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The ReadWriteWeb blog reports on mobile Internet use. The most interesting finding? 2/3rds of mobile Internet use is on the iPhone.

The subject of a recent CITS faculty lecture, Internet TV is growing in popularity.

This week ComScore released the top 10 list of video websites. Unsurprisingly, YouTube/Google was the most popular. But it also appears that many of the official sites, like Fox and Viacom, as well as Hulu are doing quite well.

http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090302/web-video-winners-youtube-hulua...

Who visits the homepage of a candy?

Skittles made a bold marketing decision and changed the Skittles's homepage, http://www.skittles.com/, to be a view of all Twittering about Skittles.

Will this result in more purchasing and eating of Skittles though?

Last week, Miriam Metzger presented on Privacy 2.0, privacy concerns of university students on Facebook.

The Santa Barbara Independent covered the event.

Couldn't make it? See the video here.

South By Southwest (SXSW) is a set of interactive, film, and music festivals and conferences that take place every spring in Austin, Texas.
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Many of the most exciting social media applications made their debuts at this conference. Also the best and brightest thinkers about technology, new media and social media come together to talk about anything and everything.

The Mobile Challenge is an innovation competition that encourages project submissions to develop mobile tools that help advance human rights research, documentation, advocacy and outreach. NetSquared community voters will vote for the top 10 projects, who will all present at our upcoming human rights and technology conference in May. The winners will be selected by a panel of judges at the closing of the conference, who will receive $15k, $10k, and $5k respectively, along with technical assistance to develop their tools.

Creative Commons has officially launched a Web tool to aid content creators who want to publish material under the highly permissive CC0 license, which allows for ALL rights to be waived. The tool, which has been under development for over a year, has now reached 1.0 status and is accessible from the Creative Commons site.

The Consumerist reports:

"Teresa says that she was harassed by other players and later suspended from XBOX Live because she identified herself as a lesbian in her profile. When she appealed to Microsoft, she says they told her that other gamers found her sexual orientation "offensive.""

And Microsoft confirmed that it is its official policy to suspend such users.

Replying to All, a major email gaffe, received some attention recently after a reply-all mail storm took down the email server at the Department of State. The offending diplomat shouldn't feel too bad as she or he is in good company. The CEO of Spirit Airlines meant to reply to an employee about a customer complaint, but accidentally replied all (with some harsh words) to the customer.

Three major privacy stories concerning Facebook have come out over the past week:

First, a Calvin College student has been suspended for one year over a Facebook message he allegedly posted about his ex-girlfriend. The college cited Mr. Harris, a sophomore, for violating technology and conduct codes at the institution, which refers to itself as “distinctively Christian.” [CHE]

And second, Facebook launched new Terms of Service this week and then took them back.