Posts in category: 'Facebook'

New Platform Consulting Products: Amazon, Facebook, and Fixed-Cost Engagements

Published by jeffrey on October 1, 2008 under Amazon, Business, Collaboration, Content, Community, Facebook, Web/Tech, Work

Just posted three new categories of consulting practices over on the consulting web site:

The Facebook and Amazon practices actually aren’t new, but we’ve packaged them up in the form of consulting practices and put them on the web site for the first time.

Fixed-priced consulting is a way for certain types of businesses (particularly startups that haven’t released a product yet) to engage with us on certain focused topics (mostly related to platform strategy and developer adoption) without having to fret too much about what it will cost.

We’re launching these practices at the same time because they’re somewhat related. The Facebook/Amazon EC2 in particular is powerful mojo; we’re just about to release a Facebook application for a client that uses Facebook and EC2 together.

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He Said, She Said - Which Is It? Facebook Asks

Published by jeffrey on June 27, 2008 under Facebook

Link: He Said, She Said - Which Is It? Facebook Asks

Social network site Facebook will press members to declare whether they are male or female, seeking to end the grammatical device that leads the site to refer to individual users as “they” or “themself.”

The Internet phenomenon, which boasts 80 million users worldwide, exploded in popularity over the past year as a convenient way for Web users to communicate and share personal details with selected groups of friends or acquaintances.

But grammatical errors in the automated messages Facebook uses to personalize pronouns when members share information with their friends have proliferated since the site expanded from English-only into 15 new languages in recent months.

Horse hockey. This has nothing to do with grammar and everything to do with contextual advertising.

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Chering is caring

Published by jeffrey on May 16, 2008 under Facebook, The Funny

I wrote this back in February and I just realized I only told a few people about it. It’s a Greasemonkey script that mucks with the standard text display of the Facebook “Share” link. (It’s really just a silly joke.)

The instructions:

Step 1: Install the Greasemonkey extension for Firefox from here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/748/

Step 2: Click here to install the script:

http://files.approver.com/public/cher.user.js

Step 3: Go to a page that contains Share links such as
http://www.facebook.com/barackobama and bask in the enhancement.

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