The Facebook Experience

"Are you sick of UK newspapers and (my fellow) politicians beating up on gaming? So am I. The truth is, UK gamers need their own pressure group. I want to help you start one up. I don't know how it should work yet but please register your interest if you agree that gamers need their voice hear in the corridors of power. And if you have any ideas, please post them to the wall." - Kol Tregaskes

"Microsoft confirms that Twitter, Facebook and Last.FM functionality turned off for those under 18" - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

I guess that none of the services really have proper parental controls... or MS have not yet provided access to the parental controls on the xbox for those apps. - Travis Koger

thanks. See also full write-up here: http://blog.seeminglee.com/2009... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

"In 2008, the median age for Facebook was 26. Today, it's 33, a good seven years older. An interesting turn of events for a site once exclusive to college students. So where are students hanging out now? As it turns out, Gen Y likes Twitter...Well, maybe not, but they are using it" - Mitchell McKenna from Bookmarklet

"The largest dimension should be at most 604 pixels (the largest display size Facebook supports)" -- http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index... You can use Pixelpipe to upload to both SmugMug, etc. (for the original) and Facebook at the same time. - Tracy

What I meant was pics that appear as full-size on Facebook instead of looking like thumbnails. Does that make sense? For some reason although my Droid is taking 5MP pics they're getting scaled down to 300px or something when uploaded to Facebook - LANjackal from IM

PROBLEM SOLVED: The answer to this is to simply take the pictures directly in the Android 2.0 camera and upload to Facebook from there. Do NOT use the Facebook for Android app itself. - LANjackal

"we find some evidence that use of social networking services (e.g., Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn) substitutes for some neighborhood involvement." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

Changes include: More use of your email address, notifications will be removed, Open Graph API (any website can be a FaceBook Page), improved Insights page, and more. - Mitchell McKenna

Facebook is proud to play a part in promoting peace by building technology that helps people better understand each other. By enabling people from diverse backgrounds to easily connect and share their ideas, we can decrease world conflict in the short and long term - ★ Soner Gönül from Bookmarklet

Weird, when I use the FF app within FB, images do appear on my wall - Willem (@wim66) ☠

"FriendFeed Co-Founder, Paul Buchheit has taken the stage at Startup School at UC Berkeley. Buchheit is talking about what he’s learned so far as an entrepreneur, from creating Gmail to founding FriendFeed. Buchheit made some interesting points from his career at Intel, Google, FriendFeed and now Facebook. He’s also winging his presentation to see how it goes (and he’s doing a good job at it)... - sofarsoShawn from Bookmarklet

...Buchheit talked about his past at Google, where he is of course known as being the creator of Gmail, as well as Intel. At Intel, Buchheit learned that he didn’t enjoy working at large companies. People often ask what’s the formula to startup success. Buchheit answered with that Google had a formula for making successful products that everyone had to follow. Buchheit also mentioned... more... - sofarsoShawn

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has taken the stage at Startup School, where Y Combinator’s Jessica Livingston is interviewing him. I’m liveblogging the interview below. Mark Zuckerberg: “I love being here. These are like, my people... - sofarsoShawn from Bookmarklet

..."Q: I want to go way back, before Facebook. What did you learn from those experiences? A: I mostly built stuff that I liked. When I got to college I started messing around with other programs. There’s this story — I was making Facebook the week before finals, and there was a class where you had to learn all these pieces of arts. I was supposed to be studying, but instead I was... more... - sofarsoShawn

Call me old fashioned, but 3D menus are annoying. - Vezquex: God of FF

Sony, take a look at this (the social network thing, not the 3D menus) - João Almeida

"With hacked apps, security vulnerabilities, lack of privacy policies, and apps that can read your private profile information, one has to wonder if using any Facebook application is appropriate and safe these days." [h/t https://friendfeed.com/loucyph...] - LogEx from Bookmarklet

LOL. - Kol Tregaskes

LOL, yet another sign of the apocalypse. - rowlikeagirl, hecho en eu

Hehe! - Kol Tregaskes

"Facebook accounted for nearly 60 percent of all U.S. visits to a social network in September, nearly tripling over the same month last year, according to the latest stats from web traffic intelligence company Hitwise. By comparison, MySpace, which took the No. 2 slot, saw U.S. visits to the site plunge to 30.3 percent from 66.8 percent in September of 2008. Meanwhile Twitter’s percentage of visitors mushroomed to 1.84 percent last month from .15 percent in the same period the year before — a surge of 1170 percent." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

...backlash being prepared. stay tuned. - .LAG liked that

"A little over six months ago, we performed a comparison of the top users on Facebook and Twitter and the number of fans and followers on each. Six months later, the top Twitter users have experienced a 500 percent growth in their follower base whereas Facebook fans have grown by approximately 200 percent. Facebook however has a much greater overlap, a continuing trend that we saw a few months ago. Below, are charts of the top 50 users on each site and the number of followers or fans on the competing site. Twitter Is Catching Up To Facebook The most dramatic difference between the numbers from only six months ago is that Twitter’s top users almost have as many followers as Facebook’s top pages. Facebook’s top pages were previously 5 times as large as the top Twitter users, but now that number has decreased significantly. What we can’t derive from this data is the percentage of followers or fans that actually read the content published by each user. Twitter Is Slowly Filling The Gaps... more... - sofarsoShawn from Bookmarklet

@Onur Kabadayl Good observation! - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

I'm liking the idea of the "Top News" section. Eg. Don't got a lot of time to check facebook right now? Just get the most popular stories - Kind of a friendfeed-esque take on it - Mitchell McKenna from Bookmarklet

I'm considering nuking my profile and starting all over again. I'll have to take screen shots of my friends before doing so. SUCH...A...:PAIN!!!!! If I don't hear from them in the next day or so, I may have to do this. Which means I'll have to get a new custom URL, reset all of my apps, and send out about 300 Friend Requests that people may may or may not reply to. MY LIFE IS TOO FUCKING SHORT FOR THIS!!! - Helen Sventitsky

</crazy-ass rant> - Helen Sventitsky

"History is littered with good ideas that didn’t work out because they were ahead of their time. Tablet PCs didn’t work out a decade ago, but with technology advances, they’re poised to make a comeback. Microsoft’s local information web site Sidewalk.com was a bust in 1997, but now sites like Yelp and Google Maps offer local information that many people couldn’t fathom living without. Virtual currency sites like Beenz and Flooz never took off, but the idea is making a comeback on social networks." - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

shhh, facebook is supposed to be cloning friendfeed, don't distract them! - Mike Chelen