Facebook

It will. Already it has become 5x more interesting because now it's not just a copy of Twitter that I'm seeing. - Robert Scoble

Michael, correct :-) - Jesse Stay

You didn't read the facebook page for the app showing where all the new things got moved to beforehand. :P - John Wang

This is a typical iPhone app. Though it's a third party app for the iPhone.. It inherits lots of feature of iPhone.. - Mohammad Abdurraafay

"If you receive a Facebook mail today with the subject line “CoooL Video”, don’t click the link. We’re getting reports of a Facebook scam which causes infected users to unknowingly send out Facebook mails to their friends containing that subject line. The links in the mails go to various places, including a blogspot blog (see screenshot below). Of course, clicking the link earns you an unpleasant dose of malware. Facebook, to give credit where due, is becoming increasingly proficient at stomping out such scams: the last one to cause issues was around two months ago." - Susan Beebe from Bookmarklet

A wise netizen is ALWAYS on the lookout for such things. It was I who leaped across the office screaming "don't open that unsolicited attachment" the evening before the great "I love you" virus attack. - Slippy "WildBeard" Lane

Click it so it pops up, click settings, click go offline. It will remember that setting :) Will auto put you online again if you click the bar again though. - Simon Wicks

OMG thanks! I never liked being bothered there. - Marci Golub

"As every other FriendFeeder out there, I wanted to start the slow and painful migration from FriendFeed to Facebook (ironically FriendFeed staffers are moving as well) and of course, it’s been a rocky ride so far. I don’t feel quite as home, and the lack of real time kills me at times, but I wanted to share with you how I’ve managed to make an initial comfortable nest on the new tree. - Kol Tregaskes

Post from Jorge: http://friendfeed.com/jungleg - Kol Tregaskes

"If it wasn’t bad enough that Facebook bought FriendFeed on Monday and turned on real-time search to better compete against Twitter in the Stream Wars, and is playing around with a lite version that resembles Twitter even more, now Twitter really has something to worry about. Facebook is growing faster than Twitter in the U.S., even though it is more than four times larger. In the month of July, according to the latest estimates from comScore, Facebook attracted 87.7 million unique visitors in the U.S., which was 14 percent higher than in June, 2009. Twitter, in contrast, only saw 21.2 million unique U.S. visitors to its Website, a 6 percent rise compared to the month before. In absolute terms, Facebook added about ten million new visitors in the month of July versus roughly one million new visitors for Twitter. At 87.7 million uniques, Facebook moves from the sixth largest Web media property in the U.S. to the fifth, passing the combined sites of Fox Interactive Media (80.9 million... more... - Susan Beebe from Bookmarklet

and I could still delete my Facebook account tomorrow - George Dearing from BuddyFeed

..or else I'll do with Linux distros: when it's fucked, it's fucked: let's forget it, live goes on. - Thierry R. Andriamirado

Well, I'm partial, but there's: Translatorize for Facebook http://translatorize.com :) - Micah Wittman

Paul and Mark just became "friends" on facebook - awesome to watch this unfold :) - Susan Beebe

"A Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial of service attack that led to the site-wide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites on Thursday, according to a Facebook executive. The blogger, who uses the account name "Cyxymu," (the name of a town in the Republic of Georgia) had accounts on all of the different sites that were attacked at the same time, Max Kelly, chief security officer at Facebook, told CNET News. "It was a simultaneous attack across a number of properties targeting him to keep his voice from being heard," Kelly said." - Thierry R. Andriamirado from Bookmarklet

So.. we didn't know this Georgian blogger. Now, the whole world know him and is awaiting for those attacks against him to stop in order to be able to work! - Thierry R. Andriamirado

The connection is that both situations are annoying. - Chrissie M

Twitter has been down for 2 hours already now, and Facebook has gone too shortly ago! - Flavio

I'll go for FriendFeed, Facebook is a social networking site though. - Vince Ong

Do they they really want us to be on Facebook all day long, just to manage our inboxes? Frustrating! - Thierry R. Andriamirado

"Analysts have begun to realize that there is a strong link between a brand’s presence on social media and the revenue it generates. Research is also showing that Twitter is overtaking Facebook as the medium of choice for building this brand presence." - Thierry R. Andriamirado from Bookmarklet

"NEW DELHI (AFP) – Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said he was forced to give up on the social networking phenomenon Facebook after too many people wanted to be his friend. Gates, the billionaire computer geek-turned-philanthropist who was honoured Saturday by India for his charity work, told an audience in New Delhi he had tried out Facebook but ended up with "10,000 people wanting to be my friends". Gates, who remains Microsoft chairman, said he had trouble figuring out whether he "knew this person, did I not know this person". "It was just way too much trouble so I gave it up," Gates told the business forum. Gates was in the Indian capital to receive the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development, awarded by the government for his work for the charitable organisation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation, built by his massive fortune, has committed nearly one billion dollars to health and development projects in India, targeting especially AIDS and... more... - Susan Beebe from Bookmarklet

Rationale: "It was just way too much trouble so I gave it up" << Social Media fatigue! - Susan Beebe

"Last month, Facebook suspended two Facebook Platform ad networks from operating on the Facebook Platform due to deceptive practices and bad user experience. The ad networks were allegedly presenting Facebook users with misleading advertisements inside third party applications (i.e. suggesting a user’s friends had taken an action when they hadn’t), and sometimes putting Facebook user data on outside landing pages in ways that violated Facebook’s privacy policy. Since then, those ad networks have not served any ads on Platform applications as far as we’re aware, though other Facebook Platform ad networks have continued to use Facebook profile photos in their advertisements in acceptable ways. Nevertheless, rumors have been spreading in recent weeks that Facebook changed its policies to allow advertisers to incorporate Facebook users’ photos more liberally than they had been allowed to before. Today, Facebook issued the following statement to “debunk” those rumors: The advertisements... more... - Susan Beebe from Bookmarklet

It was a comment on someone else's status, and I did put a link in that comment. I didn't get a captcha on another comment where I did not put a link in... - Tom Ribbens

hmm. I would question that as a blanket assertion. Was listening to a seminar about e-mail marketing where the presenters were saying email should *only* be used to drive engagement/communication. That traditional email enewsletters are pointless. Umm, sorry, no. People still read newspapers, articles, magazines, books, strictly for the purpose of gathering information, whether it's... more... - Laura Norvig