Unless you’ve spent the past few weeks talking to a beaver instead of logging into Facebook, you’ll have noticed many people ─maybe even you─ have changed their profile pictures to that of a favorite cartoon character.

Over a hundred comments and dozens of likes. That’s a record for a link posted on Google Wave’s fan page on Facebook! Not that they’ve announced an exciting new feature, or linked to a tutorial that makes their product comprehensible. No, they seem to have posted a link to a Flickr account with pictures of a naked Asian girl under the shower. Ouch!

Facebook today improved its search with the addition of a drop-down list that instantaneously appears while you’re typing in your search query at the top search box. It will display people, events, groups and pages you’re connected with, but “also the connections of your friends and globally relevant results”.

A new batch of Facebook viruses is currently annoying thousands of users of the social network. One of these pests is spreading through the link: http://youtube.torrent-galaxy.in/

By adding Google Analytics to Facebook pages, admins get access to additional statistical data about all visitors (and not just fans) such as traffic sources, keyword searches, and much more.

Google rules the Internet, but Facebook is quickly gaining ground and destined to become your home on the web. And Google Buzz is not the only way the search engine giant is trying to obstruct Facebook’s road to Internet domination. We discovered that the search engine’s is backbiting on the social network through it’s autocomplete feature.

Today in a galaxy not so far, far away…
I’m not going into much detail on this one ─it would spoil all the fun─ but to celebrate the release of their exclusive Star Wars collection, sports apparel manufacturer adidas has built a Facebook application that lets you blow up yourself or your Facebook friends using the deadliest weapon of every galaxy, …

In a move to overtrump king Google, Microsoft has announced that it will add real time Twitter and Facebook status updates to Bing’s search results. Launched last May, Bing is Microsoft’s latest venture in the search engine industry where Google reigned since most of us were still squeezing spots.

In this 9-minute video, 19-year-old Byron aka iHackYourTech reviews the top 3 Facebook applications for Google’s Android platform. Two of them are free, the third one is priced only 99 cents on the Android Market. Find out which app is best for your G1 phone…