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Dennis Howlett’s filling in for Dan Farber over at ZdNet, and he’s waxing enthusiastic and interesting on the utility of Facebook in the enterprise. I buy it, for the most part. Facebook has a lot going for it compared to MySpace, for instance; much better look and feel, no creepy dating/escort service ads.

But in a real enterprise tool, this wouldn’t be the page where you enter your profile:

When you’re first registering with Facebook just to see if it has any use for you in the business world, it’s offputting to be asked for your relationship status. [As hard as I laughed at the last option: "It's complicated!"] I think the site will have to do some persona analysis to support users who graduate, who are joining decades after college, and so on. You should be able to flag yourself as a student, a professional, and so on, with the site UI changing to accommodate your needs.

I think HR folks might find it pretty problematic for a manager to ask his/her team to use this offering, even with an appropriate disclaimer.

It’s not a game breaker, but it’s always jarring to find out how badly a piece of software misunderstands what you want.

There’s probably an app to write in there, a business to start…for someone.

My meeting’s over, so I’ve had a little time.  I went to the Imperial War Museum this afternoon, then did a little shopping at this little place:

Satellite view of Harrod’s

Tomorrow I’ve got a whole day to myself, so I’m planning to start at the Victoria and Albert Museum:

Satellite view of V & A

Check out the cool uncovered dome at the center-front of the building.

I don’t think I’ll go to the British Museum this time around, since it’s the one tourist destination in London I’ve been to before this trip.  Still, it takes quite a satellite photo:

Google Maps view of British Museum

Actually, the whole thing doesn’t fit in the frame in the highest zoom level — let’s raise the satellite up another mile:

Zoomed-out Google Maps view of British Museum

After the V&A, I’ll head down to the Churchill Museum & Cabinet War Rooms:

GMAPS view of Churchill Museum

I brought a camera this time, so I’ll have some pictures to post when I get back….

via Steven Gould

Google image search allows you to specify that you want pictures of faces.

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=skott+klebe&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2&imgtype=face

Apparently, though, you can’t specify which faces you want.

I’m the handsome guy on the left.  The other two guys are my cousins.

so I could see this.  Chris Jordan is opening a new show with heroically-scaled images graphically depicting American consumption rates of some common products: 8 million toothpicks, one for every tree harvested to make paper for mail order catalogs, two million plastic beverage bottles, the numer used every five minutes.  Five feet tall, ten feet wide.

SK

Look, no one could possibly be more excited than I about the promise of Google Gears, when Techmeme lit up with stories about it my pulse actually beat faster, and all, but damn!

I want Google Reader to start working again!

H/T to Elizabeth Bear, although I can’t find the post any more.

of bandwidth and the human spirit.

Courtesy of Maureen McHugh and S. Andrew Swann.

I can’t believe how much I enjoyed Star Trek when I was ten.  No wonder Star Wars blew us all away.