Ok this weeks talk till be based on facebook. not exactly facebook, but on who you can meet on the site.
I got a facebook sometime last year just to see what it was like. But myself being such a myspace queen it was regularly ignored. In which i did the same thing a few years back... being a MSN spaces queen i once thought myspace had sucked as well. I guess those are the loops of life.

However since logging into facebook, it has since become a very popular reunion.
I think this site is truly amazing!!! Of course i have my regular friends on there from high school, as well as other friends I have met since High School and the few friends from high school that i have not heard from since leaving. But i have also found friends from back in the days when I was 6 years old... my old JNR primary school, my primary schools and even my high school (when i left Birdwood and moved interstate for a term).

It's so exhilarating to see how my friends have changed over the years. I love to look at their pictures and think oh my gosh how much has she changed or wow she hasn't changed very much at all. Of course some of these people I have not seen since I was 8 years old. some i haven't seen since I was 12. so it all varies. whether or not I was best friends with them or just friends with them. It's so good to know everything is going well in their lives.

take this example (on how years change) -
one of the boys I went to High school with (up in darwin) he was what can i say... a drug user. very nice boy, but was always in alot of trouble and alot of people thought he didn't have much of a chance out in the big big world. yet he finds me on facebook and i find him to be now  a driver of a green jet down in sydney.
who would have known really.

Facebook is really a reunion place where you can also play games against your friends, send your friends gifts and drinks. a really odd odd place but what I'm finding to be really really good. Trying to find some people though can be mission impossible as some may have moved or not gone to the high school in which you thought they may have gone to, or it's very well possible that they may not even have a facebook yet, but c'mon Rhi has a facebook which means everyone else should have one by now.

Of course you can also join groups. which i don't find relevant yet i still join. such groups as - "Torrens Valley Lions (appreciation page)", "Bring Garth Down Under". Of course these are the ones I will add, as well as some in which are completely irrelevant - "Vegemite belongs in the cupboard not the fridge ", "ABBY with a Y", "No, i don't care if I die at 12AM, i refuse to pass on your chain letter.". There are also alot of support fan clubs... The Outer army in particular has one, port Adelaide has them, there are even ones to say how much you hate the crows. Of course there are the plain funny ones where you appreciate a guy you know or even a appreciate a guy you know and vote he's the hottest on facebook. I have not yet found a guy with one of those in which i add.

so i really wonder why alot of my friends have facebook. I know Matt has one simply because he can play games in which he finds as "fun". I first added mine coz it was apparently cool, and now i have fun trying to find old friends. I guess some people would have one due to an overload of invitations.

So I'm going to go now, to try and find some other people I may know!
stay tuned for another fun fun post by me some time in the future

I wonder when the first SNAFU's of people uploading NSFW photos to their public pages show up in the blogosphere?

Stay tuned...

En Facebook se ha creado el grupo (de cerca de 21.000 personas) ´Salven a los animales de Chaitén´. Estas fotos son de su sección de fotos. Autora: Hilda.

Desde Facebook se ha convocado a una movilización mañana lunes 12, 12:00 - 14:00, en Plaza de la Ciudadanía, Santiago. Facebook | Movilización por Animales y mascotas de Chaitén

Esta movilización se planea para todos los días de la semana, hasta el sábado próximo. Es algo que de entrada resulta chocante, pues el salvamento debiera producirse cuanto antes; en las próximas horas. Aunque los tribunales no den mañana lunes 12 permiso a los grupos de rescate a entrar a la zona, debiera procederse igual a entrar, pues esperar más tiempo es irresponsable: los animales pueden morir, y sufrir innecesariamente en cualquier caso. Se comenta en algunos círculos que el riesgo de politización de la causa animalista es latente. Debiéramos estar alertas. De seguro no faltarán los que se unan al movimiento de hermandad animal sólo por aprovechar la ocasión de joder al gobierno. Para estas personas la muerte de los animales sería un triunfo sobre el gobierno actual. Quede claro no obstante que apoyamos la movilización de mañana. Actuar puede y debe hacerse a varias bandas.

Otros dos grupos en Facebook de solidaridad con los animales de Chaitén son este y este.

Most college students use these sites to connect with friends, tag pictures of their crazy Spring Break romps and make weekend plans. As we graduate and move into the professional world is it time to trade in MySpace and Facebook for Linkdin? This decision must be made individually, but here are some key questions to consider as you grow beyond college and your early twenties:

Who can see these pages? Are your profiles private? If not, they should be.

What image do I give off? Are all of your pictures from parties or nightclubs? If so, what does this show about your life, your morals and your goals?

