Facebook Freaks

This application creates a short, easy to remember personal web address to take people directly to your facebook profile, page or group, so you can share the link with other people, post it on forums, show it on your myspace page or print it on your business cards.

Meet the Pied Piper of the online world, Mari Smith, a veritable engine of personal branding and a relationship marketing whiz.

In my case, no. My Facebook friends are pretty much only my real life friends and closest coworkers. When it comes to some other services, such as Digg (Digg reviews), I've let pretty much anyone be my friend...but...Facebook is too valuable for me.

When compared to other social media sites, Facebook has a much larger potential reach for "memes" (ideas that people can't help sharing with their friends) but is quite restrictive on the ways in which these memes can spread. To identify the characteristics necessary for a meme to thrive on Facebook, we must look at what the restrictions demand from them.

Twitter users of TweetDeck, check this out. Facebook Connect and Seesmic Desktop is a dream application for the frequent status updater, group lover, and social media meme tracker. Has multiple columns that can be rearranged via drag and drop, customizable groups, Twitpic functions, etc.

Tomorrow (April 27), Facebook knocks down its dams to let streams of data flow more freely. Third parties will now have access to data previously unavailable... the photos and videos that users post! Is this okay?