An example of the kind of personal profile page bigsight can make by exporting data from Facebook.

Quoted: bigsight.org profile for Mike Koss - Hunts Point, Washington - Launch Director

Really excellent guest-post on TechCrunch detailing the data structures on FaceBook, and what the TOS allows applications to export from the FB platform (more than you think).

Quoted: The following guest post was written by Dan Birdwhistell, founder of people directory Bigsight (reviewed here) and creator of Hacking Facebook, a website ...

The first 1,000 Facebook gift images (actually only 793 so far, but this page will load all 1,000 when they come online).

Another cute Facebook gift.

Gary clued me in to this service - which is kind of the flip side of the Friend Feed equation - "How do I DISTRIBUTE all my feeds out to different information sinks".

I found through personal experience that just hooking up feeds and blasting everything everywhere does NOT work - it's too noisy to send everything I'm doing to Facebook status updates or Twitter, for example.

Ping.FM uses some "triggers" to direct your posts to the desired locations:

@s message - Posts a status update
@b title^body - Posts a blog
@m message - Posts a micro-blog

Quoted: Ping.fm is a simple service that allows you to post to multiple social networks with a single message.

When iGoogle launches their new canvas and Open Social features, Google's personalized home page is going to bear a strong resemblance to the Facebook home page.

With 10's of millions of users using iGoogle, this could be back-door competition for Favebook and other social networks, by just integrated the news feed functionality into each user's home page.

Friend Connect-like API for Facebook.

Quoted: Facebook will announce later today Facebook Connect, which has similar functionality to MySpace Data Availability, announced just yesterday. The actual product won't be ...

Just noticing that Yelp reviews produce Beacon stories. I think it would be good if Faves could also create Beacon stories too when our users Fave something.

Quoted: Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.

Mark has some really interesting things to say about efficiency of communication - and that Facebook's goal is really about helping solve these kinds of problems.

Sarah Lacy (moderator) got heckled quite a bit for being a "bitchy" reporter.