If my grandparents or parents saw this, would they be proud of me?

Are my comments inappropriate?

Do I have too much personal information available? NEVER a good idea.

If my current or future employer saw this, what would they think? Do you portray the image they represent?

It is crucial that we realize that social networking sites can be damaging to your professional life. You don't have to cancel everything, just begin to think twice about what you say and do online. Privacy is truly a thing of the past. Crazy nights may come and go, but what is online is available forever! Think twice future grads!

WIDGETS

Nirvana espiritual con el toque de un boton puedes pasar de catolico a budista

Informe ETS asi puedes determinar si tienes o no una fauna en el ecuador, igualmente puedes conseguir a hediondos como tu y hacer grupos llamados "los facebookeros venereos" o que se yo

Consulta psicologica con opciones entre feliz, normal y suicida, que si pisas feliz salga un aviso que diga "eres un guevon" y asi se te nivela la autoestima, si pones normal sale un avisito que "no val, pero si tu eres de pinga" y si pones suicida pues sencillo, el avisito diria algo asi como "todas quieren cojerte, papi"

Reactor BFF quieres ser my best friend forever? (al menos por una semana) pulsa aca. (ya debe existir)

Dreams Twitter como importa hasta lo que sueñas (porque no tienes nada que decir) escribe con 140 caracteres tu sueño.

ZOObook como no es suficiente con alimentar a un animalito, alimente a 58, todos chillaran, berrearan y maullaran hasta que los alimente a todos, si no lo hace antes de los 2 minutos, el leon se fornica a su avatar, a que si esta divertido, a que si

Palabras Encadenadas (este juego es diverido, cero sarcasmo) un amigo deja una palabra escrita y otro debe escribir otra que empiece por la utima silaba de la anterior, puede extenderse bien

GoldenFacebook cuanto dolares vale mi perfil de facebook? aqui neogabox tendria problemas porque vadria tanto que los numeritos no cabrian en el widget

Abracitos Cromaticos widget utilisimo para que todos sepan de que color son tus abrazos

FB atawa Facebook, sebuah situs pertemanan yang lagi disukai oleh masyarakat pengguna internet termasuk di Indonesia karena tampilannya yang menarik, lucu, dan lebih personal ternyata juga berpotensi untuk menimbulkan bahaya yang mungkin ga disangka-sangka di kemudian hari.

Saya sengaja memposting lagi artikel forward-an ini dari sebauh milis para jurnalis.

Patut dicermati juga sih mengingat kadang kita suka dengan bangganya menuliskan data-data pribadi yang sebenarnya confidential. Jadi kalau boleh saya sarankan, data-data personalnya ga usah ditampilin semua di situs apapun. sama aplikasi yang keliatannya fun dan menarik itu juga patut dicurigai. Jangan sok naif lah pokoke.

(earth)

ini artikelnya;

Rincian informasi pribadi para pengguna situs jejaring sosial Facebook mungkin bisa dicuri oleh hacker berniat jahat, demikian temuan BBC.

Situs internet jejaring sosial yang populer ini memungkinkan para pengguna menambahkan beragam program aplikasi ke profil mereka.

Namun, program jahat, yang disamarkan sebagai aplikasi tak berbahaya, mungkin bisa menghimpun data pribadi.

Facebook mengatakan, pengguna sebaiknya berhati-hati ketika menambahkan aplikasi. Program yang melanggar ketentuan akan ditarik, kata pengelola jejaring sosial tersebut.

Facebook digemari banyak orang saat ini. Jejaring ini memungkinkan orang saling berhubungan, menerbitkan foto, dan berbagai game dan kuiz sederhana.

Dan, situs yang sama juga memungkinkan anda menyimpan rincian dari para pengguna lain. Atau setidaknya itulah implikasi yang dikehendaki.

Mencuri rincian

Tim program BBC Click telah menemukan cara untuk mencuri rincian pribadi orang dan temannya di Facebook tanpa sepengetahuan mereka.

Tim BBC membuat profil fiktif Bob Smith. Dia menyimpan dan merahasiakan sebagian besar rincian pribadi mengenai profilnya dari orang-orang yang bukan temannya di Facebook.

Meski tim tidak bisa mendapatkan seluruh rincian, ditil yang benar-benar diperoleh, termasuk namanya, kota asal, sekolah, minat dan foto, tentu membantu kami untuk mencuri identitas seseroang.

Dengan memanfaatkan sepasang laptop dan bantu penyusun kode aplikasi, tim BBC menciptakan aplikasi khusus untuk para pengguna Facebook atau Facebookers.

