“ The rules of media have completely been broken ,” according to Say Media CEO Matt Sanchez . Because we’re no longer living in a world where print media is sold on a newstand and video media is only presented through cable television, everything is changing. And as old companies have to adopt to that change, there are opportunities for new empires to sprout up

In a week marked by Twitter and Facebook service fails, Google just became the third huge web service to experience turbulence, with primarily Brazilian social network Orkut being hit hard today by the “Bom Sabado” javascript worm, which infected user streams with a scrap with the text “Bom Sabado” and then automatically signed up those users for groups. As Orkut currently has over 52 million active users worldwide and over 34 billion pageviews each month it’s no surprise that “Bom Sabado” (“Good Saturday”) is currently trending on Google. While neither Google or Orkut has responded to our inquiries on the extent of the virus or whether it is still happening, we’re hearing that the Orkut security team is trying to resolve the issue, and the best way currently to avoid the bug is to avoid Orkut entirely according to poweruser ghafoortabish who explains how to avoid the virus

There are fewer than 48 hours to go before TechCrunch Disrupt kicks off, and we know you’re all aching to see some of the industry’s best investors, entrepreneurs and startups take the stage.

Premiering at  New York Film Festival  yesterday and coming to theatres October 1st, the world’s first Hollywood movie about the founding of a social network can now also claim the bragging rights of a solid 100 score on movie review aggregator Metacritic as well as a 9.9 score on Rotten Tomatoes. While both the Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes sample sizes are currently small, The Social Network joins The Godfather and Lawrence of Arabia (re-release) as one of the universally highest rated movies of all time. But will critical acclaim put butts in seats?

We’ve all had a pretty long week dealing with all this, for lack of a better term, AngelGate stuff .

Canada Ends Facebook Probe, Govts Work on Privacy – The Canadian government’s probe into issues surrounding the way third parties gather Facebook user data has wrapped up . Meanwhile, the privacy agencies of governments around the world — U.S., Canada, several in Europe, Australia and New Zealand —are working to launch the Global Privacy Enforcement Network to help them facilitate international enforcement of privacy laws

A few months ago, Sarah wrote about group-buying travel site Jetsetter.com , arguing that it solves a ‘big problem’ in hotel booking. After the post went live, she received plenty of feedback suggesting other sites to look at, but one came up time and time again: Oyster.com

Buried in the San Francisco Chronicle’s story about Zynga’s massive new office space is this little nugget: The Zynga deal occurs as significant portions of South of Market are filling up with biotechnology and other new media companies, like technology blog TechCrunch, video-streaming site MetaCafe and microblogging service Twitter Inc.

It appears that Salesforce has just acquired enterprise chat startup Activa Live. We’ve confirmed the acquisition with Salesforce.

And I thought our new office was big. It turns out, we have nothing on Zynga , the social gaming juggernaut that is moving practically right next door