Netflix isn’t the only company that is having their service branded on remote controls. Pandora, the online streaming radio station, has joined up with Roku to expand its brand awareness. Starting this month, the Roku 2 XD and Roku LT will ship with remotes that include a button dedicated to launching the Pandora application.

Yesterday, Facebook announced some changes to Open Graph that makes leaving Facebook to consumer content almost unnecessary. For example, we can now watch Hulu videos from within Facebook and listen to music services from MOG and Spotify. Reading is also a gigantic part of internet browsing and Facebook wants in on that too. Within the next couple weeks or so, Facebook will start flooding the internet with a “read” button that goes right alongside the popular “like” button.

Just in case you happened to be looking for a geeky way to countdown to the New Year, you may want to head on over to Google.com and hit the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button. Yup, Google has once again given us a little easter egg of sorts. Once you hit the button, you will see more »