Salah satu alasan Facebook menjadi begitu cepat populer adalah koleksi aplikasi yang bisa ditambahkan oleh pengguna ke profil mereka.

Ada ribuan game, kuiz, dan tes IQ sederhana tersedia bagi mereka. Dan, begitu pengguna menambahkan suatu aplikasi, teman-temannya akan terdorong untuk ikut menambahkan.

Siapa pun yang memiliki pemahaman dasar pemrograman web bisa menulis aplikasi.

Menambang data

Tim BBC merancang aplikasi penghimpun data (data mining) yang jahat dengan nama Miner, yang jika dikehendaki, bisa menyamar sebagai game, uji kecerdasan, kelakar dan semacamnya.

Program itu bisa dibuat dalam waktu kurang dari tiga jam.

Namun, seperti apa pun tampaknya program, di latar belakang, aplikasi itu bisa menghimpun rincian pribadi, dan para pengguna lain yang termasuk teman-teman dan mengirimkan ditil-ditil tadi melalui e-mail keluar dari Facebook kepada tim.

Ketika anda menambahkan aplikasi, kecuali anda memilih membatasinya, program itu diberi akses ke sebagian besar informasi dalam profil anda. Dan, itu termasuk informasi yang anda punya mengenai teman-teman anda sekalipun mereka menyangka mereka telah memilih security setting yang ketat.

Saat ini, banyak aplikasi memang memerlukan akses ke ditil anda agar bisa berfungsi sebagaimana mestinya.

Namu, tim BBC menyatakan tidak tahu aplikasi tertentu yang menyalahgunakan ditil informasi pengguna Facebook, selain program yang diciptakan tim tersebut.

Namun, fakta bahwa tim bisa menciptakan aplikasinya dengan mudah merisaukan banyak orang. Orang tidak perlu memiliki program seperti itu untuk menjadi korban. Orang bisa menjadi korban jika dia mempunyai teman yang memiliki program semacam itu.

Mengingat aplikasi tersebut dijalankan di server pihak ketiga, bukannya oleh Facebook, sulit bagi perusahaan itu untuk mengecek apa yang terjadi, apakah program itu telah berubah, dan berapa lama aplikasi itu menyimpan data dan data itu dipergunakan untuk apa.

Meski ketentuan dan syarat yang diberlakukan Facebook memuat peringatan bahwa keadaan itu secara teoretis mungkin terjadi, dan menawarkan pilihan untuk menghalangi aplikasi untuk mengakses ditil anda, banyak game dan kuiz tidak akan berfungsi jika pilihan ini digunakan.

'Bertindak naif'

Pertanyaannya kini apakah Facebook telah bertindak cukup untuk melindungi para penggunanya dari pencurian identitas.

Paul Docherty adalah direktur teknis pada Portcullis Security, perusahaan yang menjadi penasihat pemerintah beberapa negara soal computer security, termasuk pemerintah Inggris.

Dia mengatakan kepada BBC, dia yakin ketentuan dan syarat Facebook yang tercantum di situs itu menandakan Facebook telah melindungi diri secara hukum dari tanggungjawab.

Namun, dia menambahkan: "Secara moral, Facebook telah bertindak naif."

Menurut Docherty: "Facebook perlu mengubah default setting-nya dan memperketat security."

Dia yakin sulit untuk mengamankan sistem yang ada saat ini, sebab ada begitu banyak aplikasi pihak ketiga yang beredar saat ini.

Saat menanggapi pertanyaan tim investigasi BBC, Facebook mengatakan, situs itu memiliki tim penyelidik yang mengawasi situs tersebut, dan menarik aplikasi yang melenggar ketentuan, dan itu termasuk aplikasi seperti Miner.

Facebooks juga menasihati pengguna agar menempuh langkah kehati-hatian seperti saat men-download software dari aplikasi Facebook yang mereka men-download software di komputer mereka.

Berbeda

Ini semua terjadi pada bulan saingan Facebook, MySpace membuka application platform-nya.

Namun, MySpace menangani aplikasi dengan cara berbeda. Di sini, semua aplikasi dioperasikan di server MySpace sendiri, sehingga pengelola situs itu bisa melihat gerak-gerik aplikasi.

MySpace juga secara manual memeriksa aplikasi yang di-upload dan memeriksa ulang aplikasi tersebut jika penciptanya berniat mengubah kodenya. Tim BBC tidak bisa menimbulkan ancaman yang sama terhadap security pengguna yang memakai sistem MySpace.

