Good God. She’s so damn adorable I want to shrink her up, put her on my keychain, and take her everywhere with me.
The heroic efforts of 500,000+ people on Facebook’s Betty White on SNL (please?) page resulted in the 88 1/2 year old treasure hosting SNL last night. Here’s her monologue:
And here’s a sketch with Tina Fey: (I didn’t know Tina Fey was still on SNL???)
If this is what the upcoming Facebook movie is about – it pretty much sounds like a tech geek version of Bridget Jones’ Diary.
…Harvard sophomore Zuckerburg, a comp-sci major, had gotten the idea for doing an online facebook when he was slightly drunk on a Tuesday night. He’d just been dumped by his girlfriend, he was looking for a distraction, and he hacked into a Harvard database….
Birthday greetings to David Zuckerman.
From Garrison Keillor’s daily journal – the Writer’s Almanac
You hang him. You electrocute him with a toaster in the bathtub. You give him a fistful of pills and a handle of Jack and tell him to wait for you on the train tracks. This is the idea behind the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine – the Kevorkian method for logging out for the last time. I can’t believe we’re here already – but so far 891 people have elected to kill their web identity on all social networking accounts – Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn. For good. Once you do it, there’s no going back and apparently some people are only too happy to say Sayonara Suckers to updates, tweets, notifications, and requests. I can hardly blame them, but for good? Forever? You sure? That’s like getting those mustache-on-your-finger tattoos. Cute joke in a devil-may-care sort of way…but for forever-ever?
I’m completely entertained by the idea of interventions with pleading and handwringing. “Don’t do it ProgMaster428! What about all your pokes?” Or members of Farmville or Mob Wars holding wakes afterward, where they reminisce of the vegetables they’ve grown and the hits they generated. And then there’s all the metaphysical implications that are involved: If you’ve killed your own avatar, what kind of karma have you generated?
Interesting side note: Facebook is now blocking the IP address of the Suicide Machine. No Death Panels at Facebook so it would seem.
PayPal has launched a new site called Do Stuff for Money.
You enter your name, how much you’re paying, to whom you’re offering, and to do what. Paypal then sends them the offer through an email or…and this is where it gets genius – Facebook. You use Facebook Connect so you can browse through your friend list and post the offer on their wall through the Do Stuff for Money website. If the offer is accepted, PayPal will notify you to pay your friend. Great Idea!
Sure the site will generate money and transactions that are serious and legitimate, but I’m betting this will also become a popular tool to post ridiculous offers to friends. And PayPal becomes a fun form of connection for the 200 million users on Facebook.
Check out some of the examples that have already been posted:
I’m on my way over there right now.