Asi Sharabi wrote an an excellent post analyzing the top Facebook applications trends. All of his info is based on the Facebook analytics site Adonomics (previously Appaholic), which provides all sorts of great statistics regarding all Facebook applications. Here are some stats for example which may blow your mind: There are 609,690,058 installs across 9,781 apps on Facebook with over 168,000 developers currently evaluating the platform. These applications were used 40,418,045 times in the last 24 hours [...]

Here is a a new Public Service Announcement regarding the Medical Side Effects of Social Networking Addiction. Created by: Jeffrey Sass  Starring: Jeff Pulver, Chris Brogan, Seth Harwood, Ed Roberts, Laura “Pistachio” Fitton         Technorati tags: social networking, addiction, jeffrey sass, jeff pulver, chris brogan, seth harwood, ed roberts, laura fitton

I have covered MeeMix a few times on my blog already as I am a big fan of this site. MeeMix is a personalized internet radio community which aims at identifying individual taste and taste prediction in music using its own behavioral-based algorithm and additional methodologies.  MeeMix takes into account your behavior on the site (for example, which songs you added to your favorites) and uses it to predict what music you might like to listen to [...]

Allen Stern wrote a very interesting post recently about how people such as Robert Scoble use Facebook and Twitter as more of a publicity network than a social network to brand themselves and expose their videos, posts. Currently Scoble has 6,892 followers on Twitter and 4,892 friends on Facebook. He has been complaining about the fact that Facebook limits him to only 5,000 friends. When looking at Mashable‘s account on Twitter, we also see Pete Cashmore twittering only [...]

I have written in the past about SuTree.com, a site which aggregates instructional “how to” videos. I really liked the concept of SuTree from the time it launched six months ago, as it offered users a one-stop-shop to find instructional videos on any topic of their choosing. SuTree aggregates videos from 5min, VideoJug, MetaCafe, and more. The only criticism I initially had regarding the site was its lack of community features. Users had no profile pages and could not connect with one another. [...]

Congrats to my friends over at Yedda who have just announced their acquisition by AOL. I had the pleasure of working with this amazing team in its very early stages back in 2006 and I must tell you that it is seldom you meet such a strong team of players. For anyone who doesn’t know, Yedda is a question & answer service which allows users to specify their tags of interest and only receive content based on this [...]

Jonathan Keebler has created an amazing bookmarklet that allows you to quickly upload your Flickr photo into your Facebook photo album.  Follow these instructions:  1) Log in to the Flickr2Facebook application 2) Save the bookmarklet to your web-browser’s bookmarks. You only have to do this once! 3) Surf to the Flickr page with the image on it you would like to upload. 4) Click the bookmarklet in your web-browser’s bookmarks. 5) Click on the Flickr2Facebook logo that appears over [...]

Google introduces its OpenSocial platform:       Technorati tags: opensocial, google, social network, web 2.0, web applications, api

MySpace, Six Apart, Friendster, Hi5, Bebo, Hyves, Imeem, LinkedIn, Ning, Oracle, Orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce,  Tianji, Viadeo, and Xing have already confirmed that they are joining Google’s OpenSocial initiative. Question now remains whether Facebook will be forced to join OpenSocial as well. Facebook spokesperson Brandee Barker said yesterday that “Despite reports, Facebook has still not been briefed on OpenSocial”. When asked whether Facebook would be interested in joining forces with Google, Mrs. Barker’s reply was: ““When we have had a [...]