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OK, so why the zen bones thing?

About 20 years ago I stumbled upon a book called "Zen Flesh, Zen Bones". Being vegetarian - the "flesh" bit didn't grab me, but the short pithy Zen stories inside it, did.

Ever since then my web nick has been zenbones, my Hotmail, my Gmail address, you name it. It's kinda stuck.

Is the blog about Zen? Nope.

Tags: fun Facebook tech

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January 20

“Facebook serves 260 billion page views per month. That’s more than six million page views per minute, or a staggering 37.4 trillion page views in a year.”

via Facebook boasts 11 times more page views than MySpace, 59 times more than Twitter | Royal Pingdom

Tags: Facebook tech web stats charts

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January 7

Facebook’s iPhone app gets a major update

Today Facebook gave its iPhone app a major boost with contact syncing to your phone’s address book. It pulls down the Facebook profile pic and adds it to your contact. So now when your phone rings their mugshot gets displayed. I guess this leaves the (very buggy) FriendSync app with no reason to exist.

The other cool (or maybe irritating) new feature is Push Notifications. So now your phone will display a notification message every time a Facebook friend comments, likes, tags you or any other event. It could be useful for being alerted to those inappropriate comments some friends make, or better still, being alerted to bad photo tag!

Tags: Facebook iPhone apps tech

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December 29

Updating Facebook Relationship Status at the Altar

Also sending a tweet: http://twitter.com/TheSoftwareJedi/status/5925126890

via YouTube At My Wedding Twitterring and Facebooking at the Altar

Tags: Facebook Twitter tech fun wedding

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December 4

Classic!

Tags: fun Obama Facebook

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November 18

Oxford Word of the Year 2009: Unfriend

unfriend – verb – To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook.

As in, “I decided to unfriend my roommate on Facebook after we had a fight.”

So, there you have it. It’s officially a word now. Unfriend. I feel silly every time I say it. Then again, about 10 years ago I felt silly when I said blog, and in 2006 when I said Twitter. Now I’m getting used to saying tweets.

Oxford Word of the Year 2009: Unfriend

Then again, maybe it’s just a scam?

Tags: Facebook dictionary unfriend

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November 10

Facebook’s fancy new Headquarters

Click through for the full photo set.

Tags: Facebook tech architecture

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November 6

Cafe World game hits 10 million users in just a week

Amazingly they’re up to 15 million already - the fastest growing game ever. (Confession, I haven’t yet played it, and probably wont’.) But just because I don’t play games on Facebook, doesn’t mean half the FB universe doesn’t!

Seems like these guys look set to make $200m in revenue this year. The game designer, Zynga, employ over 500 people. Yes folks, games are big business.

Zynga’s Cafe World game hits 10 million users in just a week | VentureBeat

Tags: Facebook games tech articles

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October 24

Facebook.app updates coming soon. Push Notifications to annoy us all

Tags: Facebook iPhone

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October 17

Urgency of Work vs Interestingness of Facebook

Tags: charts fun tech Facebook

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October 13

Tell me why I don’t like Mondays…

Facebook makes it official: We hate Mondays

Tags: Facebook tech Monday moods

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October 4

Speechless, really.

Tags: facebook fun

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September 30

Facebook Lite… dead ‘n gone?

Was wondering today whether anyone still uses the much-trumpeted Facebook Lite?

The day it was rumoured to be launching (12 Aug) I run a search on Google at 9:15am and there were only 2,500 search results for Facebook Lite. As the day continued, and as the frenzy mounted, Google began discovering and indexing more and more mentions. By 6pm that same day there were 73,000 mentions.

Today there are 43.3 million mentions. In anyone’s books, that’s a lot.

Everyone I have spoken to about Facebook Lite, tried it once, and has never been back. I think it was a little too late and ill-conceived from the start. The only use I can see for it would be like the training wheels on kids bikes - make all new FB sign-ups use it for a limited time to “get the hang” of FB before graduating to the real deal.

After all, when last did you consume a “lite” version of a product that tasted better?

Tags: Facebook Facebook Lite Google tech articles

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September 27

“ In an era of mobile devices, instant connectivity, and automated mailing lists and notifications, it is all too easy for people to contact us. As a consequence, we live our lives just trying to keep our heads above water. Our ability to prioritize and control our focus is crippled by an unyielding flow of incoming communication: email, texts, tweets, facebook messages, phone calls, and so on (and on).

Scott Belsky - via

Beware of Reactionary Workflow :: Tips :: The 99 Percent

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September 16

Oversharers

This site is pretty funny. We all have Facebook or Twitter friends who just share too much. Really folks, I’m just not that into your inappropriate status messages. I think next time, I’ll just send back a link to this site…. not wait, maybe I will just send their message to www.oversharers.com

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