Facebook announced their new messaging platform previously only know as project titan yesterday to the world. The new Facebook messaging platform forms an unified inbox tying together your Email, IM and SMS messaged into one place.

Still not sure how this whole thing works? Check out the video bellow.

Facebook is gradually rolling out the new messaging platform to all users by mean of invites, so how do you get an invite to make use of this new next generation messaging system which includes a facebook.com email address?

Simply head over here and request an invitation.

Google Alerts is a newish addition to the Google family. Imagine getting mail about posts made about you or your company as it happens on the internet, well with Google Alerts you can.

Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.

Some other handy uses of Google Alerts include:

• monitoring a developing news story
• keeping current on a competitor or industry
• getting the latest on a celebrity or event
• keeping tabs on your favorite sports teams

Go check out Google Alerts and set up some alerts.

The Internet is, well it’s really huge. Just to show you how huge it is, the guys from Gizmodo has put together a nice Infographic to show us just how crazy huge the Internet is, and what 210 billion emails, 3 million Flickr images, 43 million gigabytes (on phones) sent on an average day really means.

Thank you to everybody that entered the G-Connect voucher give away. G-Connect was kind enough so sponsor two R50 G-Connect prepaid vouchers for me to give away.

For those of you that did not win anything, please try again next time. You can also try G-Connect’s great offerings for realy cheap prepaid unshaped internet with data carry over.

The Winners:

Congratulations to Dade & Mikesentry you are the winners of the Vouchers, I will get in contact with you guys via email soon.

WebAfrica will be testing their very own Tier-1 ADSL network within the next 30 days and they need you to help them test it.

WebAfrica is giving away 10GB adsl account to users willing to help test their brand new Tier-1 ADSL network. The accounts are absolutely free, but are limited to the first 5000 signups.

To sign up fo this free trial please visit http://www.webafrica.co.za/trial/. Login details will then be sent to you via email or sms as soon as the trial begins. Users can keep up to date on discussions surrounding the trail and receive customer support on the WebAfrica Trial Forum, available at http://forums.webafrica.co.za/networktrial.

For more information regarding the Trial visit the WebAfrica Blog. Please not that there is only 5000 signups available and already 1,843 has signed up, so hurry to get your free 10GB trial account.

I signed up for my account on Friday already and will be giving feedback throughout the trial right here on iGeek.