Probably the smartest thing written about Facebook yet

The look not only at the most tweeted songs but assign a value to the tweeter, based on following/follower ratio, to find the good stuff.

Add contact information about yourself to be more findable. Take THAT, Facebook.

Anyone tasked with explaining Twitter to everyone else who doesn't get it should give this a few reads.

You send them a ping when something gets updated, they handle serving that data to everyone else. Smart, but I think a distributed push mechanism would work better.

Sort of a wiki to track what people are doing, minus the hoopla of FriendFeed

Over 500 edits, most of them from today, when it was released. Flex the hive mind.

Hot damn, I guess that's handy for something.

Zeldman has some sharp thoughts on the disappearing personal site as we instead opt for third party collection of our lives, be it Flickr, del.icio.us or twitter

Social bookmarking for photos and videos

Pointcast!

To build your widgets and social networking apps

Extracted from IMAP. Wicked cool.

Nicholas Carr on user-generated sharecropping after Bebo sells to AOL for $850M

Compared coverage of Castro stepping down across several social news sites, decides that mainstream news is still the best bet for breaking coverage. Curious that there was no talk of Newsvine.

Put some comments on the Tumblelog of yours

Ben got the baby out the door, nice work

"We had essentially short-circuited our rewards system by handing over all of the power to the whims of our fickle members."

Kara Swisher nails why Facebook is so overhyped. I'm one more "person I haven't seen in a decade just friended me" away from dropping my profile.

Sometimes, customers are your best resource

And, in classic Wikipedia fashion, Tekken 6 is edging out Mother Teresa

Sorta weird that it only shows your purchased music, not music you're playing in iTunes. Apple, I knew LastFM. LastFM was a friend of mine. You, My iTunes, are no LastFM.

New UI, OpenID, memcached out of the box, open source. Makes me sorta wish I had a blog...

Of course, places like MySpace and Facebook have built multi-million dolllar business models on making sure that your profiles are *not* portable so, uh, good luck with this one.

Some really, really smart thoughts on the Netflix Prize and recommender systems in general.

Map a route and find other people's routes

More importantly, they get Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt

"A theoretical maximum number of individuals with whom a set of people can maintain a social relationship, the kind of relationship that goes with knowing who each person is and how each person relates socially to every other person." It's 150, btw.

Some of these are brilliantly prescient, some are sadly off the mark ("There Will Be No Street Cars in Our Large Cities. All hurry traffic will be below or high above ground when brought within city limits.")

Record a quick video snippet, embed anywhere. From the makers of odeo and twitter, guaranteed to become as addictive as crack.

The next time this happens, it means that there have been 4.1 billion comments made, thus ushering in the end of humanity as we know it

Where's the nearest Netflix shipping station? (via Hacking Netflix)