the usual story of fucking up and learning the hard way.

Geo-location is quickly gaining ground, but until it reaches critical mass the odds of randomly running into a friend for an impromptu get together are so low I doubt many people will take the time to manually update their location.

crass marketing scheme by 3

"Playfish now has over 10 million monthly active users on Facebook (around 1.5 million daily) and two billion monthly minutes of play time in under a year." cripes! games must be getting far more attention than tv...

Top 25 social games on Facebook. For reference.

Some cracking videos here from Shirky and Boyd; the best speakers around on social software.

Why are people so scared of technology? it's totally interwoven into society now, that its far better to teach kids how to use it effectively for both socio-personal and academic development rather than to blame it for suicide.

IM through Facebook. Only a matter of time, really. A no-brainer! Facebook open all day now. Where will this lead to? will there be the option for more sophisticated levels of presencing? group conversations, display names etc etc