Facebook wants to make the data its members enter into the social network’s profiles portable, so that they can move that data to other online services if they want, the company’s CEO said Wednesday. It’s already possible to take some data out of Facebook for use in third party applications (but not store it), but …
Darth Vader here demonstrates just how corrupting an influence power can be: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YwLQSTo_ow]
From The Daily WTF
This article from O’Reilly on the long tail of Facebook applications ties in with some of the comments I made on the Exponetic blog a few weeks ago comparing Web 1.0’s history with Facebook’s own progress. The key points are: Some applications are getting huge traffic The majority of applications aren’t Only 45 applications have …
It’s good to see the Rubik’s Cube going strong after all these years. “Nakajima solved the classic 3×3 version of the six-coloured cube – which has nine squares on each side – with an average time of 12.46 seconds in five attempts.” “None were able to beat the world record of 9.86 seconds set by …
The Ig Nobel awards are out, and a great collection of flagrant abuse of science they are too. My favourite is the awards in the linguistics category: “Juant Manuel Toro, Josep Trobalon and Núria Sebastián-Gallés, of Barcelona University, for showing that rats cannot tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese backwards and a person …
This article in the New York Times actually has a fairly level-headed view of the Facebook application market and how much money can be made from it. It’s quite a rare thing to find a level-headed opinion about an over-hyped subject in mainstream journalism, so quite refreshing. It also makes quite a few good points …
How many of these are real? Who can say. Letters to God