Tampak jelas bahwa securitu setting Facebook tidak memadai untuk melindungi rincian informasi pribadi pengguna, dan teman-teman si pengguna.

sumber : http://www.bbc.co.uk/indonesian/indepth/story/2008/05/080501_facebooks.shtml

"Daisy, here are your hottest single friends

* "Who is hotter"
1. Babe #1 (A points)
2. Babe #2 (B points)

* "Who is more desirable to date"
1. Hottie #1 (8X points)
2. Hottie #2 (X points)
3. Hottie #3 (C points)"

You get the picture.  Obviously, I've removed the names and points to protect the innocent and hot singles.  What completely threw me for a loop was just how many points, Hottie #1 had.  So of course, I start to over-analyze it (because that's what I do) and try to figure out just why do so many people think he's so hot and desirable with 8 times more points than 2nd best?!  Then I realize pretty quickly, it's just plain math mixed with personality.  Sigh.  Hottie #1 is an extrovert who seems to know a lot of people on Facebook.  He's young, his friends are young, they have lots of time to spend on applications like Compare People.  It's a numbers game. 

Congrats Hottie #1 on winning a numbers game.  Congrats to Compare People for catching my attention.  (You've got to do a better job on the revenue generating side though.  Oops, inside business voice needs to shut up.)  Sometimes, it really is the silly little things in life that make us smile, laugh and destress a little.

I think I'm done with the silly posts for now.  Back to regularly scheduled posts next week.

- Daisy

When I think back to all the History classes that I have taken as a student, or even the times that I debated about race, the ability to critically examine race always causes some people to get butt sore, or want to ignore the topic all together. This political season is no different. Think back to Women Suffrage. During this time period, we are taught about the great accomplishments of women like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. One day, we might even be able to put Hillary in that group. I highly doubt it, but I am willing to suspend belief to understand that it is possible. In one way, Hillary is just like them. When it came to look at getting Blacks the right to vote, Stanton refused to support Blacks getting the right to vote, if it meant that women were not included in the group to vote. Now, I am all for women getting the right to vote, but where were they during slavery? I didn't really here them agitating to get our freedom then either. Identity Politics are rough, but life has shown that white is the first thing that people notice, even over gender. Did everyone forget Sojourner Truth? She tirelessly fought for not just women's rights (of all shades), but for blacks as well. I have a lot of enlightened friends, who write about enlightening things, but some of them need to step off the pedestal and walk backwards to the starting point that Black men and women have to start from.

If you read this post, the author is railing out against misogynistic behavior of some people on facebook. Without actually going to facebook (since I don't have one to go to) I would imagine that the vast majority of the participants are white. Yes, the White Man is trying to keep women and blacks down. But, what happens when you are a part of both categories? White women push ahead, leaving their compatriots or the other members of the Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants behind to face the cops. Here is Sojourner Truth spitting fire…

Delivered 1851 at the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio

Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what's all this here talking about?

That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?

Then they talk about this thing in the head; what's this they call it? [member of audience whispers, "intellect"] That's it, honey. What's that got to do with women's rights or negroes' rights? If my cup won't hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full?

Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back , and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.

Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say.

White people need to get over that their cup aint full, since they are working with the quart size, and blacks are working with the pint cup, and it has holes in it. Yes, Hillary is a good candidate, but she has her warts as well. I mean, anyone remember sniper fire? I had to walk to school 7 miles uphill both ways to get to school, but you don't hear me complaining…exactly… While I didn't actually have to walk that distance, people tend to exaggerate what actually happened. In the case of Hillary, she wanted to be part of the old boys club and show her toughness. Barack will have his moment too, where he wants to be part of the gang. We all want to just fit in and find our place. Her place right now is back in the Senate, since the people have spoken. She is losing the electoral vote, the popular vote and now the super delegate vote.

Ms. Clinton says she's staying in the race despite losing to Mr. Obama by a wide margin in North Carolina and barely winning in Indiana, which helped cement his status as the front-runner. She touts her overall electability in a general election and, pointing to demographics, recently told USA Today in an interview:

"There was just an AP article posted that found how Senator Obama's support among working – hardworking Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how the, you know, whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."

It's clear that Hillary and I agree on one thing… Race Matters and she understands as much. You play the race card, and you have to deal with the consequences.

