Google Groups and various Neo4j communities have been actively sharing news, updates, and resources related to the graph database. Heroku released a web version of their December newsletter featuring a @neo4j tutorial and an @urbandictionary case study. The OpenShift community also discussed using graphs on the cloud, with a blog post and screencast coming soon. TinkerPop celebrated its new release of the open-source graph stack #graphdb #nosql. Neo4j.rb 1.3.1 was released, along with several updates to the project, including the creation of a Ruby DSL for Cypher. A new version of Neo4jPHP 0.0.6-beta was also released, featuring fulltext indexing and named Cypher/Gremlin parameters. The Neo4j-Python community shared updates on neo4django, PynIT, and py2neo, with several new releases and demos. Spring Data Neo4j introduced an intro webinar and showcased its capabilities through a video on YouTube. Vaadin shared a sample project demonstrating the integration of Neo4j with their framework. The community also discussed various educational resources, upcoming events, conferences, and job opportunities related to Neo4j and graph databases.