[2009-09-17 – Edit: “b” and “c” aren't that close on the keyboard so I wonder what sort of a Freudian slip it was to type “Facecook” in the subject line of this post originally?] A minor trend I've noticed lately is people posting screen caps of funny Facebook threads they come across…“Michael Jackson is dead?““OMG! […]
I rarely do Facebook updates so here's a glimpse of how today would be if I did them all the time. 7:11am – Jason is awake before everyone else to attempt to catch up on his usual e-mail backlog. Getting from 130 down to 50 feels like success. 8:27am – some people say leftover pizza […]
I slipped over to the University today to sit in on the press conference for Ryan Meili's official launch of his campaign videos. The release of these videos was tied into the larger theme of the changing role of technology and especially its abiility to level the playing field in modern politics. (See his press […]
Rarely do I read an article where I just keep going “yes, yes, yes!” (well, not in a mainstream publication anyhow! ) But that was my reaction after reading “The Facebook Generation vs. The Fortune 500”, a Wall Street Journal article which outlines the 12 differences between the Facebook generation (aka Generation Y aka Millennials […]
When I first started looking into the NDP leadership race, I went to the now obligatory Facebook fan pages of each of the four leadership candidates. I was a bit shocked to see that Dwain Lingenfelter had almost twice the number of supporters that Ryan Meili had – even though Meili was the much younger […]
I did a “Seven Things You Don't Know About Me” mini-meme but I haven't succumbed to the pressure to do the full “25 Things” meme that's going around. Apparently neither has this guy…And you know a meme has jumped the shark when Time magazine is weighing in with their own snark. So there's no way […]
(with the relevant Mark Zuckerberg apology excerpt in italics…)1. Their launch of Newsfeed in 2006 which they implement, then backtrack then re-implement it with tighter privacy controls available.“We know that many of you are not immediate fans, and have found them [NewsFeed and Mini-NewsFeed] overwhelming and cluttered. Other people are concerned that non-friends can see […]
You know you are a nerd when you spend your New Year's Day eve classifying all of your Facebook friends into sub-groups using the site's new(ish?) “Friend List” option.I didn't put a lot of thought into my classification scheme so it's a bit random and not the most accurate thing in the world but basically, […]
Firefox add-on allows pirates to take over AmazonFacebook being used to spread Koobface virus Facebook rolls out “browser within a browser” 75 Bleeding Edge Search Engines to Beat Google…and a lesson in how to make money on the Internet. Create a site that does nothing but stream other people's content then load up every blank […]
I recently came across an article titled “Facebook in a Crowd” in the New York Times magazine. It was written by Canadian writer, Hal Niedzviecki and details the fact that he has nearly 700 Facebook friends but, when he tried to use Facebook Events to plan a party in Toronto and invited every one on […]
