The photo tagging phenomenon has officially jumped the shark on Facebook with the All my Friends! application which lets you instantly tag your friends in pre-made images. It’s not exactly a new concept but for some reason this iteration of the application has been extremely successful having attracted over 5 million users so far and growing daily.

The application could actually be a useful service but the way that ads are currently posted within the application makes us think that this app was simply developed to attract millions of users and generate a quick buck. I’ve written about these multi-user…

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We saw this nifty little toy today and thought you guys might get a kick out of it.  Its called the Hangmanduino, and as you can probably tell from the name, it plays hang man. This was an exercise in simplicity, you’ll notice there is only a single control for the entire game. We thought that the design was pretty cool, especially the single control. We weren’t surprised to see that this is actually the very same control we featured previously. You can download the code yourself from his website, if you want to make one of your own.…

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Surreal CMS is a remotely hosted content management system (CMS) that was designed with simplicity in mind.
Surreal CMS is a very simple GUI CMS designed for novices afraid to code. It runs on another server and can be used to edit websites hosted remotely.

The free license allows 3 websites while the $25/month designer license allows unlimited no. of websites.
You can edit any part of the webpage using Surreal CMS just by adding “class=editable” in the span, div or heading tags.
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Facebook has publicly stated their intent to launch a payments platform and have even begun testing it with multiple application developers but one area where they’ve yet to integrate is their own products. While the company has tested a system which enables users to send credits, nothing has been released since those initial tests. One area where we see a ton of potential is Facebook events, which has become one of Facebook’s most popular applications.

Facebook even reported that Facebook events is larger than evite, which was once the most dominant site for social event planning. Eventbrite has become a…

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In a direct challenge to Microsoft, Google announced late Tuesday that it is developing an operating system for PCs that is tied to its Chrome Web browser.
The software, called the Google Chrome Operating System, is initially intended for use in the tiny, low-cost portable computers known as netbooks, which have been selling quickly even as demand for other PCs has plummeted. Google said it believed the software would also be able to power full-fledged PCs.
The move is likely to sharpen the already intense competition between Google and Microsoft, whose Windows operating system controls the basic functions of…

This afternoon Facebook is hosting a privacy call to update a few press members about the company’s latest changes. With a lot of confusion about what exactly is taking place, the company wants to make some clarifications as the changes will have a significant impact on the user experience. We’ll begin updating this post as the call begins.

[1:01 PM EDT] – Waiting for the call to begin.
[1:08 PM EDT] – Still waiting (and btw, I’m blogging on a bus, not to be confused with a boat)
[1:10 PM EDT] – Facebook logo just came up in the presentation.…

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Because of the growing internet market it is imperative that all serious businesses who want to expand in their online avatar need to have a professionally designed website for their business. It is a fact that a simple web design which outlines your business effectively can improve the incoming traffic rate at your website. In a general survey maximum numbers of professional web designers are now inclined to have simple but creative web design because they feel web design is an utmost art which depends on some important pillars. Simple makes it easier for the visitors to grasp your site…

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John Battelle is one smart cookie. In a post this morning, John suggests that Twitter leverage Facebook Connect in order to prevent people from never coming back. By integrating with Facebook Connect, the company will be able to help people instantly connect and draw meaning from the site. Twitter could even take things a step further and let people import their Facebook status directly to Twitter to essentially create the ultimate status search engine.

Currently the only recommendations that Twitter provides is for celebrities and as one of my friends suggested to me during lunch the other day, the conversation…

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