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I was looking for this and having trouble finding working code. It puts this box on your fan page using the static FBML application (for a movie I’m working on):

The working code for this is:
<fb:request-form
method=”post”
type=”Play On Official Movie Fan Page”
invite=”true”
content=”Check out Play On the Official Movie Fan Page<fb:req-choice url=’http://www.facebook.com/pages/Play-On-The-Rugby-Movie-Official-Fan-Page/122875067756788′ ‘ label=’GO’ /> “>
<fb:multi-friend-selector actiontext=”Tell your [...]

Seriously, it’s getting a bit out of hand: 

That’s not even counting the 50 or 60 messages below that want to tell me how to “EXPLODE MY TWITTER ACCOUNT BY 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 NEW FOLLOWERS PER DAY!!!!111!!11!!1!!!1 ASK ME HOW!!!!111!!!1!!!!!!!! http://www.bit.ly/1234” yet most of them have around 50-60 followers. 
 

I had to deal with the issue several hours today of Wordpress stripping out any line break code I tried. I assume it’s some sort of bug, although it seems to be happen with all versions of wordpress. It seems to happen after you left-align a picture. Anyway, I read multiple blogs and none of [...]

This came across my Twitter account this morning and it was something I was worried about. Applications are seeing a drop in use across the board. I’m not surprised a day after the redesign, I lost things our company developed, and I couldn’t find other apps I use. It’s not well pointed out that apps [...]

This is a continuation from the Web 2.0 Expo: Why Social Media Marketing Fails- And How to Fix it . Can’t agree more. I’m not even sure if we should be calling it marketing or doing “marketing campaigns” since that’s not what building relationships or producing thought leadership content in social media is about. I [...]

Interesting article over at Marketing Pilgrim. It appears the over 35 crowd is growing at an extremely fast pace:
Full Article: http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/03/facebook-grays-over-35-users-double-in-60-days.html
Snippit:
Inside Facebook regularly examines user demographics on the world’s most popular social network. The graying of Facebook trend continues, they report, with women over 55 constituting the fastest-growing demographic, while the number of active users [...]

First Microsoft killed the printed dictionary with Encarta then the Internet killed Encarta with free, fluid content:
From:http://newsblaze.com/story/20090330160032howa.nb/topstory.html
Microsoft has confirmed that it’s pulling the plug on its Encarta encyclopaedia software, as Wikipedia continues to dominate the online reference market. In a message on the Encarta website, Microsoft tacitly admits that Wikipedia has pulled the rug on [...]

So the new buzz is that Birmingham City University is going to start offering a masters degree in social media. It reflects the growing demand for social media professionals, people who understand how to utilize these social platforms for marketing reasons.
I read this article on the subject: http://www.tcapushnpull.com/?p=505

Of course, one of the things I noticed [...]

So I just got this e-mail a few minutes ago:
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Hi Andrew,
I want to see what plans, if any, you have for an affiliate program in 2009?
We’re finding that marketers are increasingly turning to affiliate marketing in a bid to extend their online reach.  We have helped the best companies on the internet extend their online [...]

Good article on managing the “Facebook Generation” things are definately going to change for managers:
From: http://blogs.wsj.com/management/2009/03/24/the-facebook-generation-vs-the-fortune-500/
By Gary Hamel
The experience of growing up online will profoundly shape the workplace expectations of “Generation F” – the Facebook Generation. At a minimum, they’ll expect the social environment of work to reflect the social context of the Web, rather [...]