Brian Kerr

Back from a presentation for SEM Group at SPARK; here’s the linkdump.

People

• Facebook Sees Flood Of New Traffic From Teenagers And Adults
• Jon Udell | Facebookizing the Web, Webifying Facebook
• LinkedIn; bkerr @ LinkedIn
• The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin, by WS Burroughs
• I HAS A STIK

News

• The Facebook Blog | Facebook Gets a Facelift

Groups

• Groups: Primo Coffee, Coffee Primo, █ ██ ████ ████████

Events

• Event: Growing Hope Beer Tasting

Applications

• Facebook Developers
• Applications: 4cast Weather, Friend Wheel, Scrabulous, Vampire
• blog.pmarca.com | Analyzing the Facebook Platform, three weeks in
• FaceReviews
• J-Squared Media
• Inside Facebook
• Facebook Application Smashing

Advertising

• Facebook | Advertise
• Boring ad networks: fbExchange, Lookery, VideoEgg | EAP for Applications, RockYou
• Master of 500 Hats | Facebook Advertising Sucks? Nope, CPM Sucks. (and Widgets = Advertising 2.0)

Income

• Marketplace
• Applications: Mosoma, Books

Taking action

• Application: Causes, Causes | Amnesty International USA
• Project Agape
• Irrepressible.info
• Application: Razoo Speed Granting

Q&A

• Funding: AppFactory, Altura Ventures, SocialMedia

(tags: facebook interaction media networks psyops remediation web)

Oh yeah:

The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).

Important to remember in this Facebook Moment. del.icio.us/tag/freedom0.

(tags: facebook metacrap networks politics)

Here are three quick rambly sketches of Facebook applications I want — and yes, I’m working on Facebook stuff, but these are applications I want to use, not make.

(1) A flyer tool for group / event promotion. Ideal workflow: point it to a group, get a full-page lo-fi flyer suitable for printing and posting at the cafe or bulletin board. This flyer wouldn’t need to contain much more than a giant Facebook F, the group’s name and picture, some community_indicators — such as number of members, unattributed snippets from wall postings or discussion boards, etc. — and a cheesy “you’re invited!” message. Lots of interesting groups for cafes, venues, and locations, and a flyer is a cheap way to link Facebook to meatspace.

(2) A pageoftext.com style micro wiki application. Individuals and groups already have a strong set of communication tools: posting walls, discussion boards, messaging, and so forth. But for certain kinds of conversations, a wiki scratchpad would be awesome. The generic use case is a way to dodge the Facebook group officer control tower stuff: only officers can make certain kinds of changes to the group, but it’s a hassle — and a risk(?) — to make everybody an officer.

(3) Hunt the Wumpus. With a tileset like this, and anybody who shows up on your profile gets to take a turn (so that the Wumpus never goes unfed).

(tags: collective facebook interaction media networks process web)