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Those who enjoy that strange kind of entertainment which is chatting to random strangers, might have noticed that Chatroulette has not been working for the last week. The creators announced changes and improvements, and many users wondered about the real effects.

With each new scandal, Wikileaks is becoming both more controversial and influential, and faces more attempts of breaking in or closing the site. Recently, the Swedish Pirate Party decided to support the site, and gave the owners access to safe servers. They are most probably in Sweden, but the exact location is not public.

Twitter is adding a couple of functionalities which seem to be quite useful, and closely resemble options we know from Facebook. The first one is 'you both follow' - showing the people you and another user follow, very much like the 'mutual friends' information on Facebook.

As we all noticed, social media sometimes promote people in the most bizarre and random way. People, who just happened to upload a short film on YouTube or write a Twitter update, without any thoughts of becoming famous, suddenly transform into new memes and travel all over the web.

BitTorrent has just released a new app which can be used by Twitter users to add torrent links to their tweets. Those tweets will appear with hashtags, a new one for each torrent. It's possible that other torrent sites will adopt the same idea and create similar apps, so people who ues them will have easy access to news and discussions about particular torrents.

Google Wave, about a year ago was supposed to be a hit among web communicators. It had lots of useful features, including a spellcheck and a translator, and a possibility of creating 'waves' - message chains written by multiple users and stored on a server.

Gowalla, Foursquare's biggest competitor in the field of geolocation, has announced some new features coming soon. One of them will be profile customization - creating an individual 'passport' with photos and awards, and design either chosen from the provided ones, or made entirely by the user. Such customization was not available to regular, non-premium users before.

Following the popularity of Yahoo! Answers and a couple of other pages, Facebook decided to create its own version of Questions and Answers site. The site is not active everywhere yet, but might soon become a useful addition to Facebook.

The record that Facebook has been approaching for a while is now officially beaten - there are over 500 million users! Even Mark Zuckerberg says he's surprised, and that he would never expect the site to grow that rapidly. It is indeed a milestone, as he wrote in his statement, because no other social networking site has been so wildly popular before.

For a couple of years, Orkut was the favorite social networking site in India and Brazil. Users from those countries did not care much for MySpace and Facebook. And why would they, if most of their friends were using Orkut already? At the moment, there are about 15 million Orkut users in India, and about 8 million people on Facebook. So, Orkut still wins, right?