Facebook Flyer test results  —  I was preparing for my Graphing Social Patterns speech on Facebook marketing last night and decided to try out Facebook Flyers, which allows members to create their own little display ads that shows up in the left navigation bar.

Source:   Groundswell (Incorporating Charlene Li’s Blog)
Author:   Charlene Li
Link:   http://blogs.forrester.com/charleneli/2007/10…

Graphing social patterns with Linkedin’s Reid Hoffman  —  Speaking the Graphing Social Patterns conference (covering the business and technology of Facebook) in San Jose today, Linkedin founder and chairman Reid Hoffman poured cold water on the notion that a single social graph would prevail.

Source:   Between the Lines
Author:   Dan Farber
Link:   http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6543

Google’s Orkut: A World of Ambition  —  Seizing on Orkut’s momentum in Asia and Latin America, Google moves to revamp its social networking site and take aim at Facebook and MySpace  —  If it’s not about MySpace and Facebook, then the breathless buzz that surrounds online social networking often gravitates …

Source:   Business Week
Author:   […]

Facebook’s fbFund Takes a Mulligan - Requires All Applications to be Resubmitted  —  When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his new application developer grant program, fbFund, at TechCrunch40, everyone clapped (including me).  I did have some concerns immediately and one of them was right …

Source:   CenterNetworks -
Author:   Allen Stern
Link:   http://www.centernetworks.com/facebook-fbfund-mulligan

Forsee Steps Down As Chairman, CEO of Sprint Nextel  —James Hance, Jr. to serve as acting chairman; Paul Saleh named acting CEO  —Company conducting outside search for new CEO  —Company updates 2007 financial guidance  —  Contacts:  —  Media Relations  —  Leigh Horner, 703-433-3044

Source:   Sprint
Link:   http://www2.sprint.com/mr/news_dtl.do?id=18200

Why I Won’t Buy an iPhone  —  Apple has abandoned its founding ethos of creativity and innovation by hanging up on third-party software developers  —  I don’t own an iPhone, and I don’t think I ever will.  That may come as a surprise to anyone acquainted with my long history of owning and liking Apple […]

Announcing a preliminary iPhone 1.1.1 Jailbreak  —  The iPhone/iTouch Dev guys have been hard at work for weeks and have finally managed to jailbreak 1.1.1.  Right now, they’re nowhere near releasing a general-use tool but the first steps have been made.  Congratulations to dinopio, asap18 …

Source:   The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Author:   Erica Sadun
Link: […]

YouTube: The Big Copyright Lie  —  I’m a big YouTube fan.  —  We can thank YouTube for cutting the gordian knot of video codecs.  Instead of futzing around with codecs and media players, YouTube’s universal, Flash-based web video “just works”.  After all this time, it turns out the killer app …

Source:   Coding Horror
Author:   […]

Microsoft’s Ballmer: Google Reads Your Mail  —  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took a knock at one of his chief rivals during a speech to an audience in the U.K., saying Google reads customer email as part of a failed bid to drive ad-based revenue.  —  The software giant’s chief made the remarks during …

Source:   […]

Holiday Consoles Include Two Free Games  —  Xbox® is rewarding holiday console buyers this season with two free games!  Hot on the heels of a price reduction for all Xbox 360™ consoles, Microsoft is now giving holiday buyers even more value by including two great games …

Source:   Xbox.com | Xbox.com Home
Link:   http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/news/2007/1008…