We’re back with a new episode of TC Cribs , and it’s featuring one of the most tricked-out offices yet: YouTube. Yes, the world’s biggest archive of cute cat videos (among other things) invited us to take a stroll through their halls, which are brimming with nifty artifacts, viral video memorabilia, and gnomes. A lot of gnomes

Facebook has begun notifying Page admins that it will be removing the Discussions tab application from all Pages on October 31, 2011.

By now, we all know that the US Department of Justice filed an antitrust suit to block the AT&T/T-Mobile merger.

Hitwise just published a new study examining how much time people living in different countries spend on Facebook. Singaporeans actually spend the longest on the social network, with an average of 38 minutes and 46 seconds per session, while people living in Brazil spend less than half that with an average of 18 minutes and 19 seconds per Facebook session for August 2011. Singapore is followed by New Zealand (30 mins 31 sec); Australia (26 mins 27 sec); the UK (25 mins 33 sec); and the US (20 mins 46 sec).

Since Facebook combined the Top News and Most Recent tabs into a single, hybrid news feed last week, we’ve been watching for fluctuations in the volume of Page posts and other content types seen on the site’s home page. A study by EdgeRank Checker shows that impressions per post are down 33% but that Likes and comments are up 17%.

Aloha! You know where I wish I were right now? That’s right, Maui! You know who else is in Maui? Some of the Google Social team.

Oh, Microsoft! You are so cunning.

Editor’s note : This guest post is written by  Tom Anderson , the former President, founder and first friend on MySpace. You can now find Tom on  Facebook ,  Twitter , and  Google+ .

Location-based service Loopt has been allowed its first patent, and it could be a big one. The patent, as described, seems relevant to numerous existing products, including Google’s Latitude

Last week we ran a giveaway for one whole week, giving away a DROID Bionic . A huge congratulations to Scott Leither for winning last week’s DROID Bionic! Since the giveaway was so popular, we wanted to give all of you another shot