Friendster has been slowly losing grip of their social network dominance to Facebook who, like a game of risk, has been steadily increasing its reach in countries around the globe. Bernard Leong recently posted about the growth of Facebook in Southeast Asia and while the most recent world map of social networks shows Facebook running into some trouble in Asia, some numbers are beginning to suggest that they are at least gaining some ground.

So what numbers are these based on? The latest numbers, as presented by Bernard Leong, are based on Alexa ratings which appear to be somewhat wrong…

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Sunday we saw robots playing pool and an augmented reality pool game. Today we’ll complete the pool trifecta: virtual pool using a real cue stick and ball in another vintage video from Hack a Day’s secret underground vault. The video is noteworthy for a couple of reasons:
First is the year it was made: 1990. There’s been much buzz lately over real-world gaming interfaces like the Nintendo Wii motion controller or Microsoft’s Project Natal. Here we’re seeing a much simpler but very effective physical interface nearly twenty years prior.
Second: the middle section of the video reveals the trick behind it all, and it turns out…

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This is Day 25 of the 30 Days to 3,000 Fans program. You can learn more about the program here.
There are a number of ways to build up your fan base as we’ve already discussed in the past twenty-four days but one of the best ways to get new fans is to let users instantly join your Facebook Page is to integrate it directly into your blog or website. We already discussed cross-promoting your website and your Facebook Page but with the Facebook Fan Box widget, you can instantly get visitors to your site to become fans without them…

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Reader [unangst] pointed out to us an article in the U.K.’s Daily Mail, where a teenager from Nepal had managed to create a 9v, 18W solar panel using human hair rather than the usual semiconductors (usually crystalline-silicon). The complex silicon in solar panels are what keep the prices out of reach of developing nations, and while there are a number of new technologies that are helping  bring down the cost, [Karki] managed to make his solar panel for only £23 (roughly $38). He also claims that when mass produced the price could drop substantially down to under $10 a…

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This is Day 5 of the 30 Days to 3,000 Fans program. You can learn more about the program here.
So far we’ve discussed a few of the basics behind promoting your Facebook page. Now we are going to go over a few tips and tricks that are going to help you reach the 3,000 fan target that we set at the beginning of this guide. Keep in mind that for some companies, 3,000 fans is excessive while for others 3,000 may not be a lot. You need to effectively assess your goals and figure out a good number that…

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Under a month after writing about Zynga surpassing the 60 million user mark, the company has now grown beyond 80 million monthly active users. A large portion of Zynga’s success is a result of their FarmVille application which is about to become the largest application on the platform at some point next week. While some companies have developed highly successful applications (LivingSocial was the largest application on the platform ever), no companies on Facebook have as large of a portfolio as Zynga does.

They have almost doubled the size of their closest competitor (Playfish) and are simply dominating the platform.…

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If you have a brand but haven’t yet mastered the most effective techniques to attracting new followers and fans, you are not alone. With Facebook updating their design and platform on a regular basis it has become challenging for brands to follow everything that’s changing let alone learn all of the techniques necessary to maximize their reach. We understand the challenges that you face which is why we are introducing the 30 Days to 3,000 Facebook Fans project.

Why Does Your Brand Want 3,000 Facebook Fans?
When Facebook launched their new design early this year, millions of users revolted against…

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Ishikawa Komuro Laboratories are doing some amazing stuff with robots right now. The video above starts out looking like a clumsy and somewhat failed attempt at dribbling a ping pong ball. Once it goes into slow motion however, we see the true action. This robot is dribbling that ball amazingly. Utilizing 1000 FPS cameras, it readjusts and hits the ball on every bounce. As the ball drifts out of the reach of the bot, suddenly we are struck with the lifelike motion.  Personification can be a fleeting thing, appearing so strongly as the little bot tries in vain to…

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