This is what thousands of attendees will be receiving daily over the 6-day World Youth Day event held in Australia. I’m not Catholic but think it’d be truly epic to receive a text message from God’s spokesperson.

“We wanted to make WYD08 a unique experience by using new ways to connect with today’s tech-savvy youth,” Bishop Anthony Fisher said in a statement on Wednesday.

Via Reuters

These pants actually seem useful. Originally posted on Vous Pensez, commenters have a field day with the concept of a keyboard across the crotch region. You’ve been warned.

Facebook at Work - Essential for Job Applicants

A study in Australia has found that almost half would refuse a job if they were not allowed access to Facebook at work.
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New Legal Woes for Facebook Founder

A former friend of Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, is legally challenging the right to the name Facebook.
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More Claims of Facebook Fatigue from Time

How quickly the mainstream media turns!
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Blog from Facebook

Six Apart, the makers of blog platforms TypePad and Live Journal, have created BlogIt. The program, which is used within Facebook, supports not only Six Apart’s platforms, but also many others, including Blogger, LiveJournal, Pownce, Tumblr, Twitter, Vox, WordPress.com and WordPress.org.
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Blockbuster Faces Legal Action over Facebook Beacon

Blockbuster Video was one of the first advertisers to participate in the controversial Facebook Beacon program, launched last year. This is not great news for Facebook, the last thing they need is more reasons for advertisers to get spooked about this idea.
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New Mini Feed Offers Better Integration with Other Sites

You can now import links into your Mini Feed from other popular sites, creating more of a "lifestream". This is probably long overdue. You can import from Flickr, Picassa, Yelp, Digg, and del.icio.us.

Go to your Profile page in Facebook and click on the Import link:

Click on the logo to enter your user information from those sites:

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Facebook Launches Lexicon

Facebook has launched a new service similar in concept to Google Trends, called Lexicon. This allows you to see the popularity of keywords across Wall Posts. You can separate keywords with a comma to get a comparison chart, for example, clinton vs obama.

Hours of fun.
Facebook Lexicon

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This is possibly the best bit of guerilla advertising I’ve ever seen coming out of Infinite Loop, but sadly something tells me it’s not. There’s only onething to do.

Update: The more I think about it this is Microsoft trying to laugh at themselves (and generate some Vista SP1 chatter on the way), but I’m not sure that excuses it’s existence. I feel dirty.

http://www.campaignbrief.com/2008/04/i-want-to-marry-a-producer.html

..he missed developers but I’m sure we could contribute a section on marriage to developers…be kind now..

This one’s for design nerds only: The Rather Difficult Font Game

I scored 33/34 – Dane, I expect a perfect score.

I think this is the perfect example of how to get a book deal. The author of the blog www.stuffwhitepeoplelike.com has just received a book deal from random house. Basically the blog has been a huge hit with white people who love the irony of reading and laughing about their every day lives with 23,076,753 hits in 3 months. Random House saw the hype it was getting and said “want some cheddar?” and they said “Hell yeah!”

I think it’s a great example of how the web is an excellent forum to get noticed and get your work out to the people with little cost or effort. Obviously this kind of stuff is pretty rare, but you can guarantee that this blog writer would never have got noticed otherwise. White people like blogging!

The HDDDBB, if you will.

Nexcopy’s USB Duplicator, the USB200PC, will most definitely be on my Christmas list this year. I can’t count the amount of times I’ve stayed up late copying movies, TV shows and music to friends USB drives till the wee hours of the morn. Now I don’t have to! Besides being completely useful, it’s design is something out of the Jetsons. Very retro-futuristic.

And I supposed its good for large companies who distribute portable data to customer and employees as well.

via Oh Gizmo

Word.

Nivin’s blog post about the wonders of Twitter didn’t convince me. I detest reporting to the world on my every waking moment and the thought that others are reading these ‘Twitters’, just creeps me out.

I’m an analog sorta gal. Gimme a pen and paper any day and I’ll eventually get around to filling my friends in with what I did last October. Maybe.

Dawdlr publishes postcard submissions kind of like PostSecret does, but on a much less titillating scale. It self-described as:

dawdlr is a global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: what are you doing, you know, more generally?