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June 23, 2008

Facebook Map

Facebook Map

My Facebook friends, mapped out using the Nexus app.

Major constellations are marked -- improvisers sure like their own, huh?

April 25, 2008

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.

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

Facebook | Scrabulous

Play Scrabble against your Facebook chums. Nice!

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.

April 3, 2007

phpsh — an interactive shell for php

This could come in handy for sanity checking syntax when writing PHP. Bizarrely, it’s mostly written in Python!

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