I’m getting bored of Facebook too. I love the communication element there, but unfortunately some of the applications are annoying. Facebook changed a lot since it’s launch but not enough to make me excited.
I was browsing through Facebook and realized that the NTU Zi Char Uncle starts Facebook too.
Got Facebook group some more.
Nowadays more and more advanced already. And you thought Zi Char Uncle only know how to cook your sin chow mee hoon? Uncle now know social-networking okay?
I love watching my requests grow longer and longer cos it just looks so dumb each time I log in.
Then
Now
Seems like I can’t already.
Let’s watch my Facebook request grow longer:
(Facebook requests are getting longer and longer. I wonder how long they would grow. Click to expand the picture.)
Now I have to scroll the bloody thing and my screen resolution is 1680 x 1050. Now I don’t ignore, just waiting for the list to grow, quite fun watching that somehow.
Look what’s happen to my Facebook homepage. It looks ridiculous now, so many application invites:
Hate the vampires, the pirates, the werewolves and the ninjas. Facebook is additive though. 
Microsoft is in talks to buy Facebook stake
SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft Corp. is in talks with Facebook Inc. about making an investment in the social-networking startup that could value Facebook at $10 billion or more, according to people familiar with the matter.
Microsoft’s approach to Facebook in recent weeks with proposals to invest in the fast-growing site is part of the software giant’s effort to catch up with the Internet rival Google. If successful, Microsoft’s talks with Facebook could give it an up-to-5% stake in the closely-held startup — a stake potentially valued at roughly $300 million to $500 million, the people familiar with those talks said.
The people familiar with the matter said that the discussions are still preliminary and Facebook could wind up not taking an investment from either Microsoft or Google. Factors in the discussions include the valuation the suitors would offer to Facebook and other business considerations they could contribute to sweeten any deal.
A Facebook spokeswoman and spokesmen for Microsoft and Google declined to comment.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Microsoft previously had an arrangement to serve advertisements at Facebook. Social Networking is kinda the in thing this year, isn’t it? Google has Orkut already, although the membership haven’t been exactly impressive. Somehow Facebook just have something special I guess.
Everyone is talking about Web 2.0 these days. Honestly, I don’t really like to use that term a lot as it has been overused and has, in my opinion, kinda lost its meaning.
Today, Web 2.0 can mean anything - video content, social networking, social news, social bookmarking, Ajax, Prototype libraries, JSON, accordion visual effects, mash-ups, Ruby on Rails, XML, and whatever.
It’s a marketing term for any webservice that is published after 2005. Google managed to revolutionize the way people understand ‘beta’. Today, some products is following some sort of a perpectual beta idea, meaning it’s just beta forever. That, once again, is pure marketing.
(Facebook has communities for Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Web 4.0, Web 5.0 and in case you haven’t noticed - Web �??.0.)
Has the web really changed that much? Sure it has, but it didn’t just come overnight. It came a long way and Web 2.0 describes the awakening - the awakening of ordinary people such as my mom and my elephant - and the reintroduction of these technologies. Magazines that cover whatever Web 2.0 ideas are selling like hotcakes and if you actually read a couple of them you’ll realize none is particularly clear of what Web 2.0 is.
Because it just is so many things! But ultimately, I think Web 2.0 is about you and me addicted to connecting and sharing information. It’s as if we allow ourselves to be part of a whole movement. Just thinking of that scares me, but the thought never fails to make me tingle with excitement.