Facebook seems to be coming up everywhere the past few weeks. The most recent, which finally got me to post, was a Stephen Downes post - I'm Majoring in Facebook, How about You? The class has each student creating applications in Facebook and presenting to potential investors. Why is Facebook so hot right now? MORE >>

The inner geek in me rose this morning as I found these great animations, graphs in a post from Mashable – visual representations of the links between friends on Facebook. Tags: Technology and Creativity social networking Eye candy indeed – or of a galaxy really, really close to me. Why not make your own? MORE >>

In his presentation Mark starts with his long relationship with programming and finally moves on to describe his project Plexus , which will provide a new platform for social networks. First and most important is the social graph, a database of connections known as the ‘Plex’. diaspora facebook plexus socialnetworks MORE >>

I recently joined Facebook. ”  If you search for me on Google, say “ John Battelle Facebook ,” you see that I am already there , and that I have nearly 5000 “friends.” ” (The interplay between Google search and Facebook is worthy of an entire treatise, I’ll leave that for later). MORE >>

As Meryl wrote a few days ago, LinkedIn and Facebook are excellent business networking tools. Both sites offer useful ways of connecting with people you know, who you can ask to become part of your network. Facebook: Friend Request Pending. Do you know why your invitations to connect are still pending? MORE >>