The bigger issue is how the writer of the argument thinks that it is more socially acceptable to make sexist jokes that racial jokes. From jokes about Nacho cheese (about Hispanics chasing after a wedge of cheese) to Blacks (black man wearing a tuxedo to get a vasectomy… if I am going to be impo-tent, then I should dress impot-ant), there is more jokes about race. Also, which do you hear more of; women are bad drivers, or Asians are bad drivers? It just sounds like another white person who didn't get exactly what she wants and hasn't stopped to see that they have more than others. Thinking back to Sojourner Truth, she had to leave the suffrage movement as the tenor and tone of her message became more racist. During the middle to late 19^th century, this question of race and gender was answered by white women, and they chose gender over race. Black women like Ida B. Wells were left to form their own organizations to struggle for rights. Even groups that supported women and their right to vote turned down black women and their right to vote. When you have to make a choice, I guess you go with what is more comfortable. In this case, I am totally going for Barack. It's about time…

In other words, Facebook could easily increase its number of servers from current estimates of about 10,000 servers to over 50,000 servers, in order to keep up with its growth. Various web analytic companies estimate that Facebook as over 100 million visitors and serves up billions of pages every month. One of my sources had told me that Facebook was looking to spend about $9 million this year on hardware, but apparently, their needs are much bigger. All that spending should prove to be good news for Rackable (RACK) which has been a big server supplier to Facebook.

Facebook has built an enviable infrastructure. I personally believe that their desire to market Facebook Connect is a way to offload some of the pressures Facebook apps are placing on their system, but at some later stage. Regardless, one exec who is not going to be around to help architect the next phase of Facebook's back end bulk-up: CTO Adam D'Angelo, who left the company according to Kara Swisher and Eric Eldon.

Facebook spokeswoman confirmed the news and added that "D'Angelo will be transitioning out of his role as CTO and leaving Facebook to take some time off." The company is currently looking for a VP of Engineering. Apparently, Adam's main interest was engineering and the CTO role moved him too far away from that.

Todo comenzó con un colega que llegó a la redacción y comentó que estaba preparando una nota para el domingo en Clarín acerca de las redes sociales. El gancho era que según un estudio de la consultora Ignis ya son al menos 240 mil los argentinos en facebook, orkut, twitter y demás. Entonces el compañero periodista pidió si le podíamos pasar algún contacto de gente que use redes sociales o sepa de ellas. Al toque le dije que yo le pasaba. Y entonces twitié eso contándoles a mis followers de la nota y diciendo que me manden DM a los que quieran participar.

Entre otros, la ya famosa Conz y el gran Ebetas se prendieron. Entonces pase al colega sus celulares y así como si nada estos dos twitteros llegaron al gran diario argentino. La chica del millón de amigos dijeron de Conz. Argentino, pionero y con estilo de Ebetas.

Así, todo empezó con un twitteo mío y terminó con dos twitters dejando su huella en el diario más leído de la Argentina y un domingo. Falta poco para que Twitter llegue a los grandes medios y justo ahora que tanto se habla de mainstream.

Dalam beberapa tahun terakhir ini, perkembangan situs-situs yang bersifat sosial sangatlah pesat. Situs-situ sosial semacam Friendster, FaceBook, Yuwee dan lain sebagainya, sudah hampir menjadi agenda wajib bagi para pengguna internet untuk diakses. Bahkan dalam survei yang dilakukan oleh salah satu majalah IT terkemuka, situs semacam Friendster dan Facebook, sudah termasuk ke dalam sepuluh top situs yang paling sering dikunjungi oleh pengguna internet. Bahkan di Indonesia sendiri, anggota Friendster sudah mencapai ratusan ribu orang. Memang pengguna internet di Indonesia paling banyak menjadi anggota Friendster dibandingkan dengan beberapa situs sosial lainnya. Bahkan friendster sudah mengeluarkan situs yang berbahasa Indonesia, untuk memudahkan pengguna dalam mengaksesnya.

Memang situs sosial semacam ini menjadi suatu fenomena menarik di dalam dunia internet. Dengan menjadi member situs tersebut, kita dapat mengupdate profile, upload foto, mencari dan melihat teman bahkan beberapa anggota mencari pasangannya melalui situs-situs semacam ini. Walaupun terkadang ada beberapa data yang dimanipulasi oleh para anggota. Memang tidak semua data-data yang ditampilkan oleh para anggota di dalam situs tersebut, benar adanya. Hal ini tergantung dari bagaimana kita untuk berusaha mencari data dan informasi yang sebenarnya.

