You may have noticed your facebook wall got a little less colorful yesterday, since Facebook decided to purge all accounts with "cosplay" in the profile name. Some users were warned, but not all. Friend lists, photos, and memories have been sucked down into the aether.

Google's Tuesday launch of its new social network Google+ has had the Internet abuzz (not to be confused with the clunky Google Buzz communication platform that never really took off, was pretty much forgotten about, and apparently still exists).

Buzz didn't turn out to be the Twitter-killer some initially hailed it as, and its precursor Google Wave didn't really do much other than confuse people