ReidBurke

I headed over to Facebook to check my News Feed; however, due to site maintenance I’m unable to login. I wonder what kind of maintenance would require my account to be “frozen” like this for such a long time? Some messages in my Inbox appeared empty last night, perhaps something went wrong in that department. Anyone else have this problem?

Update: Fallout from a nasty security problem appears to be the cause, and I’m not alone.

The second day I was in California, my friend Dav Glass gave me a tour of the Yahoo! campus in Sunnyvale. The appearance and general vibe I received while I was there took some getting used to: everyone seemed excited to be there. They had good reason to be: they have their own beach volleyball court, live music, restaurant, game room, and I'm just scratching the surface here. Here's a video of a "virtual tour" of Yahoo! if you're interested: The ...

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I'm getting tons of these junk requests every day. I wish Facebook would provide a mechanism to "ignore future invitations" so I wouldn't have 5 new iLike invitations whenever I login. (Besides, I already use Last.fm.) Otherwise, my requests page is becoming just as bad as my MySpace. Other than annoyances such as this, Facebook's Platform is a great concept. I hope that Facebook further refines their Platform to accommodate for situations like this.

Joost has announced that they are expanding their beta program and are allowing me to give unlimited invites. If you didn't get a chance to grab invites last time, now's your chance! I'll send out invites as fast as I can. If you haven't heard, Joost is a new way to watch TV online. Check out their website for more about this cool service.

I've been a beta tester for Joost for a few weeks. It's a really cool piece of software and I enjoy it a lot already. Unfortunately for me, I seem to have a few problems with the streaming from time to time. (I guess that's why it's in beta.) The experience is pretty awesome aside from that. Anyway, I want to give my readers the chance to try it out too. I have 3 Joost invitations up for grabs. Tell me ...

Note This no longer works. I use their Profile 2.0 now anyway. Today I noticed that my MySpace profile looked awful in Internet Explorer. I recently changed some stuff in my profile but didn't touch my custom CSS. However, after looking through the code, I discovered the problem: MySpace is now scrubbing out "<!" from my profile. This is bad, because I make use of Internet Explorer's conditional comments to hide some CSS from the browser. Basically, I was using this: <![if !IE]> <style> .yourStylesHere ...

I was about to submit my University of Illinois application when these lovely screens appeared. I still can't access their server after 30 minutes of trying to log back in. Just a bit worried about my application, which is due by Wednesday... I hope these issues work themselves out soon!

About a month ago, I followed the excellent guide to style a MySpace profile over at Mike Industries. He detailed many details about the challenges he faced in his blog that I shared when doing my own (still awful) modifications when I first signed up for a MySpace. I never thought I would be able to have my profile look as appealing as his styled goodness, however, he was nice enough to include some sample CSS for all to enjoy. ...

I just read an interesting article called "Social Currency" by Douglas Rushkoff. This guy really hits the nail on the head regarding the purpose of content to most people, both offline and online. Although the article is a bit dated (written in January 2001), the concepts he illustrates are still very relevant today. He explains: We think of a medium as the thing that delivers content. But the delivered content is a medium in itself. Content is just a medium for interaction ...