Dalam beberapa tahun kedepan, situs-situs semacam ini akan semakin banyak dan berkembang. Sesuai dengan berkembangnya pengguna internet di dunia. Bahkan beberapa situs sudah menambah beberapa fasilitas bagi para anggotanya, sehingga dapat lebih aktraktif dalam melakukan hubungan sosialnya. (heyu)

Recently I discovered a book on Amazon called “I Can't Believe I'm Buying This Book: A Commonsense Guide to Successful Internet Dating ”. The best part about amazon is that you can buy them used for $5. I almost can't remember what dating was like before the Internet. How would you get to know someone? Talk to them in person?...HA! Our world has evolved from giving out your phone number to giving your MSN contact and adding them to Facebook with an ever so ironic and clever “poke”.

The magical world of the Internet has opened a Pandora's box in the dating world. It can be the worst thing for relationships and hearts or it can be one of the greatest tools in the history of flirting.

The e-world is filled with all kinds of Internet relationships. From single serving sessions of love to people getting married over IRC (believe it or not but that couple is now celebrating their 12th wedding anniversary). We are a world filled with all kinds of lonely people. Some more than others, but granted we are all looking for some sort of connection… romantic or not. Hiding behind a screen allows a safe and secure place to be yourself or who ever you want to be. Craigslist personal connections or word of war craft are two great examples. They say the Internet was originally created for the military… well I think that’s a lie. I think the Internet was created for all the awkward people of the world to unite. Eventually it evolved into not only a tool for the awkward and nerdy but a place for our entire generation to socialize virtually.

With a tool that allows people to interact in such an easy fashion comes huge problems. Dating websites, pay cam/internet porn, and online networking sites have developed into a billion dollar industry because we're constantly searching for a greater connection.

Facebook, Msn and Myspace seem to be three of the most popular forms of communication for my age group. I've seen many relationships grow and some of them crumble using these tools. It all starts with some casual flirting and maybe a comment on a picture or something of the sort. It then eventually grows into messages everyday and comments on profiles. Their friends add you and eventually you start to spend more time in person together and going out on group outings. Before you know it a relationship has evolved. Then the greatest event of the modern relationship happens "The Status Change". These days nothing is really official until its announced to the virtual world you are "now listed as in a relationship". Every thing runs smoothly until there are other interesting people that get added to the friends list. More comments happen, more messages and before you know it the poison of the Internet sets in. It comes in the form of jealousy, uncertainty and curiosity. These new people are coming into your partners life the same way you did. Do you trust them?

Relationships are more and more easy to find online, whether it’s long distance, in your home town, or by the minute… anyone can feel like they are special to someone from the comfort of their own home. Is the temptation too much? Can the modern relationship survive modern technology?

Americano new top 10 >>> facebook

If you haven't stopped by Stuff Christians Like you've got to check it out at least once. It has got to be one of the most clever and humorous sites out there in the blogosphere. Although I wouldn't say I can relate to the post below I have definitely seen this reflected on Facebook.

#208 Christianizing your Facebook profile, a how to guide:

Step 1: Your Name
Don't just use your name on your profile. Calling yourself "Mary" or "Tim" doesn't do anything for the Lord. Name your profile something like, "Forgiven1" or "WashedinBlood." Better yet, name yourself after a Bible verse so that when you send someone a message, even if they don't open it they will see they got a note from "ForGodSoLovedtheWorld."

Step 2: Status
On Facebook, you can put a little message by your name, allowing people to know where you are or what you're doing. Don't just say something like "Matt is stressed out from finals." Write something a little longer like, "Matt is stuck in the moment, the moment when my eyes will look up to the Son, the Son that's always been there for me, arms around my life, for now and evermore."

Step 3: Photos
Only posts photos from church events. And if your church goes to the beach, or the devil's sandbox as it were, make sure you wear a tankini.

Step 4: Quotes
If you don't have a quote from CS Lewis on your profile page, I'm not sure you're a Christian. You better get right with God and add at least three or four.

Step 5: Groups
The other day someone invited me to join the "Recovering Alcoholics" group on Facebook. That was a weird request as I am not an alcoholic. I have friends that are and I sometimes speak at rehab clinics, but still, weird thing to assume. For the most part though joining a group is a great way to show your allegiance to God. Join as many as you can. Better yet, create your own.

Step 6: Applications
I hate the applications. Everyday someone is inviting me to "download the virtual cobbler! Make your own virtual shoes that you can sell." But there has to be a good Christian application, something that lets you count up the number of people you've told about God or make your own Jesus fish.

Step 7: Notes
Use the notes section as a way to recap in long, long detail the sermon you heard on Sunday. Spare no detail. And when you do post the note, tag all yor friends so that they'll get that little "hey you have a notification" status update. Good stuff.

