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Francis Pisani – Twitter ““If Facebook continues to grow at its current pace, it will be bigger than Google in just a few years, says RBC .. http://tinyurl.com/ca77dl” 4 hours ago - the assumption is based upon a mere linear projection. A bit too simplistic hence far from convincing. - me

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dear diary

• 06:23 RT @Twitter_Tips SPEAK ANY LANGUAGE: New auto translator for Twitter ow.ly/19yk – tried in French, flaws of automatic translation #
• 06:28 Ah! at least I got a automatic message acknowledging my reporting a bug on #Facebook a second time around. Not holding my breath though. #
• 06:32 Renewed my account on Flickr. So far, this year being my third, I spent over $74 for maintaining it. #
• 13:02 The same problem again and again: what to write on a birthday card… Should I Google this? Lame, I know. #
• 15:07 Looking forward to: “Inhabitat » LIGHTS OUT: Earth Hour Goes Global on March 28th!” to be relayed. ( tinyurl.com/c5upao ) #
• 17:12 wants everyone to vote on the new Facebook layout: tinyurl.com/dxhpzy #
• 17:37 Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Undo Send ff.im/-1D8Ro #
• 17:37 “Sometimes I regret sending a message the morning after. Other times I send a message and then immediately… re: ff.im/1D8Ro #
• 19:42 u2 “unforgettable fire” ♫ twt.fm/7475 #twtfm #
• 19:45 Still prefect Blip.fm or Last.fm as I don’t honestly see what value this site adds really. re: ff.im/1BpiM #
• 20:13 twtfmradio (twtfm radio):u2 “unforgettable fire” ♫ twt.fm/7475 was broadcasted by @lelapin / ReTweet ♥… ff.im/-1DjWn #
• 21:24 Blip.fm | Global Music Radar | Page 1 of 2369 ff.im/-1Doun #
• 21:30 Don’t know which makes me the happiest: first day of Spring (still plenty of snow though) or that it’s Friday… #
• 22:05 Toto – Africa ff.im/-1Dr62 #
• 22:10 Various – Danny Boy Richard Stoltzman – clarinet ff.im/-1Dr67 #
• 22:41 ȺÐÇ – Satie Gymnopedie No1 ff.im/-1Dtnm #
• 23:54 20 Useful Typography Tools: In this article, you’ll find 20 tools for working with typography. re: ff.im/1DxOW #
• 00:00 Are you looking for an easy way to upload your TwitPic images to Flickr? Stop looking, TwitPickr is all you need! twitpickr.com/ #

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Facebook Poll: 94% Of Users Don’t Like Redesign

A Facebook application is polling users on the the new site layout . So far, just over 5% of the nearly 800,000 respondents give it a thumbs up. The rest go the other way. Users can also leave comments with their thoughts. Recent user comments include “Missing so many features I used to adore.

I am saddened,” “Please change it back to the way it was,” and “I hate it and if it doesn’t change I will only check it once in awhile.” Ah, the fickle user.

Until January users and advertisers could create polls directly within Facebook, and the company used them extensively at the Davos World Economic Forum. It would be great it they brought that feature back directly.

Facebook Poll: 94% Of Users Don’t Like Redesign.

dear diary

• 06:56 just completed a zillion questions survey. I never do except this time there was a $25 gift certificate incentive… for charity [Kiva] mind you,  I’m not that cheap ^_^ #
• 07:06 Netbooks Offer a Chance to Challenge Windows’ Long Reign | Gadget Lab from Wired.com ff.im/-1o544 #
• 07:27 after GTDTiddly here is another spin off of Tiddlywiki: TiddlyDu2 with calendars in it, looks interesting. re: ff.im/1o5OD #
• 07:46 Doors – People Are Strange ff.im/-1o6BS #
• 08:17 Lhasa de Sela – Small Song ff.im/-1o7Od #
• 08:50 Kansas – Dust In The Wind ff.im/-1o8Ys #
• 14:04 I’m so starving i’m about to faint. I let lunch time pass and now the stomack is making me pay. #
• 14:22 The dude sitting next table can’t drink his beer fast enough. I wish he went away some place to sober up. #
• 14:38 Funny, same song “under my thumb” I was listening to this morning, aired now at MrJones. #
• 19:01 The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Take Five ff.im/-1ovDj #
• 19:01 Stranglers – Golden Brown ff.im/-1ovDh #
• 23:00 On Facebook news feeds from pages I’m fan of show up as news feeds like the ones so called ‘friends’ post now? This promises a huge noise, I’m not sure it’s a good idea…,  #

