Aardvark is a new social media question and answer website that Google has just acquired. This very addictive site will get you interactive in the topic areas that you are a pro at. Ask a question or give an answer. This site may increase your research time, why search for hours for an answer, get someone else to do the searching for you. Many users will dig to find you an answer…. it makes them look smarter.

myScoop is a new South African aggregator/social media platform that shows a lot of hope in its early stages. This brain child of Nick Duncan looks to bring exciting fresh content to South Africans by means of blog aggregation, social bookmarking and more.

Twitter and Google will be working together on a new Social Search which will include seeing Twitter updates indexed and visible on Google search engine results pages. That’s right, your tweets along side the relevant search queries.