“Facebook is like The Jocks and Prom Queens.”

Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites.

A slidedeck which graphically demonstrates why traditional ad models are bound to fail in social networks. It also illustrates the ways messages ought to be released into the wild if you expect them to survive in a group-forming environment.

Based on current trends for low-power chips used in devices like cell phones and iPods, we’re likely to see eight times the CPU power in handheld devices by 2010 that we have today.

Today, search is not a design failure, but part of the user experience. This paper looks at how search has changed as part of the user experience, and the role that good content design plays in making information easy to find.

The lesson: Once your user base has grown beyond a certain point, you cannot take features away from them. This changes the economics of feature additions. If you can’t destroy what you build, each addition holds the threat of clutter.

Most design professionals agree that to produce relevant design work, designers should have knowledge and understanding about cultures and populations other than their own. However, incorporating these issues into practices and processes has not been easy.

Facebook’s power derives from the “social graph”, but how about the technology part?

A long and thorough explanation on why they should not, and if they sometimes may do so, when and how it should be done.

We change technology by creating it, and then it changes us as we use it.