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Back in February Facebook announced its new governance structure, which would allow people to comment for a 30-day period on proposed documents - Facebook Principles and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. The 30-day period recently ended, and Facebook is ready to take the next steps.

People who are counting the ways in which Baidu has beaten Google may soon have to make one more tally mark; reports state that the Chinese giant is testing an instant messaging service.

Google added another piece to their Frankenstein-ish productivity suite by acquiring Tonic Systems for its technology, which will allow Google to add a PowerPoint competitor to its Docs & Spreadsheets product.

The photo community site has a party planned for Saturday, March 3rd, in San Francisco to celebrate Flickr's third birthday.

The Boston, San Diego, Seattle, and Washington DC markets will have to pay for placement of job ads on their local Craigslist sites beginning October 22nd.

During the Advertising Week 2006 conference, Microsoft will debut the global launch of its digital advertising platform, which will encompass platforms from the PC to mobile devices to the Xbox gaming system.