Gossip sheet: Should we expect news from Facebook this week?
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Signs are pointing to a potentially big announcement out of the company this week, but the notoriously tight-lipped social network isn't providing any answers.
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A deal between Facebook and either  Google Inc  or Microsoft Corp  is expected to  be announced in the next 24 to 48 hours, The New York Post  reported on its Web site on Wednesday, citing unnamed sources.
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All the latest gossip from the world of television.
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A new feature allows users the chance to make the news.
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Also: Seeking readers via online 'book trailer'. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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TechWeb - The daily news digest includes photos, reviews, links to ads, and Web sites and charts showing candidates' popularity on social networking sites.
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A few notes on the NY Times outline... 1. I switched it back to the frequency sort, having tried it as an alphabetized list for about 18 hours. Now I want to see what happens with it flipped around so the most frequent keyword bins appear first. 2. Not sure, but I think it will empty out later this afternoon, as yesterday's stories expire, and before tomorrow's stories ship.  3. It seems that at least some people have bookmarked the site and are refreshing it. If so, I'm glad -- because that's the way these pages are most useful, they tell you something about what changed. Remember this is "news" not olds. 4. The outline view is something like TechMeme for the Times news flow. Not exactly because the keywords are assigned by people. Unseen news mavens. Where do they reside? Are they on the upper floors or in the basement of the NY Times skyscraper on 8th Ave, or somewhere inbetween? Maybe they work out of their homes. My mind wants to visualize these people, but I have nothing to cling to. It's not an algorithm that's determining where things sort out, it's people. Otherwise known as editors? Or are they librarians? 5. Do you bookmark the outline or the river? I'm a river guy for sure. I wonder about other people. 6. Francine Hardway twitted at me: "Times River is awesome on my iPhone! Was reading it while waiting for eye surgery and it was very distracting." Amen. That's the big secret. I wish there were a way to get everyone to look at the river on their cell phone. Eyes would open. 7. Thinking about integrating the two views, cross-relating them. Not sure exactly what I'll try first. That's why I wanted to let it settle in for a bit before moving in a other directions. 8. Of course, I know that if this ever becomes a "real" product, the user is going to control the view he or she wants to be the default. But for right now I'm experimenting. I want to see what people think. Enough people were asking for an alpha view that I wanted to see what would happen when I gave it to them, and if anyone would scream. Screaming isn't a bad thing, it's data.
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Views you can use for clues to tomorrow's news.
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The New York Times has integrated Social News and Media sharing by adding &#8220;Digg This&#8221;, Facebook, and Newsvine (big props for Newsvine here) sharing buttons on their news stories. From Natali Del Conte at TechCrunch: &#8220;Although you could always manually add The Times stories to news sharing sites such as Digg and Newsvine before, the capability to [...]
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Also: Flirting, online and off. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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By Frank Michael Russell, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun. 17--Here's some news you may have missed last week, based on staff and wire reports.
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TMZ.com usually traffics in salacious celebrity gossip. So its readers may have been confused when the site posted an item on Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg.
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Food, fake fights, and finance will color in the week that lies ahead.
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Facebook last week started quietly rolling out "Social Ads" -- advertisements featuring the names and profile photos of your friends. Critics say that users aren't adequately notified that their photos may appear in these ads.
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Also: What your phone knows about you. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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Answer yes or no. This new social-networking site is based upon your responses to all kinds of questions
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A page on the official developers' wiki hints that the social network will be offering data storage space for applications hosted on the Facebook Platform.