While you were sleeping 2/5/2010

Facebook celebrated it’s 6th bday yesterday — stunning the impact they have had on the world…

“According to Wikipedia and its Info page, Facebook was launched exactly six years ago, on February 4, 2004. Back then it was called “Thefacebook,” and it was originally located at thefacebook.com, but it’s definitely the same project.” Source: Happy 6th Birthday, Facebook!

To celebrate it, they mucked up the home page layout again…

“Facebook is celebrating its sixth birthday today with a dramatic redesign of the homepage that millions of people see when they log on every day.” Source: Facebook’s Major Redesign Emphasizes Search and So Much More

Oh, and they passed 400 million members making them the 3rd largest ‘nation’ in the world so they probably don’t care if you don’t like the homepage rerereredesign…

“Two months ago the social network hit 350 million, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg reminds us that number was less than half of today’s 400 million mark a year ago. It took the site about three months to climb from 300 to 350 million users and only about two months to gain another 50 million, indicating Facebook’s explosive growth is actually still accelerating.” Source: Facebook Passes the 400 Million User Mark

The Apple/Google feud continues…

“Apparently “Android” is a four-letter word in Cupertino. The flash card app Flash of Genius was a finalist in Google’s Android Developer Challenge, and the developers thought that was worth mentioning in the description of the iPhone version of their app. Apple didn’t agree, and sent the developers an email asking them to remove the Android line from their app description, under threat of an “interruption” in Flash of Genius’ availability on the app store.” Source: Apple orders Android mention scrubbed from App Store

And Sendible relaunched…

“Sendible, a service for scheduling and posting messages to social networks like Twitter and Facebook, has recently relaunched with some great new features that should prove very useful for social media marketers.” Source: Sendible Relaunches; Now a Powerful Social Media Marketing Tool – WebWorkerDaily

Have a great Friday!