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The Difference Between Moms and Dads

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Everyone except Esbee will understand this: on Hallmark days people on Facebook will post things in their "status" that someone else has written for the occasion and then arm-twisted everyone else to post in their "status" too.  For Mother's Day we have this one:

Before you were conceived, I wanted you. Before you were born, I loved you. When you were born, I saw your face and knew I was in love. Before you were an hour old, I knew I would die for you. To this day, I will. With Mother's Day approaching, repost this if you have children you love more than life.

Here's what I predict will be written for Father's Day:

Before you were conceived, I had freedom. Before you were born, I could do whatever I wanted. When you were born, I saw you and asked if you were really done and wondered if maybe we should put you back in there for a week or two. Before you were an hour old, I knew that life as I knew it was over.  To this day, I've been proven right. With Father's Day approaching, repost this if you have children who've sucked the marrow out of your being, but what the hell, you have to admit you love them more than life.

Why Twitter’s Influence is Probably Greater Than Most People Think

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Fred Wilson has a post, Twitter.com vs. The Twitter Ecosystem, that is an essential read for anyone whose job involves Twitter.  Strike that: it's important for anyone in business, period.  I say that because the evolution of Twitter and similar "sharing" services is happening much faster than many people realize and it is reflected in the numbers that Fred shares.  Anyone in business will be directly affected by that trend.

Please read Fred's post for yourself and keep in mind that his audience is a geek-ish, early adopter crowd, but over the five years I've been reading Fred's blog I've found them to be highly predictive of the world of communication and commerce that is about a year down the road. In other words they are behaving now the way the average consumer will be behaving in the next year or two.

Jon Just Planted His Field of Incredulousness on Farmville

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One of my pet peeves about Facebook was getting all those stupid apparently profitable notices about what my friends were doing on Farmville or Mafia Wars.  Thankfully someone showed me how to hide those things, but I'm guessing my lack of participation hasn't hurt the games' parent company, which according to this article may be valued at $1 billion.  You read that right, billion with a "b."  From the article:

That could make San Francisco-based Zynga the third-largest U.S. video-game publisher by market capitalization, bigger than Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., the maker of crime-game franchise “Grand Theft Auto.” New York-based Take-Two had 2008 sales of $1.54 billion and has a market value of $909 million.

Zynga will have revenue of $210 million this year and $355 million next year, according to Justin Smith, founder of the industry-tracking Web site Inside Social Games. The figures are based on estimates of Zynga’s revenue per player across all its games and its number of daily active users, Smith said.

H/T to Ed Cone for the link.

Facebook Fail

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Hmmm.  I tried to log into Facebook this morning and got a nice note saying that, "Your account is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance. It should be available again within a few hours. We apologize for the inconvenience."  I checked with a couple of other people and they aren't having any problems logging in.  Since we're literally logging in from the same network it doesn't appear to be a location based or across-the-board FB issue, so my knee jerk reaction is to wonder if I've joined the small army of people who have had their Facebook accounts fried for no apparent reason.  If so I guess there are worse things in life, but after investing all that time into building my network of new, old, and recently re-acquainted friends it would truly stink to have to rebuild it all.

On another note, if this happened to my daughter it would be the worst thing in life if you asked her.

*Update:  False alarm. Now fully able to waste half a day.