There has been a lot of discussion of the massive data set that Pete Warden has been collecting from Facebook and the initial visualization of American groupings of people, based on their friends and other profile information. And the first place I looked was my own network. MORE >>

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 >>

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. The idea of an open, distributed social network is something I’ve considered and hoped for for many years. diaspora facebook plexus socialnetworks MORE >>

Anyone using Facebook probably has a hard time keeping track of all the changes and updates to the service. Even those of us who use Facebook for business are hard-pressed to keep up. Not interested in having a Facebook account of your own (a personal profile)? Create a  Facebook Ad or  Facebook Page. Voila! MORE >>

Last year, I looked into the way companies are using Enhanced Facebook Pages as a way to beef up the branding and interactivity available with Facebook’s default Page settings. And I also made a list of ten third-party applications that you could use to enhance Facebook Pages, based on what was available at the time. MORE >>