The leaves are changing, you’re likely digging through attics and trunks to find your tucked away winter sweaters, and the days are getting shorter and shorter. If you’ve spent the last month enjoying the gorgeous change in weather — or have missed a lot due to the freak snowstorm that knocked out power in the Northeast — no need to fret. Here’s a recap of some things you may have missed in the past month.

Facebook

Facebook now featuring translation tool (via Mashable): The social media giant now allows users to translate comments left in other languages, but only on Facebook Pages, not profiles, at this time.

Facebook introduces “Talking About This” metric for Pages (via Mashable): Facebook adds a new analytics tool to Pages, allowing users to measure activity related to a Page, such as liking, commentating, or sharing a Page post or content. The concept behind the new metric is Pages with high “Talking About This” measurements are indicative or more compelling Page content.

Google to begin indexing Facebook comments (via ReadWriteWeb): Facebook users who are using Facebook’s commenting platform can now have their comments indexed by Google. The comments will be crawled and ranked in Google’s results pages.

YouTube

YouTube now has all-politics channel (via Mashable): YouTube now offers a page dedicated to all things politics just a year away from the next presidential election. In addition to featuring campaign ads and parodies, it will also function as a social video tracker for the election, measuring each candidate’s YouTube views or subscribers.

YouTube set to unveil 100 celebrity channels (via Mashable): Celebrities including Ashton Kutcher, Rainn Wilson, and Amy Poehler are going to be a few of the celebrities who will have a YouTube channel featuring their own original content. The channels will feature about 25 hours of new content and are set to go live next year.

Google+

Google+ allows pseudonyms (via Mashable): After months of controversy and complaining, Google+ has finally decided to allow users to use pseudonyms and nicknames instead of their real names.

Dalai Lama hosts Google+ hangout (via ReadWriteWeb): The spiritual leader hosted a live hangout with Archbishop Desmond Tutu as part of the inaugural Desmond Tutu Peace Lecture in Cape Town.

Twitter

Blether allows Twitter users to have private chats outside of DMs (via Mediabistro) Twitter users can now have private chats with one or more users by mentioning them in a tweet and then starting the tweet with “!b”. Users can use the feature with any Twitter users, not just people you are following.

Thanks to iOS5, Twitter triples daily signups (via ReadWriteWeb): Many iPad, iPhone and iPod users who downloaded the new operating system were given a new incentive to sign up for the microblogging service, considering the fact Twitter is directly tied to the operating devices of these Apple products. While it remains to be seen whether they will continue to experience a spike in traffic, Twitter received three times as many signups the day iOS5 was released compared to average signups.

Tumblr

Obama meets Tumblr (via Mashable): President Obama has joined the world of Tumblr, serving up (you guessed it) politically minded posts, with special attention paid to his re-election campaign. You can find his account here.