links for 2009-12-29

One of the many things that annoy me about Facebook is how difficult they make it to import content from several different feeds onto a fan page’s comment wall. I’m by no means a Facebook expert, but I just hacked a solution to that particular problem, and thought I’d share it…

the odds of being on given departure which is the subject of a terrorist incident have been 1 in 10,408,947 over the past decade. By contrast, the odds of being struck by lightning in a given year are about 1 in 500,000.

Facebook is the world's leading social network, with over 300 million users and more than 900 employees. But how do you get the most out of it? To answer this question and more, Mashable has created The Facebook Guide Book, a complete collection of resources to help you master Facebook.

It fascinates me how powerful information is and how much we have to consume each day to remain current. In fact, if I didn’t peruse the live feed on Facebook a week or so ago (I saw Brian Solis commenting on Jeremiah Owyang’s app), I would be late with this post and might have missed the next personal branding phenomenon. One of the trends I’ve noted on the Personal Branding Blog is the rise of video and mobile mediums for branding. Well, aside from Hollywood celebrities developing their own iPhone applications, now everyone will have one. There will be a slow adoption at the beginning, but in about six months to a year, we’re going to see a major growth in this area. The reason might you ask? More eyes are being drawn to the mobile platform than ever before and that number is guaranteed to increase because our phones activate our lives.

Tools that allow non-developers the ability to create their own iPhone apps without knowing programming or scripting. Some are general-purpose app builders designed for small businesses while other target specific needs, like apps for musicians or for eBook authors. Still others let developers familiar with simpler programming languages like HTML write apps using the code they know and then will transform that code into an iPhone application which can be submitted to the iTunes Store.