Been playing with a few new apps. And started a new group, Swindonauts. I feel it may turn into a better ning site though...

Just want to say something about the last facebookslamshut post: I fucking called it and Microsoft pipped them to the post

Before I was looking at the ultimately useful apps that provided connectivity between the other sites I use, (Still awaiting a LibraryThing app), and avoiding those I felt had no greater purpose. This time I kicking around some things that have caught my attention but still avoiding those sticker-trading ones (Pirate, zombies, ninjas, gardens, fisktank etc.)

Wikimono is the first to try Wikis within Facebook, taking the definition of a wiki as a multi-editor document. I'm sure there is some use for it, but I've not really thought of one.

Very few ideas have spawned so many offshoots as Twitter. Whilst they have an official app to go with their official use, Twittervision ("where are you?" as well as "what are you doing?") has integrated into facebook, making it all more mobile. I do wonder how well Facebook would stand up as a travelog.

If only I wanted people to know where I was...

There's a lot of activism on Facebook, from using Groups as a petition to the Causes app which try to add some comradeship to the usual guilt-trip approach to donating to charities and NGOs. Their even a sticker approach.

One I found surprising is Greenbook, which promises CO₂ reduction through some kind of sponsorship. I love how pre-2.0 this all sounds, that somehow digitalising something will make money and be successful. All credit to them as they seem to be trying really hard and adding other eco-aspect to it will help.

SuperBadger, on the other hand, is digitalising something that's time-consuming: Writing letters to important people. I love how they do this in the form of a sticker. Instead of clicking a person and having your Buxom Wench Novice Vampire "bite" them for blood points, this sends a prewritten email for "sett" points. Delightful.

Since Facebook has it fair share of decision makers and politicians, I think this idea is really good. I personally see a greater value in this app than advertising its Christian roots. In fact, I would strongly suggest changing that page. I believe in preventing climate change and ethical trade because it appeals to my sense of justice, not because I want to join "a global network of local churches" to "release [people] from material and spiritual poverty" and "raise up 1 million radical disciples".

Because, frankly, that's scary language.

Right, I'm struggling to find any more useful ones. I'm going to play Batman.

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