Look­ing for a cure to stop those social media data loss night­mares? Social­Safe might come in handy: the Adobe Air pro­gram grabs your pho­tos, friends list and wall and it even keeps track of all the changes in your con­tact list.

Thanks to Bob Kings Com­ment Rat­ings plu­gin, all datadirt read­ers can now like or dis­like any com­ment: just use the new thumbs-up / thumbs-down icons — should be pretty self-explanatory.

Thomas W. Mal­one, found­ing direc­tor of MIT’s Cen­ter for Col­lec­tive Intel­li­gence, talks about his research, the impact of the inter­net on global com­mu­ni­ca­tion and our chang­ing notion of privacy.

Many Face­book users are afraid of shar­ing infor­ma­tion with peo­ple they don’t know with­out even real­iz­ing it. This tools might come in handy.

form­spring is the name of the lat­est q+a game in social media: think twit­ter, but with­out the 140-char-limit. formspring.me is all about qeustions and answers and every­body just seems to love it, so I put together a back­ground tem­plate for your brand­ing pleasure.

Much ado about face­book, plenty of twit­ter clients reviewed: it’s been a busy week in social media land — again!

Face­book will soon allow unique nick­names for per­sonal pro­file and page URLs — and in this case, the early bird does catch the worm.

From gen­der dif­fer­ences to sud­den twit­ter deaths the last week was a joyride of emo­tions — blog­ging busi­ness as usual.

Twit­ter is expe­ri­enc­ing secu­rity issues, the blo­gos­phere finally gets to know the 3 rules of the inter­net and the new year inevitably takes its course — wel­come to the sec­ond weekly round-up of 2009.

Every­body is going social these days — Google and Face­book launch new ser­vices which make a suc­cess of OpenID even more unlikely.

Monty Python launches their own Youtube chan­nel, Face­book is try­ing to bring some cus­tomers to its mar­ket­place and Seth is remind­ing blog­gers of the fact that trust is vital to any sus­tain­able relationship.