There's been no shortage of digital egg-throwing and epithet uttering when it comes to Honda's 2010 Crosstour – this, despite the fact that essentially nobody has seen it in the metal. Thankfully, judging by these first interior shots furnished by Honda, the cabin's design will likely prove to be much less divisive.

Packing an instrument panel that looks like a straight port over from the Accord (albeit one with a different steering wheel), the Crosstour appears to inherit the sedan's lilting dashboard graphic, simple analog gauges, and available navigation system. From where we sit, for such an unconventional vehicle, the interior seems oddly anticlimactic, but at least it figures to be easy-to-use.

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the interior that we can see here is the Crosstour's cargo hold, which has a substantial-looking removable sub-floor storage box. We note that there seems to be a significant amount of wheel well intrusion into the cargo area, although we'll have to wait until EPA volume figures are released to see how this has impacted the Crosstour's utility.
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Facebook's on-site chat applet has been a big ol' success. Nearly everyone and their grandmother has at least tried it out, and I know plenty of people that don't even bother with traditional IM after using it.

But text chatting is so last decade. Heck, I could do that way back when our high school computer lab was running on token ring and Cleveland Freenet was the place to be. Why not something a bit more modern, like voice chat?

While Facebook themselves might not be in any hurry to roll out voice, Vivox is more than happy to fill the void with their own app. Vivox Voice Chat -- which is currently in private beta -- will allow Facebook users to chat with anyone on their friends list. Vivox also plans on offering call-in numbers so that non-Facebook users can interface as well. That could be a big selling point for companies using Facebook to interact with their customers.

The company already has a strong position when it comes to in-app voice, providing solutions for SecondLife, Eve Online, Sony Online Entertainment, and Electronic Arts' upcoming Command & Conquer 4.

I'll have to agree with Chris Pirillo's thoughts on the app - it's going to catch on, and it's going to take users away from Skype. With a quarter billion users spending 5 billion minutes a day on the social networking Death Star, Vivox is bound to make some serious noise.

Fan Check is a Facebook app that claims to tell you who's viewing your Facebook profile. Although it doesn't actually work, it's not a virus, as a widespread rumor would have you believe. The real malware problem comes from other applications that promise to remove the Facebook Fan Check virus, and users are falling for it after seeing the virus rumors reposted in friends' status messages. So, don't keep posting the warning about Facebook Fan Check being a virus, don't link to any sites that claim they'll fix it, and don't download or install anything from said sites yourself.

In the meantime, Facebook has removed Fan Check from the app directory. Visiting its URL just shows a note explaining that Facebook had an issue with the third-party developer and is investigating it. Although Fan Check is only "temporarily suspended," Mashable reported (before the app was shut down) that Facebook told them it had disabled some functionality it found questionable in Fan Check. Seeing who's viewing whose profiles has always been an internal feature for Facebook, and perhaps they object to an app that aims to make it publicly available.

Earlier this year, The Pirate Bay debuted a nifty little feature that allowed users to post interesting torrents to their Facebook profiles. Zuckerberg's army scrambled quickly and put the kibosh on that interaction.

Limewire recently introduced a similar feature -- which Facebook has now given a swift whack with the banhammer. Limewire's Jason Herskowit told TorrentFreak that Facebook originally demanded a number of changes to the feature, and their developers complied.
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Facebook has been pretty busy today releasing new features on the popular social networking website. In addition to launching Facebook Lite, a stripped down version of the social networking site, the company also announced a new way to connect your content to friends.

Status updates have always been one of the most popular and most used features of Facebook and today's introduction of "friend tagging" in updates is sure to make the it even more popular. Much like Twitter's @reply feature, tagging in Facebook status updates work by adding an @ symbol in front of the name of your friend or family member. Facebook recognizes this and will show you a list of your friends, making finding the right person quick and easy.
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The folks over at Facebook decided their social network's user interface needed to lose some weight. So, after a few weeks on a treadmill, Facebook Lite is now available for public preview. This new fat-free version of Facebook looks to put Twitter in its sights as far as simplicity is concerned; it's more straight-to-the-point and less "just in case you're interested."

On the inside, Facebook Lite seems to load and run significantly faster than the standard interface. It uses far less styling and scripting, and conveys simpler information to the user. In fact, after using the regular version for so long, Facebook Lite starts to feel somewhat like a mobile website. For on-the-go people, this should speed up the social networking workflow a little bit.
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Like many of us, I have a Facebook account. Like many of us, I often forget to actually go in and check it, read my notifications and keep up with what's happening in my social circle... arguably the whole point of the exercise! One of the biggest reasons for this is that - unlike Twitter - I don't keep Facebook 'in view' during my working day. You could argue that this is a positive benefit because it means less distraction, but it's primarily because despite playing with other desktop based Facebook apps (such as Tweetdeck), I haven't found a way to do so yet that works for me. Enter Facebook's desktop notifications app for Mac.
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Oh look, more evidence that Facebook is slowly trying to take over the world. The popular social networking website is adding yet another option for its mobile users. Adding to the popular mobile platform that already has applications for iPhone, Blackberry, Palm, Sony Ericsson, Windows Mobile, Widsets, INQ and LG, today they announced the release of Facebook for Android.

According to the Facebook app's page, the Android version gives users much of the same functionality found in their other mobile versions. This includes status updates from your home screen, news feed, friends, walls and user info, photo sharing and easy phone number lookup.
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TweetDeck's homepage now proudly proclaims "Bring your friends closer with Facebook and MySpace."

Yes, it's true. Now you can see updates from both of your friends who are still on MySpace right in TweetDeck. On a related note, NewEgg is running a nice Hanns-G 28" monitor for $309, which you'll probably need to in order to fit all your damn columns on a single screen at this point.
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Want a good Twitter client for your Windows system that doesn't necessitate installing Adobe Air? Check out MahTweets.

If you're willing to overlook the...er...interesting interface, MahTweets is loaded with features. It's built on .Net 3.5 and the Windows Presentation Foundation and is available as a ClickOnce installer. CPU and memory usage are very respectable, and updates are sent and received rapidly.
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