➠ February 10, 2010
Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login
Epic comment thread. Context: “We’ve determined by looking at our traffic stats that people are doing Google searches for “facebook login” and coming upon RWW. They see the FB Connect button and assume that RWW is the “new Facebook.”“
➠ October 24, 2009
Enter your Facebook password
Setting up the Facebook app on Xbox Live.
Rather than the gorgeous OAuth flow used by the Netflix app for the last year (The Xbox displays a six-digit number, you visit the Netflix website on your PC, log-in and enter that number, Tada, everything's linked), the Facebook, Twitter and last.fm apps all require you to fiddle around, entering email addresses and passwords on an on-screen keyboard.
Oh, and remember not to change your password on those services, because you'll need to go through the dance again.
(Particularly like this: "If you can't enter the characters you need here, change your passwords on www.facebook.com")
➠ September 16, 2009
➠ September 14, 2009
➠ September 12, 2009
TechCrunch: Yeah Ok, So Facebook Punk'd Us
Very satisfying. Facebook add a ridiculous feature, only visible to people who work at TechCrunch. A writer spots it, give FB a whole 24 minutes to respond to his questions, and in the TC way, rushes out a story so he can “scoop” competitors. Pwned!
➠ August 20, 2009
➠ June 10, 2009
Exclusive: The Future of Facebook Usernames - Anil Dash
Anil Dash predicts the future of Facebook vanity URLs. Who’s going to be the first to register “mikearrington”, I wonder.
➠ June 6, 2009
tweetpo.st
I love the way tweetpo.st/ translates @usernames when updating your Facebook status with your Twitter posts.
➠ April 2, 2009
➠ February 26, 2009
The size of social networks | Primates on Facebook | The Economist
Good Economist article about how “the Dunbar number” relates to online social networks, with some interesting stats about friend groups on Facebook.
➠ January 8, 2009
Burger King Says Sacrifice 10 Facebook Friends For a Whopper
Brilliant piece of viral marketing by BK. People will happily sell out their friends (and plaster BK’s name across their friend feeds) for a $3 hamburger.
➠ November 24, 2008
AddressBookSync | Facebook Picture Synchronization with OS X Address Book
Update your OS X Address Book with photos and birthdays from your friends’ Facebook pages (sadly, Facebook bars it from doing anything useful, like updating email addresses and phone numbers)
➠ 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.”



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.