Riot police stormed a 30th birthday party for just 15 people and shut it down, thinking it was a rave because it was advertised as “an all-night party” on Facebook. The party was organised by Mr. Poole, a coach driver, using the create an event facility on Facebook, through which he invited 17 family members and friends.

With Facebook reaching the milestone of 250 million worldwide users this month, it’s time for some updated user statistics for July 2009 about general growth, user engagement, Facebook applications, international growth, etc.

Verizon Communications (US) this week launched the Widget Bazaar, a virtual application store which gives its television service subscribers more ways to engage with TV content. One of the first widgets available integrates Facebook on the customer’s television set.

1) Get on the ground, face down.
2) The palms of your hands flat against your side.
3) The tips of your toes pointing at the ground.
4) Just as if you were standing, but vertically challenged.

Fans of Harry Potter, and that should be a lot, can use our Random Name Generators to “obliviate their muggle name” and “transfigurate” into a Harry Potter character. Just approve the application and select “Your Harry Potter wizard name” (if you’re a dude) or “Your Harry Potter witch name” (if you’re a dudette) from the menu of name generators.

OK, you got me: it’s not Saturday at all. But I was gone for the weekend and did not have a chance to post our weekly selection of funny Facebook Status Updates yet. Promise is debt, so I’ve given the today’s statuses considerable thought.

This Facebook note is the ultimate test to see if you’re a real movie maniac. We collected the list of top hundred movies from IMDB’s Top 250, as voted by users of the popular online movie database. Go through the list, check the ones you’ve seen and count them all up.

Did you know that over 8 million users become fans of Facebook Pages every day? Facebook has just added a free Widget for Facebook Page administrators, called the Fan Box. The Fan Box can show the number of fans a page has (up to 100), recent posts from the Page and a 1-click Become a fan button.

Anarchy In Your Head is a web comic by Dale Everett, going by the motto: “when it comes to politics, we hate everything”. Dale guarantees his readers: “sooner or later we’re bound to make fun of someone or something you hate”. He composed a tag your friends collage with some of the recurring characters from his comics.

Yep, it eventually happened to me. My mom joined Facebook today. Originally just to view some photo albums from family members, but I checked her profile three hours after she joined and she had already updated her favorite movies, books and music. Poor mom, she’s gonna get so awfully addicted over the next few days.

There’s a free “King of Pop” Glove gift available for sharing with all your MJ-loving Facebook friends. More than 800,000 gloves have already been exchanged, making it the most popular gift on Facebook to date.

Facebook’s live Michael Jackson memorial stream which coincided the King of Pop’s funeral service turned out the biggest live Facebook event in history. According to the latest but not final stats, 500,000 status updates were posted, 300,000 users logged in using FB Connect and CNN, and approximately 6,000 status updates were posted per minute…

Major uproar last weekend when upcoming MI6-boss, Sir John Sawers, got exposed on Facebook by his wife. Details such as their London address, the whereabouts of their three children, holiday beach photos, etc. were disclosed on her profile which was accessible to any of the 200 million Facebook users that were part or joined the London network.

With Oscar-nominated director David Fincher in the talks for a Facebook pic about the founders of the social network, I was inspired to dedicate this Status Saturday to one of my favorite movies directed by him and written by Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club.