Who would have guessed that in the New Year, Twitter, the popular micro-blogging service, would be for the most part stable, but fall victim to hackers and phishing schemes? Well, it’s true, and it will be interesting to see if this threatens Twitter’s long-term viability as it tries to mature into a revenue-making company.

Chris Pirillo pointed out a Twitter Phishing Scam that is spreading pretty fast in the tweetosphere. Its nothing but an old phishing trick - You will probably get a DM that says “Check this cool website…” along with a link. Now when you click that the link redirects to this website: http://twitter.access-logins.com/login/. (Please Don’t click!).

Most of the readers are already using twitter as a communication medium to communicate with your friends, family, your colleagues, your online pals and it doesn’t stop there. You are also using twitter to keep track of your industry, the key people involved in the industry and companies that are important to you etc.

NORAD and Google have been best buds since 2007 in terms of Santa tracking, with the ability to track Santa via Google Earth, watch YouTube video of Santa's flight, and track him on Google Maps on NORAD's site as well. And this year, Santa has decided to tweet updates via Twitter, as well.

With so many social networking platforms available today for marketing your small business, it may be tempting to jump in and try them all. Unfortunately, that would probably end up being difficult for most small businesses to manage going forward, mostly due to limited time and resources. Although services such as MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter are all becoming popular marketing options for small businesses, the one platform that seems to be generating the most buzz for business use is Twitter.

OK, I admit, weekends are often slow tech news days, but anything about Britney Spears (at least the last few years, during her meltdown phase), is big news (OK, OK, I'm stretching things). News is, though, that Britney has joined Twitter.

Mypace is the first company to move towards "Data Portability".

When James Karl Buck and his translator, Mohammed Maree were arrested in Mahalla, Egypt while covering an anti-government protest he whipped out a quick one word blog post.

Tonight is going to be a busy night for Twitter users, with more than 20 states voting in the biggest Super Tuesday primary in US history. Twitter has made some provision in terms of moving servers to new ISP to make it easier for Twitter users to follow and discuss Super Tuesday Results and Exit Polls on its website.

Google, Jaiku, GPhone, and Orkut make an interesting mashup that can lead to a re-evaluation of rumors that Google is competing with Microsoft to buy Facebook. Microsoft is now even more interested in Facebook. Google improving its own services. The Finnis mobile giant didn't see the opportunities in Jaiku. They payed €5,7bn for US based Naviteq. Navigation is expanding the horizons of mobile services. Jaiku is a perfect match for Google's next new thing -- the rumored gPhone!