Yesterday Apple didn’t just unveil a bunch of new iPods, they also unveiled the sparkling new iTunes 10, which includes a social network for music, one they call “Ping”, where artists and bands can come together, talk music, follow each other and what not. It’s a sort of MySpace/Last.FM/Twitter things, and from the looks of it, seems pretty decent. We’ll have to wait and see how it fares against its competitors.

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Google has been acquiring game developers like crazy during the last few months, and they’ve now made another acquisition: SocialDeck, which developers social games mainly for Facebook. The Canadian developer was founded in 2008, and has created several titles for Facebook and other sides, as well as iPhone games. SocialDeck will join Google’s team in Ontario, Canada.

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After months of beta testing, Digg has finally rolled out its version 4 of Digg.com. The new site features an all new look, something that wasn’t seen when the site went from v2 to v3. Digg has also added more social features, and is now almost like Twitter, in a sense where users can follow and be followed by others.

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According to a report from NPD, which tracks the video game business, a stunning 56 million Americans are and have played playing web-based social games. That’s a huge number, especially considering that social games have only taken off during the last few years. Users bought $2.2 billion worth of online goods last year, and NPD expects that number to top $6 billion in 2013.

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Location based stuff is very in these days, with Foursquare and a few other services making a name for themselves. Now Facebook has launched their own service, called Facebook Places. It basically works like other location services, where you can add your location, tag friends in locations and so on. Naturally, this brings more privacy concerns, and Facebook has already added privacy options for the new service.

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Facebook has acquire small startup Chai Labs, which offers people and companies to make simple, search friendly websites. The acquisition price is rumored at $10 million.

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According to eMarketer, ad sales on Facebook will reach a massive $1.3 billion dollars this year, compared to “just” $665 million in 2009. EMarketer also reports that Facebook rival MySpace’s ad sales will decline this year from $400 million in 2009 to $347 million.

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Twitter has officially launched its new Tweet button, which pretty much replaces the TweetMeme button which has been used across lots of sites.

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