Finally, both Google and Facebook are being pursued through the courts by Winksite, which alleges that Facebook Mobile and Google Buzz are infringing their patent relating to how mobile phone users access content on social networks. The company wants cash, and an immediate order to prevent the two networks using their invention. SOCIAL STATS ... Consumers are not terribly keen on paywalls, it’s fairly safe to say: an enormous 81 percent say they’d plump for online ads if that meant free content, according to Pew Research’s latest poll. Welcome to eModeration's round-up of all that is intriguing, alarming or odd in the world of social media, compiled by Kate Williams.

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Following predictably poor Nielsen figures for MySpace in January – it now trails Facebook in the US by a factor of 1:2 – co-presidents Mike Jones and Jason Hirschorn plan a rapid roll-out of new content-discovery and sharing features, which they hope will lure back users and reverse the site’s continuing decline. An intriguing new element has emerged in these ongoing paid-content shenanigans – film critic Roger Ebert has paywalled – well, himself. Welcome to eModeration's round-up of all that is intriguing, alarming or odd in the world of social media, compiled by Kate Williams.