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Inti Romero 

A public Facebook profile whose photos have been censored with pixelation.

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Facebook Demetricator 

A browser add-on that removes all quantifiable information in your Facebook page, taking away any social currency or values from sight.

Developed by Ben Grosser, he got in contact to tell me what it’s all about:

Under its influence, Facebook no longer foregrounds how many friends you have, or how much people like your status. Instead these numbers are stripped away, inviting you to try the system without these things, to enable a network society that isn’t dependent on quantification. 

More at his website:

The Facebook interface is filled with numbers. These numbers, or metrics, measure and present our social value and activity, enumerating friends, likes, comments, and more. Facebook Demetricator is a web browser addon that hides these metrics. No longer is the focus on how many friends you have or on how much they like your status, but on who they are and what they said. Friend counts disappear. ’16 people like this’ becomes ‘people like this’. Through changes like these, Demetricator invites Facebook’s users to try the system without the numbers, to see how their experience is changed by their absence. With this work I aim to disrupt the prescribed sociality these metrics produce, enabling a network society that isn’t dependent on quantification.

You can find out more and get the add-on at Ben’s site here

Neticones 

Online net art project can turn a webcam photo into a mosaic made from Facebook icons.

Try it out here

Social Network Clock

Time-based visualization of social network activity based on bitly data, by retronator:

Today’s random idea to create a webpage: the Social Network Clock!

A few weeks back bitly posted some interesting data that hints when people use different social networks. Today’s stupid idea for not playing Minecraft all day involved creating a CSS3 time display webpage that overlays current time over the graphs published by bitly.

Tumblr is apparently the party network for evenings and weekends so cheers to you guys!

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Glitchr - Animated GIF Files in Facebook

Glitchr, the Facebook page that exploits bugs and errors within Facebook to create glitch aesthetics, demonstrates how it is possible to have small animated GIF files played within a post. Facebook doesn’t support the GIF format, so it is interesting to see it appear.

The file has to be incredibly small (38 kb, 130 x 98 pixels), and relabeled as an .mp3 file.

See for yourself here

Timeline Movie Creator

Project created with both Facebook and Definition 6, taking your photos and other shares and putting them into a visual moving archive.

You need to have activated the Timeline feature (and at least 75 photos uploaded).

http://www.timelinemoviemaker.com/

UPDATE

The Next Web has a better analysis of the app, which you can read here

Facebook Page Performance Art Glitchr Purposefully Tries To Activate Code Glitches

Interesting to see TechCrunch covering a glitch / unicode art project (and even more amusing to see people leaving comments in Unicode style!):

Making the link rounds among designers in Silicon Valley this holiday season is Facebook fan page Glitchr, which tries to mess up Facebook code on purpose.

While I had previously postulated that the page might be run by the venerable former Facebooker Evan Priestley, instead it is run by some Greek dude, Laimonas Zakas. Click on any of the links in Glitchr’s posts and they will do anything from bring up random Unicode characters to load a Facebook navigation bar multiple times. Go on, don’t be afraid.

So how does he do it? Well, Zakas essentially “paints” with Unicode, combining its non-character entities to break layout engines — creating what might just be society’s most obscure and recent art form.

“These symbols, intruding up and down, are made by combining lots of diacritical marks,” says Zakas, “You can see the variety of them there http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diacritic. Yes, It’s a kind of art. There’s quite a lot of artists who use the Internet or specific social networks as their canvas.”

More about the project here (interesting to read how some, but not all, Facebook staff like the page as it helps find bugs in the code).

“Facebook Is The New Suburbia” by Hugh MacLeod (aka GapingVoid)

Facebook, 1984, by Robert Penney

Via The Retronaut

From my Facebook feed, someone’s Christmas tree …

The UnFacebook World - A Map Visual That Shows Where Facebook Isn’t Used

This is a mashup of two world maps: NASA’s earth at night and Facebook’s friendship map. By subtracting one from the other, we get an image the shows only cities that don’t use Facebook.

Dark = Facebook
Yellow = No Facebook

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Go to the original post to see the high definition version

Facelr - Tumblr theme to make your Tumblr blog look like Facebook Timeline (via Read Write Web)

It was only a matter of time before an awesome Tumblr theme developer created a theme that looks exactly like Facebook’s Timeline. That time has come thanks to creative agency Playground, Inc.

In a blog post today, the company announced its new free Tumblr theme Facelr, which makes your Tumblr blog look strikingly similar to what your profile will look like on Facebook once Timeline launches publicly.

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