Santa is getting ready to start his yearly visit to all good children. If you want to check his progress, you can do it in more than one way now. The NORAD Santa tracker, that used Google maps since 2007, have switched to Bing maps this year. Because of that, Google has created its own tools to let you keep up with the Saint Nick this Christmas.

As reported couple of days ago, Twitter has enabled the ability to download your Twitter archive, so you’ll get all your Tweets (including Retweets) going back to the beginning. You can view your Tweets by month, or search your archive to find Tweets with certain words, phrases, hashtags or @usernames, Mollie Vandor from Twitter User Services Engineering Team wrote in a blog post. You can even engage with your old Tweets just as you would with current ones.

YouTube launched a new app, called Capture, that lets iPhone users quickly create and post videos. "When you’re done filming, write a caption, select which networks you want to share to, and hit Share." official blog said.

Facebook has updated the Nearby feature on its iOS and Android mobile apps, official blog said. This feature will help you find spots your friends have recommended, checked into, or liked. In addition to discovering new places to visit, you can share what you think by rating or recommending places to your friends. Facebook said that results will get better the more people use Nearby, and that there are plans to add places info from third party services in the near future.

Selected Twitter users now have a possibility to download complete archive of their cherished thoughts by using the option hidden in the web client's settings page under the heading "your Twitter archive." Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has promised earlier this year that this feature will be available by the end of the year to all users. In an email statement provided to The Verge, a Twitter spokesperson says that "we are currently testing the ability to download your tweets with a very small percentage of users." Luckily, we are almost at the end of the year, so we don't have much to wait to see if Twitter will keep its CEO promise.

There were more than 1.2 trillion Google searches in 146 languages in 2012, traditional Google Zeitgeist report shows. The late singer Whitney Houston topped the list for search trends worldwide, following by Gangnam Style and Hurricane Sandy.

A controversial new global treaty on telecom regulations was signed today by 89 International Telecommunication Union member states despite US and western countries objections to potential regulation of the Internet, AFP reports. Fifty-five countries did not sign the treaty, said Mohamed al-Ghanim, chairman of the World Conference on International Telecommunication (WICT-12), organised by the ITU in Dubai.

The United States said today that it will not sign an international telecommunications treaty thanks to the inclusion of Internet-related provisions, PCMAG reports. "It is with a heavy heart and a sense of missed opportunities that the U.S. must communicate that it is not able to sign the agreement in the current form," U.S. Ambassador Terry Kramer told attendees of the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12).

Facebook decided to adopt the proposed updates to Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and Data Use Policy after the seven-day vote. Of the 668,872 people who voted, 589,141 recommended existing SRR and Data Use Policy should be kept. Because less than one percent of Facebook user community of more than one billion participated, the results are advisory (less than 30% of users voted).

A Russia-led coalition on Monday withdrew a proposal to give governments new powers over the Internet, This plan was opposed by Western countries in talks on a new global telecom treaty, Reuters reports. The United States, Europe, Canada and other advocates of a hands-off approach to Internet regulation want to limit the new treaty's scope to telecom companies, but Russia, China and many Arab states have been pushing to expand the treaty beyond traditional telecom operators. The Russia-led proposal could have allowed countries to block some Internet locations and take control of the allocation of Internet addresses currently overseen by ICANN, a self-governing organization under contract to the U.S. Department of Commerce.