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That bullying boy in kindergarten, tugging on a girl's pigtails until she cries? He's got it bad for her. He just can't express it yet. Similarly, Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG) Eric Schmidt turned heads by teasing Twitter during this week's Morgan Stanley technology conference.

I've been using Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG) GrandCentral service for a couple of years now, so it's good to see it finally coming out of its little shell. Rechristened as Google Voice, GrandCentral is about to simplify a whole lot of address books.

Over the weekend, SeesmicSeesmic reviewsSeesmic reviews announced their own desktop application for Facebook, as well as plans to integrate Status Updates into their own TwitterTwitter reviewsTwitter reviews client – TwhirlTwhirl reviewsTwhirl reviews. Today, popular Twitter client TweetDeckTweetDeck reviewsTweetDeck reviews is beginning testing on a new version of its software that includes integration with Facebook as well.

A popular topic at the moment is the increasing importance of Twitter as a marketing and traffic generation tool. In the UK Twitter has been growing rapidly during the last 12 months and many people are now realising that micro-blogging is quickly becoming a very useful social media marketing tactic.

Being part of a botnet is no fun. Your computer becomes your worst enemy, watching everything you do, collecting all of your secrets, and then delivering all that data to the bot-herder; the person who originated the network. But what does it really mean to be part of a botnet, and is there anything that can you do about it?

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