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A new virus is spreading through Facebook. The Koobface -- a worm designed specifically to spread over social-networking sites -- is blasting spam messages out to Facebook members. The motive is to enable hijacking and click fraud.

This has been the year TV networks finally embraced the Web. As 2008 wraps up, nearly every broadcaster posts its shows online within half a day of first airing them on TV. And the audience for such programming is growing, especially among desirable younger demographics. Twelve percent of teens and 11 percent of 18- to 34-year-olds watch online TV at least once a week, as compared with 4 percent of 35- to 64-year-olds, according to Knowledge Networks.

YouTube, the biggest online video Web site, has been missing much of the action as studios move full-length TV shows and movies to the Web. But this may be changing: YouTube announced Monday that movie studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) will show some of its archive on the popular video site.

The fare will be free for viewers, accompanied by ads. Initial titles from MGM include episodes of the American Gladiators TV series, full-length films such as Bulletproof Monk and The Magnificent Seven, and clips from movies like Legally Blonde.

Rolling Out Content Slowly

Type "buttermilk pancakes" into Google, and among the top three or four search results you will find a link to a recipe, complete with a photo of a scrumptious stack, from a site called Knol, which is owned by Google.

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert fans can now watch their Comedy Central shows until the cows come home. Video site Hulu.com has announced that the two politically oriented, "fake news" shows will be available on that site.

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report are among the first TV shows on the Hulu site that did not originate with the site's two parent companies, NBC Universal and News Corp. The Comedy Central network is owned by Viacom.

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