June 23, 2008
Facebook Map
My Facebook friends, mapped out using the Nexus app.
Major constellations are marked -- improvisers sure like their own, huh?
April 25, 2008
January 27, 2008
Booksthatmakeyoudumb
Comparing SAT scores with colleges’ most popular books according to Facebook. Guess where the Bible ends up on that scale…
January 13, 2008
Techdirt: Hasbro Sues Scrabulous For Being Too Scrabble-ish
This could be interesting to watch — In my social network, Scrabulous is *the* killer Facebook app. If it were to disappear, would it hurt Facebook?
December 3, 2007
Facebook’s Misrepresentation of Beacon’s Threat to Privacy: Tracking users who opt out or are not logged in. - CA Security Advisor Research Blog - CA
Even if you’re using Facebook’s privacy settings to opt-out of their new “Beacon” “service”, the info is still getting sent to Facebook who may or may not be gathering it. Thank gawd for Adblock.
November 6, 2007
Facebook News Network - CollegeHumor video
“All the News Feed that’s fit to print.’ (And features my chum Jill Bernard’s status in the crawl — clearly I’m a friend-in-law to the video’s makers.)
November 3, 2007
Coova.org : Facebook; Social WiFi Utility
Interesting use of Facebook’s APIs: Allow internet access via your wireless router to anyone who is your friend on Facebook.
August 28, 2007
Facebook Follies (or the Dangers of Investing in Someone Else’s Platform)
Baratunde Thurston on being shut out from messaging the group he founded on Facebook for the specific purpose of messaging. “I invested a lot into Facebook, but I’ve discovered, painfully, that Facebook doesn’t value me nearly as much as I’d hoped.”
July 11, 2007
June 24, 2007
Friend Photos - Facebook Screensaver
OS X screensaver which grabs your friends’ photos from Facebook. Playing with this, I was reminded that a) I have some incredibly hot friends and b) I have some incredibly strange friends.
June 20, 2007
Facebook | Abe Vigoda Status
The most important Facebook application EVAR!
May 25, 2007
Facebook Developers
The new Facebook API. They’ve done a really good job of letting you integrate — essentially they’re being a platform and then getting out of the way of whatever you want to build.
Social Networking Wars // Current
I hadn’t seen the “Super News” animations before starting working here, but they can be pretty good — and this one is excellently geeky.