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Facebook Is Now the Fourth Largest Site In The World

An extremely improbable rise to success.

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Social Networking Sites Key to SSN Forgery

This could turn into a very big problem rather quickly:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/social-insecurity-numbers-open-to-hacking.ars

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Usability Lab with 140 Million Respondents

Mozilla Labs is creating a plug-in for Firefox that will allow everyday users of the browser to assist in testing new features and give feedback on tasks involving the UI. All of this data will be used to further refine and tweak the user experience in future releases. It seems like a great way to get an enormous amount of valuable data without breaking the bank.

From Mozilla Labs…

“How many tabs does an average user use at a time? How about novice users? How often is the stop button pressed? How many times do people open a new tab to perform a search? There are hundreds of questions like these whose answers would help quantitatively inform the design process of Firefox. At the moment, as evidence in discussions we generally only have access to studies, anecdotes, first principles, early-adopter feedback, and ad-hoc experiments.

While those are all useful, they are no substitute for specific data. ”

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