Social Media Updates: What's the Latest

From Pinterest getting a new look to Instagram being brought to Android, the Next Web does a roundup of all the major happenings this past week in the world of social media. Get your geek on.

"With count them not one but two acqui-hires making social media headlines this week, over at Twitter and Google, there’s been quite the bit of buzz, and of course just as many guessing games, about what Twitter is going to do with Posterous, and how Kevin Rose will contribute to Google."

The Christian community gets the opportunity to get one last look at Pope Shenouda III as his body remains in the papal chair, a.k.a 'the Patriarchal Throne', in full papal garments. Christians followers flooded the church to say their last goodbyes.

"According to Christian Orthodox rituals the late pope after death will be seated on his papal chair or as it is called 'The patriarchal throne” wearing his full papal golden robe for three days before the funeral. His body is being prepared for this through some sort of mummification I suppose.'

Naturally, the death of Pope Shenouda III has set in the motion the process of choosing who will take his place. This Middle East-based blogger discusses the process and politics of selecting the future Coptic Orthodox pope.

"Thousands of mournful Copts from across Egypt continue to make their way to their main Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo, hoping to catch a glimpse of the body of Pope Shenouda III, who died Saturday afternoon aged 88 after 40 years spent leading the Middle East’s largest Christian community."

As far as the Lebanese are concerned, say what you will, but leave Beirut alone! Once named the 'Paris of the Middle East', this historical city is bit of touchy subject. So, no surprise that Mustapha from Lebanon has highlighted this research index from The Economist showing Beirut in a less than positive light.

Shifting from being the worst city in the world to being one of the best, Beirut has been nominated to be one of the '7 wonder cities' of the world. What Elie from Lebanon wants to know is that why can't this competition find anything better to highlight than Beirut's nightlife.

"Do we have nothing else to brag about in Beirut apart from Skybar and other clubbing places? If that’s the case, then we either don’t know Beirut or we simply disregard the parts of the city that are not hyped enough."

In celebration of the Occupy Wall Street's six-month anniversary, the Desertpeace blog highlights this photo essay that displays the essence of the movement.