Buzz , Google’s controversial attempt to unseat Facebook as the most mainstream of social activity stream readers, just made some much-needed changes that Facebook could learn from as well. Buzz users now have more granular control over what social interactions with content trigger an email sent to their email inboxes and explicit explanations for why each piece of content was sent by email to them.

While at the Unity booth, we ran into a few of the developers at Graveck games. You may be familiar with one of their popular iPhone games, Skee-ball. It hit the #1 paid apps spot during the holidays and is still hanging out in the top paid apps list.

The biggest story this past week on Ars was ad-blocking. You may not have realized it, but blocking ads truly hurts the websites you visit

At this year’s Game Developer’s Choice Awards, Vavle’s Gabe Newell won the Pioneer Award, and he used the opportunity to share a slide show with the crowd of developers, press, and business people. His message? DRM is not good for business

We took some time to talk with the developers at Mono Touch to discuss their software that allows developers to create iPhone native apps from C# and .NET based apps. The app helps independent and big time developers deliver games and applications to the mobile device by offering the tools to code apps that utilize the iPhone’s operating system.

We’re seeing a lot more discussion on the topic of single-sign on for SaaS environments. The issue is becoming more important as security emerges as a top concern for companies considering making the move to cloud-based environments. OneLogin is a new company that offers single sign-on, cloud-based service that allows for small and mid-sized companies to enjoy the same level of security as large enterprise companies.

Apple has made inroads into the professional market with the iPhone—the company has noted that some Fortune 500 companies have deployed them alongside or even replacing BlackBerrys. Despite this, analysis of app usage suggests that it remains a mostly personal device

Real-tme feed publishing startup Superfeedr has quietly turned on automatic location data in the feeds it republishes from around the web, we confirmed with the company today. Founder Julien Genestoux explained the feature using Twitter as his example, but the same content extraction and analysis is being done on all kinds of feeds run through the service. “If you turn geolocation on in Twitter, then your feed will include geolocation in your Tweets and we’ll just push that through,” he said.

Chinese authorities are pounding their desks over compliance with the law as Google’s C-Day approaches. The “C” is for Censorship, of course, which Google plans to lift in China sometime in the near future. The company has been in talks with China ever since the highly publicized hack earlier this year , and although the two may not be in agreement over what to censor, it seems likely that Google will keep at least some of its business in China.

Don’t worry, don’t worry, you’ll still be able to shut the sound off. We’re just not sure how you’ll do it and how quickly you’ll be able to manage it