Dylan Davis published a method of routing the Facebook update statuses of both you and your friends to Twitter a few days ago as a Facebook note. I thought this was something people might be interested in trying out, and Dylan was happy to let me republish his update status routing recipe. Enjoy! Here's a recipe for routing all your and your friend's Status updates from ... Read full entry

A list of jobs where you could utilise the knowledge, and networks, you have acquired through the use of social networks and micro-blogging websites, such as Facebook and Twitter. Pity the college kids who are readying themselves for the boredom of working in an office where online profile views are sharply limited or not allowed. Don't they know that there are jobs that demand this stuff? More and more ... Read full entry

If you thought social network hi5 was a has-been, think again. In the six months from December 2007 to June 2008, hi5 experienced almost 80 per cent growth, twice as much as Facebook, and is now ranked the world's third most popular social network. hi5 enjoys a large membership across Latin American, European, Asian and African countries. Facebook and hi5 are winning the vast majority of new users coming ... Read full entry

I'm starting to wonder if the new Facebook, which looks all very dandy by the way, has been especially optimised for use with Internet Explorer. "Optimisation" harks back to the days of Web 1.0, when websites used to bear, on their splashscreens (remember those?) notices announcing that the site was better suited, or optimised, to a certain browser, usually IE, or the old Netscape browser. Then there were the ... Read full entry

An explanation of the so-called "white screen of death", something I see a bit of while logged in to Facebook, to name one example. Especially common to websites, or applications, that are PHP powered... which, hmm, includes disassociated. A web application powered by the scripting language PHP will display an empty white page in the browser under certain conditions. If the PHP installation suppresses ... Read full entry

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says bad applications have had their day on the world's favourite social network. "We've made a lot of mistakes and there is a lot we have to learn," Zuckerberg said. "We haven't done enough to reward the good citizens in our ecosystem and, on the flip side, we haven't done enough to punish the applications that have been abusive." Incidentally, the "ecosystem" Zuckerberg refers to is ... Read full entry

Social networking applications can pose security risks Your Facebook profile may be set to private, and you only accept friend requests from people you actually know, but still your private data can fall into the hands of undesirables by way of... applications. While the mind boggles at what might be here, one result of application harvested personal information appears to be targeted advertising, and high precision ad targeting at that. Jonathan Gaugler, ... Read full entry

Real People Don't Have Time for Social Media Just when everything was going so well, this comes along and upsets my perception of reality. If we're going to recommend a service or activity to a friend whose alarm goes off at 6 AM and doesn't return home from the office until 6 PM, then we need to respect that their "spare" time is precious. Whatever new app or service we're trying ... Read full entry

Oxford University fines students with the aid of Facebook Nevermind your Facebook shenanigans affecting your prospects of finding a job... Oxford University has been searching the Facebook profiles of recent graduates looking for photographic and video evidence of "trashing", a tradition whereby students hurl mess-making substances such as flour and eggs, at each other. Proctors at Oxford University have fined graduating students more than £10,000 for their post-exam celebrations - with ... Read full entry

I didn't intentionally look her up, or attempt to cyber-stalk her, or anything creepy, honest, but there she was, I just stumbled upon her, an ex-girlfriend on Facebook. In my defence she uses some sort of nick name (that I never knew her by) as her screen name, so the discovery of her profile was completely coincidental. Not that I'm the least bit insecure about finding her page. No way, ... Read full entry