It seems that YouTube’s traffic numbers for music videos might not be quite as accurate as many had hoped, with Warner Music Group pointing to some fairly questionable numbers.

YouTube does have its own music service...

Word comes via Cnet that Warner Music saw a massive spike in the number of unique visitors to its various different YouTube videos between over the course of December and January, with reports indicating that it had managed to more than double its traffic, seeing views around the 47 million mark in a month. Still, all might not be as well as it seems from that description…

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Facebook is moving to try to help free its users from the spam friend requests that can plague the service. Facebook is to flesh out its “ignore” option on friend requests to add more detail.

At the moment, if you choose to ignore a friend request then that request is, effectively, rejected. However, according to the folks at InsideFacebook, the social network is currently working to add options that will allow users who have opted to ignore a friend request to report it as spam/abuse or to mark it as a person you genuinely don’t know. It’s relatively simple, but fits well with Facebook’s recent statements to the effect that it’s working on “crowdsourcing” solutions to more problems.

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Facebook is moving towards a user-policed model in an attempt to make its content arrangement a little more efficient and a little easier to manage.

Word comes from InsideFacebook of the change, which sees Facebook moving towards a crowd-sourced model for conten moderation. Apparently, Facebook has created an app called Facebook Commuinity Council, which boasts as its motto, “To harness the power and intelligence of Facebook users to support us in keeping Facebook a trusted and vibrant community.”

For now, it seems that Facebook is keeping nice and quiet about it, but the social networking giant did respond to the inquiries about the nature of the Facebook Community Council, saying that,

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Word has emerged of a new vulnerability in Adobe’s Flash that seems as though it may well be entirely unpatchable, leaving web users in a fairly untenable position securitywise.

While Flash has long been criticised as something of a security risk, a large portion of that risk normally tends to be associated with the manner in which users are expected to keep a Flash player up to date in their own browsers. In that respect, if in no other, the emergence of a Flash exploit that could well prove to be entirely unpatchable is very worrying indeed. Moreover, the list of potentially exploitable sites includes names as big as Gmail, Flikr and YouTube.

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