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• See friends’ Facebook statuses on your Twitter timeline « Mortlemania

  • Update your Facebook status selectively via Twitter:

    This has been fairly widely covered, but I’ll run through it here again for good measure. If you tick the standard Twitter-Facebook ‘Allow Twitter to update my status…’ permission box, your Facebook status will be crudely updated by *every* tweet you send, which can be confusing and annoying for your non-geeky Facebook friends.

    Instead, find and install the Facebook application Twittersync and go to the settings page. Set it up to filter your tweets as required, then it will only update your Facebook status with your selected tweets.  You can use regex if you want to get clever about it, but I simply put an ‘@’ in the “‘Filter tweets containing” box. That automatically filters out any tweets containing @replies or references to other twitter usernames. If I then want to filter out other geeky tweets, I simply make sure I stick an ‘@’ character in them somewhere.

• Work From Stimulus Package to Add Some Speed to Trains – NYTimes.com

  • The Acela is the United States’ fastest train. But because the tracks it runs on are curvy, and are shared with many other trains, it is only able to reach its top speed of 150 m.p.h. on about 35 miles of track in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Its average speed is 84 m.p.h. between New York and Washington.

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mashable: Facebook’s Monetization Plan? Polls. And Lots Of Them (via Mashable!) [...] http://tinyurl.com/aqg7ub

mashable – Mashable! Facebook’s Monetization Plan? Polls. And Lots Of Them 14 hours ago - Comment - Like jswi_jim, Mauricio Reyes, I love this gay! and 2 other people liked this “Facebook has a much better monetization strategy than competing social networks; as many have guessed, they’re methodically turning their user base into a huge marketing tool. Remind me again, why am I a part of all this?” – Next cool website that comes along and bam, FB is history. An example: MySpace comes to mind. – lelapin

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Facebook should be embraced by offices – Telegraph

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

“Banning Facebook and the like goes against the grain of how people want to interact,” said Peter Bradwell, author of the Demos report.

“Often people are friends with colleagues through these networks and it is how some develop their relationships.

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calling someone

I just wrote a comment to a post from some so called specialist of …”networks, be they cultural, social, scientific or of computers” who is a regular contributor on Le Monde, no less, and even, recently, co-wrote a book “how does the web change the world“.

People, when they have the nerve to declare themselves specialists but know so little about anything should definitely be called on their … not deception really, voidness rather if this means something.

I simply asked: “how about [name of its group] on Facebook” ?

Apparently the number of people there has dramatically decreased since I last join in. No wonder: zero activity, no answer to questions, no new topics. Nada, niente.

I used to enjoy reading his posts until I realized he knew nothing or, let put it this way, he’s just conveying/mirroring what others found and made posts about, he superficially grazes the surface of things.

My comment was an answer to him writing about having recently joined Twitter. The new trend.

*Rolling eyes*

tricky question

Someone, bored at work, posted “ask me a question, I’ll answer it as honestly as possible”. He’s not in list of direct friends but I syndicated his blog a good while back and enjoy his, not so frequent, posts.

Here’s what I came up with:

If, by magic, you were given one quality (that you think you don’t have or too little of it) but at the expense of another one (that you think you have) what would the two be?

I also made a note of it on my profile on FB and tagged just about every contacts I have there.

This helped me forget about the lame sentence Régis said to me during the ride back to Rauma. Out of the blue but so in line with what everybody so firmly believes is true: you’re single, you have no kids so…. He, later, kind of joked about the whole thing but the damage is done; I can bear grudges until I forget the root reason that caused it.

online poll

The question was/is: Which of these would make you the most likely to vote?
- weekend voting
- online voting
- provide incentives to vote
- legal requirement to vote (kind of strange to read this since, if it was a legal requirement, one would definitely have to vote).
Alright, it’s on Facebook only so, by definition, people there are online, and statistics would certainly show that a vast majority of them have a so called life online therefore they do not represent a country only a fraction.

Still…