AJ Vaynerchuk

Background

Yesterday Adium released a beta version of their program that supported Facebook Chat. As one would assume Adium now allows you to log into your Facebook profile and chat with your friends without ever entering a browser.

Does it work?

Sure does! Adium did a wonderful job seamlessly adding in Facebook chat. I have the instant messenger service set up for aol instant messenger, gchat, and now Facebook Chat.

Problems

Running Adium with Facebook Chat enabled makes browsing Facebook a terrible experience. Every page you attempt to visit requires a log in. Every step you take is accompanied by yet another prompt to log-in. It is basically a see-saw effect of you logging out of Adium, and then in turn Facebook. One has to wonder if Facebook built the platform like this intentionally to stop companies such as Adium from building this type of application.

What do you think?

Do you like having Facebook Chat within Adium? Have you experienced the continual log outs? Do you think Facebook did this on purpose?

Image courtesy of allfacebook

Facebook has released its new profile design. This design is still in beta, meaning that it could still change over the next few weeks. Either way it looks like Facebook will be making this switch before the end of June.

What Facebook thinks of the new design:

We believe that the new design makes profiles cleaner and simpler, gives users more control over their profiles, and emphasizes recent and relevant information.

Personally I feel the new design is a little too spread out and disconnected. The information is very spread out, and seems to cater to users with heavy amounts of data. Some of my friends profiles looks so empty and ugly, that wasn’t the case before. This new design seems to solve the issue with cluttered profiles, but create a new one with empty profiles.

What do you think of the new design? What could be better? What did Facebook do right?

* Want to play with Facebook’s New Profile? Link: http://www.new.facebook.com/profile.php

Sorry Jason Calacanis, Robert Scoble, Justine Ezarik, and all you other “Facebook Whales,” the 5,000 friend limit stays - at least according to :

* This was just for fun

I, along with all of you, have friends who have no idea what Twitter is. Playing off that idea, here is what happens when you link your twitter to your Facebook status:

What about your friends?

Some of my friends are so confused by my “twittering” that they call me out on it on Facebook. I have also hung out with some friends (the ones that I see every now and then) and had them ask me why the heck I was always “twittering.” Do your friends react the same way? What is the funniest thing a friend has said to you about your Twitter habits?