Step 8: Profile Photo
What, you were just going to use a photo of yourself? You sweaty Philistine. Use a cross or a dove or better yet, a Jesus fish kicking the darwin fish in the face.

I also tell them, on the first day of class and frequently throughout the semester, that if they have any questions about my expectations, assignments or the class, it is their responsibility to speak to me about it. I ask every session if they have questions. When I assign essay prompts, I give them time in class to read the assignment and ask any questions they might have. I also tell them that I am willing to give them as much help as they need, and explain things as many times as necessary, if they ask me to (although, depending on the problem, this may require discussion at office hours rather than during class). And I know that I am not scary; almost unanimously, my course reviews say that I am approachable and friendly and helpful. The underlying issue from my end is, how can I know if someone doesn't understand something if no one tells me? I cannot - and shouldn't have to - read minds. My classes are a 2-way street, and my students know it.

This is the final week of class. We've been in session since the middle of January. Students have had SIXTEEN WEEKS to tell me that they are confused; if they felt more comfortable putting it in writing than saying it in person, I've collected journals twice. One student - a bright young woman - has received full credit on her journals but is getting Cs on her essays because even though her writing reveals that she can think, she has a lot of trouble expressing her ideas clearly and connecting one idea to another. When I was reading her journal this weekend I found a note that was conflicting for me. She said that she had gotten As and Bs last semester so she was really upset that she was getting Cs, and that she's angry because she doesn't understand the assignments and can't figure out what I want and that I'm not clear enough. On the one hand, I am anguished - I WANT my students to do well, and I try to be as clear as possible at all times, and I give them LOTS of opportunities to ask for help. I write extensive comments and suggestions on every essay submitted to me in hopes that individually targeted feedback will give each student a few specific things to work on. When we talk about the readings, I also spend time talking about why they are or are not effective, how they are structured, and some of the stylistic choices the authors have made. And after all this, this student (and therefore probably others as well) cannot figure out what I want from her in essays. It makes me feel like a failure.

On the other hand, why is she waiting until the LAST WEEK of class to tell me this? If she'd come to me after the first essay, there would have been time for me to address whatever particular issues she feels I need to talk about more. With her immediate feedback, I could have been a better teacher for her. I cannot hold her hand; I don't have the class time to hold conferences and if I hold them outside classtime no one shows up. From this angle, I feel vindicated.

And yet, underneath it, I still feel an inkling of failure.

Onward ever forward, right? All things to take into account for the next time I teach a class... one, or two, or maybe even three years from now.

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A followup to the facebook quandary: what do you do if the friend request from your student comes after they are no longer your student? The teacher-student relationship is less clearly defined then. At that point, does the friend request become subject to standard facebook etiquette (which, according to everyone I know and New York Magazine, forbids you from rejecting friend requests unless you don't know the requester)? I love facebook, but damn if it isn't a strange kettle of fish.

K.

An innovative method is the communication with clients and/or business partners via secure portals. Portals are one of our specializations that are becoming more frequently requested by our clients. They allow real estate agents, property developers and project marketers to connect online more intimately with their clients and each other.

For example, a property developer that has a large number of external agents working to sell their stock ultimately spends a lot of time emailing and faxing out updated stock lists, pricelists, construction updates, marketing material and so on. But via an agent portal – an external agent can logon to a secure website and access all this information in a live format, as well as viewing their buyers contracts and any commission owing to them, all uploaded by the developer at the click of a button.

Other innovative portals include vendor portals, where vendors can view all activities and inspections conducted on their property by the real estate agent. Another solution is for project marketers to enable developers to view the progress on the sale of their developments, activities and advertising…the possibilities are endless.

With the birth of services sits such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo, where users are free to find and message to their hearts content. Friends Reunited stuck to it's business model and with it suffered a decline in usage. This all happened as It's new owners ITV (2005) was having lots of problems elsewhere and what Friends Reunited had really needed at that time was a fresh company with the energy and the guts to react fast and change before it was too late.

Only now, years after Friends Reunited have watched new comers come and grow, have they finally made it free for you to message and receive messages from friends.

Friends Reunited has a big issue with thousands of dormant accounts, many who signed up originally will have changed their email address several times losing contact with the site. How annoying to finally be able to message your friends only to find out that they are no longer there to pick up your message. Careful management of dormant accounts is needed so that we do not have to sift through lots of dead wood to reach the occasional active one.

Friends Reunited are planning a multi-million marketing campaign to help them regain the ground loss to fresher rivals. This will hopefully tempt those who have been away holidaying on the Facebook beach to come back and see if there is anyone else out there who isn't also on Facebook.

