Nothing makes an awkward social situation like a cheap pair of cuff links that say — f me. Brilliant. [Source: TechCrunch]

A website that teaches Australian Moms etiquette of social networking (on Facebook). Niche marketing for a services that has gone mainstream.

Stereo 8 allows users to upload any song. Others can listen, rate and share via facebook. The site removes all songs, copyrighted or not, when the song is played or up to 48 hours. There is no login for listeners, all records of uploads are deleted together with each song. To preemptively answer copyright complaints [...]

Provocative, and I wish they cite where their got their data inside the video. It cites socialnomics at the end, which means that I may have to buy the book to find out the sources of their data.

Social networking is a new layer of human communications, not a replacement of human contact. What good is social networking if it let us reduce a conversation to a teeny thumbs-up icon?