Okay then, now that everybody is using facebook, I can let you in on a little secret. The facebook firefox toolbar. It can get annoying after a while, but it is a fun tool nonetheless once you start using it.
It allows you to see all your friends’ recent facebook activity, and your own data, instantly. It shows up as pop-ups – similar to Outlook’s emails, but… without the option to close these notifications. Oops. It can get especially annoying after a while, but you might really like it too. It’s also nice to see the stats you get on the toolbar – friend requests, events, groups, pokes…
And thanks to Roy who let me in on it. There are currently only ~40k active users on this application (which btw was developed by facebook) according to Adonomics. Which isn’t much I would say. I guess nobody has heard of it, and it’s not a viral application. Okay then now it all makes sense.
Check it out then.
P.S. Did you notice that I started linking to things inside the post? Hurray for me. (Yes yes I know, I’ve done it a gazillion times in the past. But not here.)
May 11, 2008 at 10:34 pm
If you mention the Facebook toolbar, I must give a plug to http://www.digsby.com
I’ve been using it for the past month or so, and I must say that it has got many of the Facebook toolbar functions, and much more.
On the facebook side, it has notifications (that you can shut down whenever you want), status updates, and a Facebook chat interface that is much better than Facebook’s own chat interface.
Besides that – I use its GMail notifier – that is better than Google’s own notifier.
The rest of the IM is working just fine.
Still in Beta, and it has got some serious bugs, but so far it was well worth it…
May 12, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Thanks, looks interesting indeed – I’ll check it out. It’s not as if they don’t all have bugs as well…