If Simon was a color, he'd be green. When Amanda reincarnates, she'll be a dog. If Max was a Friends character, he'd be Ross. If this sounds familiar, chances are that your Facebook home page is filled with random quiz results from your friends. While these apps may entertain some people, for most of us it is one of the major reasons to leave the quiz-flooded Facebook.
Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about.
Do you remember when Twitter was a word that only the tech-savvy crowd have heard of? It was back in March of 2007 that I finally started paying attention to what Twitter was, only because there was so much buzz about it on the blogs I was reading. Between then and now, Twitter has experienced all kinds of growing pains, including outages from traffic overload.
Facebook users are once again showing that they aren't too big on change. With Facebook getting ready to "force" all users to use the new design, there's been some people speaking-up about their dislike for the new design.
Recently Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, updated his status on the social network site to "100 Million people on Facebook!".
Back in May we wrote about a website called Scrabulous where you could go to play the classic game of Scrabble. We mentioend at the time that there was also a version of it available on Facebook as a Facebook App, but we weren't sure how long they were going to be around. The reason we said that was because Hasbro and Mattel had asked Facebook to remove it.
We are now starting to get more information about Facebook Connect which shows Facebook's ability to be innovative and grow. Facebook Connect allows other sites to integrate Facebook's identity system into their site to simplify things. Several sites have already partnered with Facebook and one of them is Digg.
When Facebook moved away from their original interface (back when it was "The Facebook") people weren't too happy. Since then it's gotten a few tweaks here and there, and they've added features and of course applications, but the look has generally stayed the same.
The folks over at Facebook sure do know how to do things right (most of the time). One of the best things they ever did in terms of helping their growth was to launch Facebook Apps - it's been a HUGE success for them.
Today is April 22nd which means it's Earth Day in many countries around the World. It all started in 1970 when the first Earth Day was celebrated to coincide with the environmental movement. Around the web you'll find a handful of different sites celebrating the day by changing their logo. Social Web Browser Flock even launched a new "Eco-edition" of their browser just in time for the day.
