i don't agree with everything in this paper ("never break news on twitter before on your own website"), helpful read nevertheless.

"Stories from The Onion as interpreted by Facebook"

"Facebook’s systems serve 1.2 million photos per second."

"This is what people you know like on the internet right now"

"My fight is not with the iPad, but with the old-school media publishers."

"Ilse Aigner macht es vor, wir machen es besser."

"BBC journalists must keep up with technological change - or leave, the director of BBC Global News Peter Horrocks says"

"arschiges verhalten ist beim spiegel OK, bei anderen ist es vergleichbar mit dem wirken eines polizeistaates. wobei, das argument ist ja bekannt. journalisten und „qualitätsmedien“ wie der spiegel verdammen ja alles was keine ordentliche redaktion vorweisen kann. denn die redaktion stellt sicher, dass keine fehler passieren, keine persönlichkeitsrechte verletzt werden, keine peinlichen bilder gezeigt werden und keine existenzen vernichtet werden. ausser es besteht ein journalistisches interesse daran. oder so."

"Create your online card: Make your "tiny" portfolio online in which you'll be able to integrate your networks (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.), a little about you and how to contact you. Choose between many nice skins and features."

..twitter revolt coming to a conference back channel near you...

"The application is a kind of political badge which members put on their Facebook pages, showing their political leanings from liberal to conservative."

"As users, our identity, photos, videos and other forms of personal data should be discoverable by, and shared between our chosen tools or vendors. We need a DHCP for Identity. A distributed File System for data."

"We don't want to have the same application on multiple social networks. We want applications that can use data from multiple social networks. And data mobility is a key to that."

"Over the last five or six years we've seen a tremendous shift in power from destination sites to search."

"Can more targeted pitches on Facebook and other sites reverse the shrinking response to online ads?"

"Google has announced their OpenSocial Alliance, a way for developers to build social applications that span more than one social network. (...) Now comes word that MySpace is joining, which would make everyone except Facebook a part of the alliance."

"Why exactly do I need Facebook to get inbetween me and my address book?"

"I have narrowly - narrowly - avoided joining Facebook due, in large part, to my face."