Earlier this week 4chan took down the MPAA website and now the group known as “Anonymous” has taken down the RIAA website as part of “Operation Payback.”

Even though Facebook hosts the highest number of total photo uploads, Flickr has hit a major milestone themselves. Flickr now hosts over 5 billion photos. Flickr was acquired by Yahoo! in March 2005.  ”Flickr members upload more than 3,000 images every minute, and yesterday yeoaaronuploaded the five billionth photo. Thanks to yeoaaron and all our members for helping us reach 5 billion!” said Flickr on their company blog.

Facebook has hired Erick Tseng as the VP of mobile products. Tseng used to work at Google as the senior product manager at Android. It is very likely that Tseng will be working with on Facebook’s deeper mobile integration I wrote about earlier tonight. [BusinessInsider]

Earlier today TechCrunch reported that Facebook is building a mobile phone “or rather, they’re building the software for the phone and working with a third party to actually build the hardware.” I think the latter is true because starting a mobile device manufacturing division seems like a business that would not make sense for Facebook.

Snoop Dogg, LL Cool J, and Zachary Levi are playing each other in Halo: Reach in this Funny or Die viral video. Check out who makes a cameo at the end (video is after the jump):

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has approved an application that is powered by Google Voice. This is interesting because Apple approved Google Voice applications at first, but then pulled them off later. This was because these applications were “duplicating features that the iPhone comes with,” such as the Dialer, SMS, etc.

Great news for Antoine Dodson! Even though people were making fun of him for the way he talked during a news interview, Antoine made a good amount of money from the video and was able to move his family out of a dangerous part of town.

Cuil was a search engine that was founded in January 2005, but publicly launched in 2008. Cuil raised $33 million in venture capital between 2007 and 2008 after telling investors that their website indexing costs would be one-tenth the cost of Google’s costs. This was based on new search architecture and relevance methods.