Ampers & Dot

Ok- the yesterday’s blizzard backed things up at work, which meant no breakfast or lunch time for me to write today… so briefly (during my afternoon “Mt. Dew” break), I thought I’d post some fun links to help you waste away Friday afternoon.
Things that Happened this Week

Friendster launched their own application platform for developers to create facebook-like widget-apps… all14 active Friendster members were overjoyed, no one else really noticed.
Meanwhile Facebook removed “is” from the status section of profile pages and 68,000,000 people wrote blogged about it.

The funniest spoof on Facebook’s advertising intrusiveness popped up: Facebook Business Solutions. Make sure to click through the pages- it’s hilarious and I should have dedicated an entire post to this site.

The top 10 Most Viewed Viral Videos of 2007 were announced. It should be known that #6 is my personal 2007 favorite by a long shot.

Also - Mashable has a great roundup of Social Media stories of the week. Man, this is a weird world…

In non-social media news

I got my xbox back from Microsoft’s hospital in TX; this was about twice as fast as the last time my xbox 360 died. Glad to see that two years and $1.15B has cut the repair time down to only a few weeks!

The new Microsoft backed, Mobile Browsing Experience, “Zumobi” finally entered its beta testing… I’ll have more on this next week.

The freakishly nerdy term “w00t” was named Word of the Year by Merriam-Webster. All 14 active Friendster members had a good “lol” over that one.

And lastly, Jason Chen of Gizmodo showed yet another example of his undying Apple fanboyishness, in his article on “What’s Wrong with Windows Mobile” - to be fair- it’s a great article. It’s pretty obviously written by an iPhone lover and not a WinMo enthusiast, but it’s well written, covers some key points and elaborates on arguments I’ve made before… I think it’s safe to say you’ll be reading more about this article at another time soon.
Ok- enjoy the weekend- I should have a fun post for everyone (that is, everyone who likes Windows Mobile posts (that means you, Drew)) soon. Get excited now, it’ll save you time this weekend.