Paul Maunders | Web log

Tonight it was announced that Facebook chat now supports XMPP (also known as Jabber). This means that it will work with a host of chat clients, including my personal favourite iChat.
To get it working with iChat you simply follow these steps:

Navigate to iChat > Preferences > Accounts
Click the plus icon in the bottom left hand [...]

In the past 24 hours, 2 of my facebook friends have posted a spam comment on my wall:
“Found some super potent legal bud at http://www.b_bzop.co_ !!”
So it would appear that either their accounts have been hacked, or they have some spy ware on their machine that is hijacking their sessions and posting comments while they [...]

Earlier this week Techcrunch revealed that Google were about to launch a new social network project called OpenSocial. Rather than push out yet another social platform, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) have decided to stick to their strengths and core mission, that is; to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. [...]

OK so this is old news now, but it just dawned on me how much Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) paid for a bit of the Facebook pie. First, let’s put things into perspective:

Investor
Site
Unique visitors(GigaOM Sep 2007)
Traffic GrowthOn previous month
PurchasePrice

News Corp
MySpace
68,449,000
+0.1%
$580 million

Google
YouTube
47,486,000
+5.8%
$1.65 billion

Microsoft
Facebook
30,601,000
-9.3%
$15 billion ($240 million for 1.6%)

These figures are from Comscore, and I believe they cover [...]