Posted by Wayne Garcia on Aug. 12, 2009, at 5:58 am
Last night some Facebook users were invited to be part of a beta test for Facebook Lite (the link now bounces you not to Lite but to regular Facebook), but they soon found that the invitation was premature: Facebook pulled the trigger on too many beta testers, only to shut down the link.
So, what is Facebook Lite?
Depends on who you ask. Tech Crunch reports that it looks much like Twitter or FriendFeed:
Okay, while it seems that most of the users who are getting this message now are not seeing much different, earlier this week, it looks like a very select few may have gotten a sneak peak at Facebook Lite. According to their tweets on it, it appears to be a more Twitter-like. One user notes that it, “looks like a simplified version of twitter with comments enabled. On 2nd thought, it looks like simplified FriendFeed.”
That is of course very interesting since Facebook just bought FriendFeed for around $50 million yesterday.
Tech Crunch features this screen capture of Facebook Lite.
Posted by Wayne Garcia on Jul. 23, 2009, at 8:01 am
Stuart Mellish Thinks the Republicans should get out of the way and let Obama fix this Country. You had your 8 years and you screwed it up. STEP ASIDE!
Posted by Wayne Garcia on Jun. 24, 2009, at 10:06 am
The News Media Guildi is protesting (and rightly) on behalf of its members at the AP because of new social media policies at the news organization that will now require reporters and editors to remove comments and other info on their Facebook pages that don’t meet AP standards.
“It is making some people cringe,” said Kevin Keane, News Media Guild administrator. “It is not appropriate for a company that heralds free speech.”
Keane also objected to another portion of the new rules that states: “Posting material about the AP’s internal operations is prohibited on employees’ personal pages.”
“You can’t tell people not to talk about anything internal to AP,” Keane said. “It is too broad. People have the right.”
Equally is its backwards policy on reporters using Twitter to communicate news. Here is both the Facebook and Twitter provisions from AP’s Q&A-format policy:
Posted by Wayne Garcia on Feb. 25, 2009, at 7:42 am
In trying a new comment interface, one that has a tie-in to Facebook, something went awry in the machine and our comments aren’t posting the way you are used to seeing them. Some are not showing up at all. Please bear with my tech guys while they troubleshoot the problem and get us back on our commenting feet. Thanks.
UPDATE: We’ve gone back to our old comment box for now, and it should be working fine, so please let me know if it isn’t working for your by emailing me at wayne.garcia@creativeloafing.com.
Posted by Wayne Garcia on Jan. 26, 2009, at 3:13 pm
I’m pretty sure that this will not result in any indictments or Florida Commission on Ethics probes, so it seems safe to have a little fun at a new Facebook app, Lawmaker Gift Application.
The brainchild of Tallahassee-based public affairs guy John Fleming, the app lets you buy lunch or send a small gift to lawmakers. No tricky lobbyist disclosure forms to fill out; just gift away.
Of course, you have to go out and find yourself some lawmakers, since they aren’t on the app page and have to be in your Friends List. Two who are on FB: Charlie Justice and Dave Aronberg.
My one suggestion? How about some realllllly big gifts, wildly inappropriate Abramoff-style stuff. Golf outings. Expensive Scotch. Cuban cigars. A US Senatorship from Illinois …
We end the week with the gift that keeps on giving: The George W. Bush victory tour. In this clip from a few days ago, Bush tries to get in line with some soldiers and gets awkwardly shut out. Have a good weekend, everyone.
Barack Obama aired his half-hour “Obama Infomercial” as the candidate called it on last night’s Daily Show. (Time called it a “mini-convention six days before the election.”) The production leaned heavily on tug-at-the-heartstrings profiles of “real Americans” and some very specific policy proposals. In case you missed it:
