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On today’s digits: Google+, Google’s new social network, jumps to 20 million users. Plu

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In a post on YouTube’s official blog, Google’s video service announced today the launch of a video experiment titled, “Life in A Day,” an attempt to team up with users to film various moments during this coming July 24th. These moments can range from, “a neighborhood soccer match,” says the post, “or the extraordinary–a baby’s first steps.” In addition, if your clip tickles YouTube’s fancy it has a chance to be added to the final documentary edited by Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland, One Day in September) and executive produced by Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Black Hawk Down). The final product wil

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Facebook rolled out changes to its privacy policy Wednesday after controversy over features that made users’ data more open. Users will begin seeing the changes over the next week, the company said.

Reuters

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg describes the new privacy policies.

Facebook says users will see a notice about the changes when they log in to their home page, so it should be relatively easy for people to know where to go if they want to see or change their settings. I

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From China RealTime Report:

China has the attention of RockYou, one of the earliest developers of widgets for social networks. But it isn’t China’s nearly 400 million Internet users that are the main draw—it’s the nation’s developers.

Associated Press

A Chinese flag flies near Tienanmen gate.

RockYou CTO and co-founder Jia Shen said at a social game summit in Beijing Friday that the company, which plans to expand its presence in Asia, is “actively” looking at acquisition targets in China rather than more users because social games are less lucrative here than in other markets, mostly due to a lack of openness of Chinese social networking sites.

According to Shen, companies that operate social networking Web sites in China, including Tencent Holdings Ltd., have huge user numbers, but demand an average of 40% to 50% of revenue from the games distributed on their Web sites, or more than is standard in other markets. And though a

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