A day in the life of the internet

In the spirit of Gary Hayes's Social Media Counter, here's another mind-bending snapshot of internet activity:


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Social Media Counter

Worksite Design: Facebook (temporary) HQ

from Reuters:

...... The old HP research facility was refurbished for comfort, not for luxury. Facebook tore out a sea of cubicles to reveal wide open spaces for desks and oversized terminals. Nearly everyone sits there, including all company executives.

The result is something like a dream college dorm, with good food available throughout the day in a cafeteria. .......

Privacy is afforded in meeting rooms, some with names that are mashups of video games and condiments, like Donkey Kong Chutney and Guitartar Hero.......

Facebook has 700 employees in the building and another 200 in other cities. It will stay in its new home for a few years, until Stanford — which owns the land — wants it back.

Photo: David Lawsky

UO Libraries Search facebook app now available!

Many thanks to Joshua Kielas, UO Libraries Web Technical Coordinator, for the development effort on this one:

We now have a facebook application that searches the library catalog and selected databases (aka "OneSearch Quicksets"). You can add it to a Facebook profile by visiting this url after you are logged in:
http://apps.facebook.com/uolibcat/

Please be aware that access to licensed resources is limited to current UO students, faculty, and staff. For more information, see
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/systems/proxy/index.html

A siteless website

Here's the "in for a penny, in for a pound" approach to leveraging social networking tools. Modernista (advertising agency) manages its entire web presence with a blend of free user-driven sites -- Wikipedia, flickr, youtube, facebook, Google News, del.icio.us, etc..

Click the link within this post (http://modernista.com/7/index.php) and see what happens. Then try pasting the link into a new browser window.

Thanks to Kate at Innosight for passing this one along!

Facebook group shoots down new logo at Middlebury

At Middlebury College, 700 students joined a Facebook group to protest a new graphic identity. At Middlebury, that's approx. 1/3 of the entire student body.

from middleburycampus.com student weekly

Facebook petition sinks revamped logo by Derek Schlickeisen

Issue date: 9/12/07 Section: Focus

...snip... [VP for Communications] Michael McKenna said he was surprised by the swift response to the College's announcement - and by the power of Facebook.

"I was caught off guard by the strong reaction," he said. "Facebook was invented by some guys who lived down the hall from my son in college, and as a result I have always viewed it as student turf and not used it. But when I learned of the anti-logo group I did finally register."

For now, both designers and protestors seem happy with the College's decision the "Middlebury Leaf" be kept as a symbol for the $500 million campaign while a revised Middlebury seal - also designed by Chermayeff & Geismar - takes its place in other College correspondence.