In the past week Facebook has made some major changes. Some of them include stripping away at features and some of them include making the web more social.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has released two new commercials on YouTube to show off extensions and translations. The two new ads were created by ad agency BBH. Below are the two videos. I recommend watching both of them. They are both very creative.

Salesforce.com, Inc. (NYSE:CRM) has acquired crowdsourcing company Jigsaw for $142 million. Sugar CRM is a partner with Jigsaw, but directly competes against Salesforce.com.

Gizmodo editor Greg Lowen revealed more Apple stuff.

If you didn’t realize this yet, this video is a parody. [Buzzfeed]

Simulmedia has raised $8 million from Time Warner Investments. Other investors include Avalon Ventures and Union Square Ventures. Simulmedia has raised a total of $12 million.

Below is a list of the top 20 Firefox add-ons that are useful for web developers.  The add-ons include toolbars, SQL tools, image editors, debuggers, etc.

20. WebRank Toolbar

WebRank Toolbar is a toolbar that shows the Google PageRank, Alexa, Compete.com, and the Quantcast numbers of the website you are looking at.  It also shows how many pages of the website is being indexed on the Google, Bing, and Yahoo! search engine. [Link]

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is celebrating the one million mark for consoles sold in Australia and New Zealand. In order to celebrate the achieve, they have designed a custom Halo Xbox console. The console features a Halo character shooting the console. It was designed by Richard Taylor and the Weta Workshop. The console is currently being auctioned on eBay to raise funding for the David Peachy Foundation. Microsoft will also match up to $10,000 for the winning bidder. Currently there are about 29 bids and it is up to AU $750. [UberGizmo]

Twitter has over 105 million registered users and sees 300,000 new people register every day. This infographic contains additional interesting facts about Twitter based on some numbers that co-founder Ev Williams announced at the Chirp conference. The infographic was designed by Gerardo Obieta (@G_Obieta). [TechEBlog]