Post by Pieter in "Humor".
Today’s Facebook Fail Friday was picked up by Blippitt, and illustrates how some people still don’t get an “ancient” communication medium like television.
Post by Pieter in "Humor".
A few months ago, we Googled for the programming information of one of our fave television series, Dexter, and in the top search results was a Google News item with a headline that blatantly mentioned which cast member got killed in the season 4 finale. EPIC FAIL. We hadn’t seen the episode yet.
Post by Pieter in "Wall posts".
These days, you don’t need a million dollar video with Pam Anderson in it to promote your song. A single page website will do. The quirky Swedish band Fulkultur’s nailed it with their website called The Ugly Dance, which allows you to bust your virtual moves to their ridiculously catchy song with the same name.
Post by Pieter in "Humor, Status updates".
We already know how World War II would’ve looked like if Facebook were around at the time, and now Cool Material has taken some other historical moments and turned them into status updates.
Post by Pieter in "Applications, Status updates".
Emoticons are inherent to online chat and instant messaging, but did you know you can insert emoticons into your Facebook status updates too? A Facebook application called Status Emoticon enables users to include cute, little, and in some cases even animated emoticons in your status updates or wall posts to a friend.
Post by Pieter in "News".
Our imagination may run wild sometimes when it comes to analyzing logos, images and icons, but what we want to show you today is the undeniable truth. Let’s take a look at the Facebook iPhone app icon of the just launched Facebook Places feature.
Post by Pieter in "Privacy & security".
Scam applications, including The Official Dislike Button and Dislikebutton, are currently luring people into completing an online survey in order to get access to a Dislike-button browser add-on that’s already freely available at Mozilla.com.
Post by Pieter in "Video".
Jamaican singer/rapper/songwriter Mark Smith aka DJ Lantan is one of the many auditioners on Must Be The Music, a British singing competition that airs on SKY1. With his rather repetitive dance song, Facebook Love, he tries to woo the celebrity jury with his talent.
Post by Pieter in "Status updates".
We’re probably the last ones who haven’t seen this summer’s hit movie yet, but Inception seems to be on everybody’s lips the past few weeks. The Christopher Nolan movie about dream invasion stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ellen “Juno” Page, and has grossed $228 million at the box office already.
Post by Pieter in "Status updates, Wall posts".
The medium is the message, but it doesn’t always fit the content of the message. Sometimes the tiny, black font of Facebook status updates and wall comments is just too dull for the thing you want to scream out of your virtual lungs. Big Ass Message solves this problem for you, by offering a simple way to make something clear in a full-on and in-your-face manner.
Post by Pieter in "Humor".
Don’t take this personal, all you screenagers reading this, but here’s a Facebook joke we found rather funny based on the popular “how many [insert type of person here] does it take to change a light bulb?” meme.
Post by Pieter in "Humor".
You’ll only get this one if you know the Spanish-born French singer Manu Chao and a bit of Spanish, but here’s a screenshot of a fake Manu Chao status update we thought was clever. If you listen to the song below, you’ll see that Manu Chao likes A LOT.
Post by Pieter in "Hacks & tricks".
It’s the end of an era, as in the next 48 hours the infamous Facebook gifts will cease to be a commodity. Earlier, Facebook announced that it will shut down the gifts feature so the company could spend its valuable development resources on more important sections of the social network. Even the most popular website in the universe has to do some cutbacks, go figure!
Post by Pieter in "News".
Earlier this week, Kanye West stopped by the Facebook HQ in Palo Alto, California, to offer a preview of some brand new songs on his upcoming album (presumably called “Good Ass Job”). He performed the raps a capella while standing on a table in front of tons of Facebook employees.