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Skype for Facebook is now available whether you are on Windows or Mac and it lets you make free Skype voice and video calls to your Facebook friends.
Skype for Facebook is now available whether you are on Windows or Mac and it lets you make free Skype voice and video calls to your Facebook friends.
When Facebook becomes a book from Siavosh Zabeti on Vimeo.
When Bouygues Telecom wanted to launch their facebook platform, they contacted Siavosh Zabeti to create something that would be unique. So he created an app that would transfer your online Facebook entries into an actual book. A kind of “retro” Facebook.
What do you think? Does this make much sense? Perhaps to the older generation. But the new generation is all about online sites and eBooks. As much as I love a good biographical, mystery or picture book, I also long to put it all behind me and have it all in one iPad-like device.
If Facebook ever falls by the wayside one day, it will probably be because of the 25 things hilariously summarized in the following video:
From JulianSmith.tv
From CollegeHumor.com
Here’s another pretty creative video song using Facebook profile pictures.
A LIFE ON FACEBOOK from maxluere on Vimeo.
The story of a man told through the facebook’s interface.
It’s a fascinating thought, that in the future, all we need to know about someone will be right there in the pages of Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, FourSquare, Flickr and Google. Like Alex Droner in the video above, we’ll know his thoughts, what he searches for, where he eats, what he likes, who his friends are, how his interests evolve through the years, who he loves, hates, what presses his buttons, gets him upset, touches his heart, where he travels, the people he meets, the schools he attends, his parents, relatives, likes, dislikes, idiosyncracies,… who he is. Or, was. And we’ll be able to do that for every single one of you who is tweeting, writing on your virtual walls, posting pictures,…
Someone will write a software that will collect from the Internet every scrap of information about you and paint a portrait of you that even you might be surprised at seeing. Maybe even create an avatar of you in virtual space imbued with your likes, dislikes, and emotions. Careful now, for we are stepping into the world of Caprica and the cylons.
From TheRockMelt
The name Marc Andreessen may or may not ring a bell with you, but those who lived to see the Internet take root, get dismissed as a fad, then take hold knows that without Marc Andreessen, there is a good chance the Internet would have remained the purview of academics.
While the Internet was still a character based boring venue for academics to publish and exchange science papers, Marc Andreessen wrote the Netscape Navigator browser to make the Internet more accessible and user-friendly (“the web is for everyone”). The rest is history.
Well, a company that Marc Andreessen’s venture capital firm supports wants to revolutionize the way we access and view information on the Internet once again. RockMelt is the handiwork of Tim Howes and Eric Vishria, who formerly worked with Andreessen. Andreessen sits on RockMelt’s board of directors.
RockMelt brings together Facebook, Twitter, Google, and a handful of your favorite websites. So, you need a Facebook account to start with. This puts it in direct competition with Facebook which wants to be RockMelt. Which means that RockMelt depends on Facebook to succeed, on Twitter to succeed, on… etc.
From the video, it just looks like a software on top of Facebook or your browser (in fact, based on open-source Chromium which is the base source code for Google Chrome) with a column to the right of your favorite social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter, etc. and a column to the left of all the friends you absolutely want to keep tab on. So instead of switching from FB to Twitter to whatever, you get a popup window that does the same thing. Whoopee. And clicking on one of your friend gets a popup window of what she or he posted on FB or twitter. Re-Whoopee. Is this what reinventing the browser means?
In fact, the concept is sound, but should be targeted to the mobile devices. No one sits in front of their desktop PC or laptop to keep tab of friends anymore. They do that on their mobile devices. Search for an apartment? On the mobile with GPS location marked on a map. Recommendation of a place to eat in a foreign city? On the mobile with recommendations from friends who have visited the place before. When a friend posts something, it alerts me on my mobile and I can choose to read it now or later, when I can then decide whether to text back or call.
The new [mobile] browser needs to be more push than pull, this being the right time for it. More suggesting to me what to buy, where to eat, how to get there faster than me searching for it and getting 1000s hits back. More restrictions to who see my posts, who gets to text me, whose advice I really trust. Which makes it really difficult for a startup to monetize its success if it is based on selling ads and services to me.
source PhysOrg
Leica Camera, Inc. is pleased to announce the launch of the new Lecia S-System Page on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/S.System). The S-System page provides an opportunity for Leica professional photographers, fans and enthusiasts to actively engage with Leica Camera and with one another.
In addition to offering fans the opportunity to register for S-System demos, the page specifically highlights news, tips and features of the S-System, a completely new digital camera concept that meets supreme professional photography requirements. The S-System’s flexibility, durability and easy operation combined with industry-leading resolution and image quality set new standards for medium-format photography.
Since the launch of Leica’s Facebook fan page, blog and Twitter newsfeed, Leica has attracted a strong social networking community approaching 75,000 photography fans. Please join us if you haven’t already!
S-System Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/S.System
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Teri Hatcher
Teri Hatcher of Desperate Housewives fame (and previously of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman) has posted nine photos of herself taken right after stepping out of the shower to prove that she is Botox-free. The photos, taken at arms length, show her wrapped in a bath towel with no make-up on. Why did she do it?
Thought about all those damn critics of my face. Love it or hate it, my face that is, no surgery, no implants, no matter what “they” say. Decided I’d shoot myself in to reveal some truths about “beauty” and hope it makes you all easier on yourself.
On another photo, she adds:
I am alone in my bathroom naked in a towel on behalf of women everywhere trying to make a point.
But what is interesting is the advice she gives on posing to look your best:
45 year old me. Just me wanting to teach that all those glam versus trash pictures of celebs are about LIGHTING. It’s not makeup it’s not suregery or botox its LIGHT. Flat front light in you face especially sun setting 4pm light blows out all wrinkles and imperfections. Over head light, sun anything casts shadows under your eye from your brow making you look tired. Shoot all family reunion photos that way over the camera man who should be holding the camera a little higher than your eye line.
You look great, Teri, and we love ya! But those wonderful photos of you on magazine covers and on the set, Botox or none, make-up or none, are the results of heavy post processing. No amount of flat front light can remove wrinkles and make a woman’s face silky smooth. [Is that what your photographer told you, eh?] And, yes, “Women YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL.”
View all 9 photos of teri hatcher at: Facebook.
