TODAY’S BIGGEST STORIES IN SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH AND BUSINESS

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Welcome to today’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on four particular stories of interest today.

Users Can Now Log in to MySpace With Facebook

In a move that has been rumored for nearly a year, MySpace users can now log in and push information to the once-dominant social network using Facebook.

Twitter Helps Users Find More Friends With New “People” Tab

Twitter is testing out a new People tab that suggests friends, and allows users to find others to follow according to interests and relationships on other services such as Gmail, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Hotmail and Messenger.

U.S. Facebook Traffic Has Doubled in Last Year

U.S. traffic to Facebook has risen by a whopping 55% in the last year, according to data sent to us by comScore. In October 2009, Facebook had 97.37 million unique U.S. visitors. In October 2010, the world’s largest network pulled in 151.13 million U.S. uniques.

Google on a Hiring Spree

Google currently has more than 2,000 job openings listed on its site, nearly six times more than it had listed in March [via Reuters].

Further News

• In an attempt to teach the average person about the fundamental of browsers and the web, Google has released an interactive online book that explains concepts like, TCP/IP, HTML, browser extensions and malware.
• Some Nokia N8 phones have a power fault that makes them power off all by themselves, Nokia Executive Vice President Niklas Savander admitted in a video on Nokia’s official blog.
• Social media management tool HootSuite has released an iPad app that includes support for multiple Twitter, Facebook (profiles and Pages) and Foursquare accounts, message scheduling, Twitter search, geo-location and click-through statistics.
• FaceMash.com, the domain that was once host to a Facebook prototype Mark Zuckerberg built in his Harvard dorm room one October night in 2003, has sold for $30,201 on auction site Flippa.
• National Opt-Out Day is coming, and to celebrate, checkin service Loopt is planning to reward those travelers who opt out of body scans in favor of full-body pat-downs. The prize? An “iPod touches.” (Nice one, Loopt.) 

Souce: Lauren Indvik (Mashable)