App Of The Week: Greplin

Greplin lets you search the top social networks, email clients and productivity apps, including:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Gmail
  • Google Apps (premium)
  • Evernote
  • Salesforce
  • … more

It’s free to search the most basic apps, but then moves to a premium model for productivity apps, it seems. (I do miss the old days when everything was free…)

The interface looks exactly like Google, which is nice. Works.

But why hasn’t Google offered this service themselves you wonder? Facebook won’t let Google index their data, of course. Those guys are just becoming really tit-for-tat, which if you think about it is all good for us, the consumer. Opens up space for competition by guys like Greplin.

Imagine a world where just eff-book and Goog were collecting our shit? We need to be able to spread our data around a little so everyone can capitalize on it, right? Wait, what?

291 Friend Requests On Facebook?

Down from over 400, so it seems they expire after a while. I’m glad.  It’s anxiety provoking to glance at that side of the FB page and realize there’s some business I’m not taking care of.

Every once in a while I will bang off like five of them, but I almost never accept. I guess I just don’t get why so many 45+ year old gun toting Christian dudes who have like 2 friends, always want to be friends with me…

Isn’t Every Change Facebook Makes Momentous?

After Tweeting BBC’s article on Facebook’s new profile page design, I got this tweet back:

But I have to disagree with @ChrisKettle‘s sentiment. I mean, when a 6th of the earth’s population is suddenly faced with brand new visuals to negotiate, many of whom do not necessarily feel comfortable with change (60+ers, etc)  it is a big ass deal. Right?

What do you think? Are we all making too much of this Facebook thing?