Brian’s Log

lite.facebook.com
I just found out about this today through Webware CNET.
I would have loved this several months back.

I've used Twitter before I became an active user of Facebook and I thought, "Facebook website is too much for me. I'm just going to use iPhone Facebook app. That has everything I need."

Now I'm enjoying everything Facebook has to offer, but back then Facebook website looked to busy. Too much for me to handle.

Do you like Twitter's simplicity? Do you think Facebook website is too much and too cluttered?
Try Facebook Lite.

Google Maps Adds Traffic Conditions to Major Roads [Google Maps]

By Adam Pash, 10:00 AM on Tue Aug 25 2009 [lifehacker]

Arterial traffic available on Google Maps [Google LatLong]
The bright side of sitting in traffic: Crowdsourcing road congestion data [Official Google Blog]

If you say yes, Google is crowdsourcing your data. Google knows where you are and how fast you are moving.

I'd normally say "Opt in by default. Take action to opt out" is bad. But for more accurate live traffic information on freeways as well as major roads? Hmm... Given that I drive in LA traffic and I will continue to do so for more years to come, I think I'm fine with sharing my data with Google for this matter.

I do 50-mile round trip commute to work everyday and I do drive off freeways quite a bit, so I love this major road traffic data on my iPhone 3G. I hate it when I get stuck in a local street and have no idea why traffic is jammed. Sometimes it's an accident and sometimes there are constructions going on. If you run into this in the morning and you only have 5 minutes left to get in in time? You'll be frustrated.
Now, I can see traffic data on most, if not all, of local roads that I drive on. This is great.

I have one request for you though, Google.
Can we make the road names visible even when traffic is turned on? You could make it semi-transparent, can't you?
I have to turn off traffic info to see road names. I find this kind of annoying when I'm driving in unfamiliar areas.

I find myself using more Facebook and almost no Twitter these days. I only use Twitter when there is an interesting event is currently going on. Other than that, I use Facebook to connect with friends and use Google Reader for news and other info that I'm interested in.

Twitter is growing, but Facebook is where everyone is. And I think it will stay that way.

I have an iPhone 3G and I can't wait to try out the new Facebook app 3.0. It looks like push notification isn't included in this release, but once that happens it's game over for me. I won't be waiting for Twitter push notification service anymore. I only have a few friends on Twitter anyways.

It will be interesting to see what will come out of Facebook+FriendFeed.
Twitter might just go away...