Facebook have recently updated their privacy settings. This means that millions of users will be presented with a form when they login, showing them new recommended settings and the option to use their old settings. The thing is, Facebook seem to have forgotten basic principles of how to set out an online form. I was confused when I saw the form, and it took me a little while to work out why.

If you use Twitter and want to keep your Facebook profile updated with the occasional tweet, there is a great little application you can use called Selective Twitter Status, which will post updates to your wall only if you add the tag '#fb' to your tweet. This is a good idea if you’re twittering a lot and don't want to swamp Facebook with updates. It works with fan pages as well, which is very useful.

However, what if you have a personal Facebook profile and a public Facebook page and want to be able to update each one individually from Twitter? You could add Selective Twitter Status to both, but then all tweets that you tag with '#fb' will get posted to both, which is probably not ideal. Or, what if you want a group of twitter accounts, from individual band members maybe, to be able to update a fan page? This wouldn’t work with Selective Twitter Status as it will only look for tweets from one Twitter account. Well, the answer lies in a little creative use of the free online service Twitterfeed.

I've recently set up a Facebook fan page for my website, music, blogging, etc. I followed 'The Blogger's Guide to Facebook' online tutorial, which I recommend. It's detailed and has several step-by-step videos. While setting up my page I came across a couple of extra little tweaks that I thought I'd share in this post.

Twitterfeed now has the ability to post to your Facebook fan page wall. Just sign up, set up your feeds, link them to your Facebook account and your fan page wall will stay automatically updated with your latest blog posts etc.

I wanted to link my public Google Calendar, which has all my gigs, to Facebook. There are several applications that will import Facebook events into Google Calendar, but I wanted one that works the other way round. I found iCalendar to Event, which will take the iCal format of a public calendar and import it into Facebook events. You just need to install it, point it at the URL for your Google Calendar and all your events will be synced with your Facebook fan page.

Microsoft has been very busy of late adding cool new functionality to the Xbox 360. Hot on the heels of the recent Sky Player update comes a whole new host of social media, music and video features for the console.

The latest update gives users with an Xbox Live Gold Membership access to Twitter, Facebook and Last.fm, as well as Zune on demand videos and movies.

As far as I know, this makes the Xbox 360 unique amongst gaming consoles, with a breadth of features not seen on any other machine. So, let's dive in and discover the cool and not so cool points about the new update. The devil is, as always with software, in the detail..