Facebook is bringing its “Gift Shop” feature to a stop, the company announced today. Facebook Gifts will cease operating on August 1, although gifts you’ve received previously will remain on your Wall.

It’s a surprising move from Facebook, which stands to become a significant player in online transactions thanks to Facebook Credits. Given that gifting is a great advertisement for the benefit of making transactions on Facebook, then we assume the service is wildly unpopular. Facebook Credits perhaps doesn’t need a helping hand, either: The rapid rise of Facebook games has assured the success of the Credits scheme.

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Earlier today YouTube announced the beta launch of a TV-like viewing experience named LeanBack. This goes to show that YouTube is not only expanding its reach on mobile devices, but it has its eye on dominating the TV screen and the living room as well.

When you visit the LeanBack site, a full-screen feed, personalized for each viewer begins playing. Using your keyboard’s enter and direction keys you can navigate the feed. No need for the mouse or for entering URLs.

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BlackBerry maker RIM began rolling out its official “Twitter for BlackBerry” mobile application to users via the BlackBerry App World site. The app which works on all devices from all carriers, in all countries except China, has been in beta since April.

It supports all the features that is to be expected from a mobile Twitter application, including access to timelines, replies, messages, trends and profiles. In addition to these, it also includes several BlackBerry-specific options, such as push notifications, hotkeys and integration with core BlackBerry apps.

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Gone are the days when having separate credentials to log into each online service we use. Nowadays, you can virtually log into most sites and services using your social network’s ID.

Talking about social networks, the most popular ones out there are Facebook, Google, Yahoo, and Twitter. But how are these social network identities being used? According to the infographic below, courtesy of Gigya a social optimization platform for online business, users trust different identities on different services.

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Onbile is a free platform for creating and managing your Mobile Website version for iPhone, Android and Blackberry users.

The  application is very easy to use and in about 5 minutes we have already created a mobile version of our website in 4 steps:

• Create an account
• Customize your design
• Add / Remove sections and pages, pictures, etc…
• Paste a code in your index page

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