Friends Reunited now needs to go the next step. Enable people to make their profile public - you currently have to be logged in to see any content - what better tool for driving traffic to the site than a million names on a search engine. Integration with other social networking sites would also drive usage. A Friends Reunited Facebook application is needed (if not already planned), a step to far for the owners at ITV maybe?

- Logoease : Générateur de logo élégant -Via Accessoweb

- MagToo : Ensemble de service pour la Photo (A voir) -Via MagToo

- TimeTube : La ligne de temps pour les vidéos YouTube -Via TechCruch

- All Search Box : Moteur de recherche tout en un -Via Vendeesign

- Pageonce : Votre assistant personnel sur internet ! -Via Weezonaute

- Yoono : Le moteur qui trouve ses résultats chez les internautes -Via 01.net

- Divvaflip : Plugin (WP) d’albums virtuel d’images en Flash -Via Fran6art

- VeoSearch : Moteur de recherche solidaire - Via Infos du Net

- Accord Google & Yahoo : Publicité contextuelle -Via Web-2-geek

- La BBC met à mal la confidentialité sur Facebook -Via Le Monde

Recently, I came across an inexpensive eBook (cost me $11) about using Facebook and I purchased it, downloaded it… and forgot about it.

Early last week I stumbled upon it while browsing through one of my folders. I decided to start browsing through it… so I thought. The next thing I knew, I ‘locked’ in on the material and I had to force myself to put it away, so I could go to bed.

The eBook I’m referring to is titled, “I’m on Facebook—Now What???” The authors are Jason Alba and Jesse Stay. Jason is a well-known social networker and Jesse is more of a social networking apps developer.

To say I was blown away by what I found in their little 100-page eBook is an understatement. If this book had been around in November of last year when I first signed onto Facebook, I could’ve saved myself months of frustration and staring at my empty profile asking myself, “OK, what do I do next?”

That’s one of the biggest questions I get from my Facebook friends. It’s not intuitively obvious how to get the ball rolling once you’ve signed up with Facebook. There are very few resources out there that can truly help you get up and running.

“I’m on Facebook—Now What???” is a gem for those still wondering, “What the heck do I do next?” And to be honest with you, there’s a lot for the more experienced Facebook users also.

Here’s a sampling of what you’ll find in this $11-goldmine of an eBook:

• How to set up your profile for maximum attraction, so that others will want to be friends with you.
• Learn the secret to making a good “first impression” on your profile or Page.
• Where to go to find potential friends, once you’ve gone through your Rolodex for the 10^th time.
• How to organize your friend list so that you can quickly find key friends in specific niches.
• Why you need to start your own group, if you’re really serious about building deeper relationships.
• How to use blogging to draw traffic to your Facebook profile.
• Simple steps to using News Feed and Mini-Feed to attract traffic to your profile and ultimately get more friends to join your network.
• Seven things you can do to create more buzz for your business on Facebook.
• How to tap into the power of applications and supercharge your social networking ability.
• Facebook No-Nos  - there are some unwritten rules you should be aware of… they may not get you kicked out, but they could certainly lead to embarrassment or shame down the road.
• Although there are no set ‘rules’ in regarding how you should behave on FB, Jason gives you 6 tips that will help you stay safe and avoid embarrassment and shame.

This book will help you come up with your own action strategy to get value out of Facebook. It will help you understand the possibilities with Facebook, as well as help you figure out what you need to do to optimize the use of this social networking tool.

If you’re still reading this message, you need this ‘cheap’ but valuable social media marketing power tool. If you’re a professionals interested in expanding your career, a marketer looking to sell more of your goods and services, a business owner looking for more customers/clients or anyone involved in promoting a cause (personal or business) through social networking – this could be the best $11 investment you ever make.

It was for me! I was so impressed that I became an affiliate and decided to share this resource with you. I’m very persnickety about what I recommend to my Network members – even it’s just $11. But I feel confident that you will like and appreciate this little eBook. You could be reading it within the next 5 minutes.

Enjoy and let me know what you think of the book. Post your comments on The Wall at the SMM Network.

Cheers!

Jim Turner

The transparent king from grave 750 announces a new competition on Facebook to celebrate collaboration. Visit the Adelsö and Björkö page and post what you like the king to say. There will be a great prize for the winner.

The King is intrigued by the fact that nearly 25% of Adelsö and Björkö's fans probably have difficulties understanding what all the blog posts is about. This is great since it makes you think about the internationality of the town of Birka as well.