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Weekly internet update

With SEO expert Pascal Fintoni

The news: Good news for those concerned with online security; Channel 4 reports that Facebook are reviewing their privacy settings to allow users greater control over which of their friends can see their personal details. Although the business implications of this are not yet known, it is good to see social networks giving greater control to their users.

Computer Weekly has created a great resource to help internet users achieve a faster broadband connection. Broken down into 6 steps, there are some great tips for increasing speeds without revolutionising your existing connection.

Yahoo! are to launch Flickr Video next month, a clips site aimed at competing with number one site YouTube. Yahoo! has been quick to state that Flickr Video will not replace or compete directly with Yahoo Video.

Greenpeace have released figures that show how badly Microsoft is trailing in its attempts to make their business greener. There is better news for mobile makers Samsung and Nokia, while computer specialists Dell and Toshiba also look to be making positive strides to clean up their acts.

eMarketer reports some interesting facts this week about the mainstay of emarketing; the humble email. As well as stating the obvious - that permission based emails generate a better response from recipients, there is also some interesting information making a connection between number of links present and popularity.

Plug of the week: Only a few days of voting remain for the North East Digital Awards, and your vote could still make a big difference to the projects looking to receive awards. Visit the website and examine the entries, but don’t forget to vote for you favourite before you leave!

Story of the week: AOL appears to be on something of a spending spree. Not long after the search engine’s acquisition of social networking site Bebo, rumours of a £90 million bid for KickApps have been reported by Techcrunch. KickApps is a social network and widget creation tool and its purchase represents a good move by a company often regarded as in the shadows of Yahoo and Google.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .