more excuses

and so Facebook now have an INSTANT MESSENGER. (as of April 23)

as if i don't have enough excuses not to do whatever it is i need to be doing... i refuse to log onto msn for this very reason. but the facebook one is so... cute. i'll use it for a while. and then i'll try and figure out how to turn it off.

Interestingly the connection doesn't appear to be SSL so it might be possible for bad guys to sniff any conversations with your friends.

Also - it's not clear how big corporations and businesses will deal with the new chat service as it's so well integrated it may not be an easy task to block without blocking the whole of Facebook.

Ask the public how to run your business

And so Starbucks has launched a website asking the public for advice.

If you have an idea about how Starbucks should operate, what they should be doing differently, innovative ideas etc - stop by their website.

It's an interesting approach to giving people what they want - i like how they show the people who will be reviewing ideas. And apparently they even implement the good ones...

Cool.