I've been using the private beta for some time, and now this team (many ex Google), have raised a $5m, and the site is now open for registration.
If you like the newsfeed concept of Facebook, but don't like the application "noise", then maybe give it a try?
I like it.
Saying "goodbye" sometimes isn't easy! More concerns about retention of personal data makes the mainstream media.
Great quote from the Boston Globe article, "It's like the Hotel California," said Nipon Das, 34, a director at a biotechnology consulting firm in Manhattan. "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave."
The first of many? Another good reason to be wary of pimping out your Facebook profile!
Fortinet Global Security Research Team discovered a malicious Facebook Widget (officially, a "Platform Application") actively spreading on the social networking site which ultimately prompts users to install the infamous "Zango" adware/spyware.
FortiGuard Center - FortiGuard Advisory - Facebook Widget Installing Spyware
If you don't subscribe to PostSecret, an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard, you might want to. I have been since its inception as an early art show exhibit. Frank Warren (here's recent profile of Frank & PostSecret via Orato) posts each Sunday, and in amongst all your own fog and troubles, a review of the postcards can put much of our own mess in to a very different perspective.
What it is not is a Web 2.0 thing! It is however a riveting insight into often troubled minds of youth and adults of today, brought to us by the reach and anonymity of the web.
PostSecret has saved lives. Donate with cash in the UK or US or support by buying the books, and try and make sad stories like this (BBC video) not to appear so often.
Reports are that Facebook subscribers are now increasing at the rate of around 1m a week since they opened up the "applications" platform element, the first spike being when non-academia registration opened late 2006.
Here's an illustration of Facebook usage via a WSJ article, where even Murdoch recognises the rise of Facebook.
I continue to admire the BBC who, despite going through major change, don't hesitate to push the new media envelope, whether it's the via the recent Hack Day, a venture between BBC Backstage & Yahoo!, or this experiment combining Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter & del.icio.us, using the web social tools as a reporting platform to reach new audiences.
