Mobile:
The big mobile story of the week was undoubtedly the leak of the new iPhone, slated to be announced in June 2010. Apple has traditionally been able to keep product launches safely hidden from the public, very few individuals outside of Apple have access to prototypes so it’s major news when one sneaks into the wild before Steve Job launches it on stage.

The gadget blog Gizmodo got it’s hands on Apple’s latest creation this week, evidently claiming they found it “lost in a bar”. Given the dubious explanation, there has been a lot of speculation this week as to whether or not this could be the real thing. After tearing the phone down to its basic components, many geeks are convinced it really is the next iPhone.

What do you think? Is this just another Apple PR stunt or is this the end of Apple’s era of secrecy?

Social:
Facebook had it’s major F8 developer conference this week and the social networking giant made some changes which will effect how brands reach and engage their audience using the social network.

The biggest announcement was OpenGraph, Facebook’s promise to connect every website on the planet. By providing websites with easy access to Facebook’s login and Like button, Facebook can now link users experiences from all over the web. Martin Bryant from TheNextWeb paints an interesting picture of a future Facebook-enabled internet, “Imagine the potential. Amazon can recommend films for you to buy based on what you’ve been looking up on IMDB, Pandora in turn can play music you’ll like based on your friends’ Amazon purchases.”

The Facebook-enabled internet will have all of our social interactions tied together which is nothing new. What will be new is the complexity of user data control, Facebook’s OpenGraph  will be opt-out meaning that Facebook’s integration with websites everywhere will become increasingly automated.