While Tal Alter was developing a Facebook application, he had stumbled upon some code called VideoChat. He said that VideoChat “appears to have everything needed to introduce video chatting functionality.” The object has several properties that refers to Skype or having the ability to chat with Skype users. You may even be able to associate your Skype username with your Facebook profile. Last month Skype had announced Facebook support for their desktop software. [GreenAnySite Blog]

WikiLeaks had obtained cables about the U.S. State Department and provided newspapers around the world access to the leaked documents. WikiLeaks would have published the documents also, but they are currently under a denial of service attack. The New York Times already posted a lot of the leaked information. One of the most interesting pieces of information in the 251,287 leaked documents is that there was a massive computer attack on Google and other companies.

Researchers at Harvard Medical School have been able to reverse the aging process in mice. The experimental treatment conducted on mice leads scientists to believe that it is possible to achieve similar feats on humans or slow down the aging process.

MapCrunch.com lets you see any random Google Street View location around the world. When I tried it out, it got pretty addictive. MapCrunch starts out by showing you the “View of the Day.” After that you can select any country and view any Street View location. [via Reddit]

General Motors Company (NYSE:GM) had the world’s biggest IPO last week after underwriters bought additional shares. The added shares that were purchased had helped GM slide past Agricultural Bank of China’s $22.1 billion IPO this past July. The underwriters were led by Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and Citigroup Inc. These underwriters had exercised their full option of on an additional 71.7 million common shares that were worth $2.37 billion.

The Symbian Foundation said that they are shutting down their websites and the online distribution of their source code as of December 17, 2010. Nokia will be taking over the development of Symbian and will package code either on DVD drives or USB drives that developers need to order through them. A packaged kit is not expected to arrive until January 31st and there may be a shipping cost associated with it.

Yankeyan has been able to hack the Microsoft Kinect to make it work with a lightsaber. And now he has at it again by making it work with Super Mario Brothers. When he jumps, Mario jumps. When he runs, Mario runs. When he ducks down, Mario can do down a pipe or duck. Check out the video below:

Blogherald.com has put together an interesting infographic about how e-mail works, the history of e-mail, who the most popular web-mail providers are, and information about spam. Check it out below.