Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Having Trouble Dropping the Past

  Published: July 24, 2007, 2:19 am

  Tags: Divorced, Divorce, Facebook, Separated, Separation, Communication

  girlfriend posted on his Facebook page. Today, in response to my discovery of the girlfriend Facebook posting, I sent my ex an email through Facebook's "Send Message" feature. I sent a message that included the following excerpt, "I can not change the outcome of his actions--carpe diem is his mantra. I do however have the power to look

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• Merlin on TWiT 101: Moon over Google

  Published: June 18, 2007, 6:06 am

  Tags: Productivity, Elsewhere, Podcasts, Denise Howell, Facebook, Leo Laporte, Merlin Mann, Michael Moore, Safari, Sicko, Steve Gibson, Twit, Twit Tv, Wil Harris

  Leo has begun to use Facebook for only people he knows personally. Facebook has recently allowed for applications which enticed Leo. The People Aggregator will allow you to create a social network using your login from another social network. Create your own social network with Ning. Steve Jobs keynoted the WWDC conference announcing

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• How Much Is A Facebook User Worth? At Least $0.30

  Published: July 27, 2007, 6:42 pm

  Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Facebook, Fbexchange, Lookery, Rockyou

  others’ ads on your facebook application and build up credits, which can then be used to run your own ads on other apps. It’s a cheap and easy way to get exposure for your application, should the viral Facebook machine not create enough growth to keep you happy. See GigaOm for more. The company says they’ve booked $200k in

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• Now We're Not Talking: Telstra Bans Facebook

  Published: July 27, 2007, 4:12 am

  Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Facebook

  worldwide popularity of Facebook as a corporate tool. German company and international electronics powerhouse Siemens already has 6000 employees using Facebook, with plans to deliver exclusive Facebook apps for employee use in the future. According to Robert Scoble, Facebook could well become a substitute for Siemen’s corporate

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• Facebook Extreme Stress Test (Image)

  Published: July 28, 2007, 7:22 am

  Tags: Mashable, Facebook, Social Networking, Social Software

  How many Facebook applications is too many? With people adding unnecessary apps to their profiles at a blistering pace, we wondered just how far you could push the limits; from the Abe Vigoda dead or alive indicator to Ploppy, the app for sharing the current state of your poop, we added hundreds of ‘em. This screen capture shows what

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• RockYou Launches Super Wall API, Facebook Ad Network

  Published: July 27, 2007, 6:21 pm

  Tags: Mashable, Facebook, Social Networking, Social Software

  is very meta: an API for a Facebook application. RockYou is releasing an API for Super Wall, its popular Facebook app that puts videos, audio, pictures and Flash embeds on the Facebook wall. (Facebook may have just rendered the product useless, however - while RockYou replaces your wall with an entirely new one and makes you remove the

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• BarBook Facebook App Lets You Find Venues & Friends

  Published: July 27, 2007, 1:26 am

  Tags: Facebook, Social Networking, Web 2 0

  your BarBook profile within Facebook, as well as your Facebook profile wall. Each venue has a profile as well, where you can read and submit comments, and edit information about the venue (for example, upload an image). This allows you to meet others on Facebook, and find recommended places to go. While there is a leaderboard for the most

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• 5 Money Making Opportunities on Facebook

  Published: July 26, 2007, 10:49 pm

  Tags: Facebook, Mashable, Social Networking, Social Software, Apis, Web 2 0

  ways to monetize their Facebook applications. The curse of instant online success is that you can no longer sustain expensive servers to support hundreds and thousands (or even millions) of Facebook users. The question: how can the developers of Facebook apps actually make money? We don’t have all the answers yet, but here are 5

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• Shel Israel and Facebook

  Published: July 22, 2007, 12:58 pm

  Tags: Facebook Robert Scoble Shel Israel

  Shel Israel, co-author with Robert Scoble of the best selling book 'Naked Conversations:How blogs are changing the way business talks with customers' has just become a fan of Facebook. Robert is too!

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• Facebook comes of business age

  Published: July 21, 2007, 1:09 pm

  Tags: Facebook Linkedin

  six weeks ago I got another Facebook invite and too the plunge. I am hooked. I love some of the neat applications but most of all I like the way it helps me keep in touch and know a bit more about friends - their interests, tastes and hobbies. Nothing too heavy but enough to know what interests them. I have already used it to seek

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• Social Media tools in action

  Published: July 20, 2007, 4:16 am

  Tags: Customer Engagement Edelman Facebook Myspace Social Media Web 2 0 Marketing Improvement Europe

  Facebook/MySpace and Web 2 tools. This is a very interesting development. TripAdvisor is great. I use it all the time but sometimes I would like to know a bit more about the reviewer so I can weigh-up the value of their comments but they hide behind a name without any personal data. So

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• Facebook rules - OK?

  Published: July 18, 2007, 8:38 am

  Tags: Facebook

  'How many of you are using Facebook'. I would say we had 80% of the 40 attendees hands up saying they did. When asked if they were using Facebook 3 months ago only two people put their hands up. That is an amazing level of take up in a short period of time. It remains to be seen if the momentum of signing up

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• Wiggling to 3m turnover per year - how a small business went global

  Published: July 9, 2007, 11:46 am

  Tags: Facebook Podcast Wiggly Wigglers Heather Gorringe

  media and now has its own Facebook group.

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• Social media - teenagers heavy users

  Published: July 9, 2007, 8:56 am

  Tags: Facebook Social Media Web 2 0

  mentioned a number of times. Facebook was mentioned more positively than MySpace. What was also interesting was their reaction to advertising. They uniformily hated irrelevant intrusive adverts but for things they expressed an interest in or considered relevant they were happy to receive.

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• Social Media networks - a job salary premium?

  Published: June 22, 2007, 3:45 am

  Tags: Facebook Myspace Personal Thoughts Social Media

  to on mobiles and now facebook, MySpace and their other social media sites. Their network of contacts is vast. Far in excess of mine at their age. They are also much more active. Technology lets them be.   Now when will the first job vacancy advert appear that has a job requirements

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