Hey everyone,

This one’s a wish list, not a to do list, because although I can do something to fulfill my wishes for WordPress and other Open Source stuff, the most I can do for Facebook is send them e-mails and pray. But I wouldn’t want to waste my prayer time on Facebook so I can just send them e-mails. But they’d reply with the same generic message: “maybe we will some day (which means never) but thanks for your e-mail,” so… wish list it is!

1) A simple option in your privacy settings to turn of all new application requests. Why so lazy on something so obvious, Facebook??

2) An option when you’re inviting Friends, to invite them all. I understand most people have different types of friends in their list, but for a power user like myself - I have four of five different accounts with different types of people in each account. And I don’t want to click 100 names. [Update: Here's an awesome FireFox add-on called Check All which can help with that.]

3) The option to change the name of your group, within reason. They have a no exceptions policy on this, and I think that’s unfortunate. Sometimes you start a group, it gets big, and the mission or vision changes, but you don’t want to have to ask all 600 or 6,000 or 60,000 people to move to a new group!

4) Functionality to work with large groups. Usually on Facebook, after your group has more than 1,000 members, a lot of the functions stop working. You can’t message all members, you can’t make officers or admins. It just gets silly.

5) Better Video. Facebook’s video extension has issues. Sometimes videos that are being processed just disappear. Sometimes you can’t tag people. Strangeness!

One thing I am really liking, however, is the Graffiti Wall public gallery. Many of the full time artists are using tablets to draw it, but still some very nice stuff.

Image by: Anna Leychenko

Hey everyone,

I’m introducing a new feature on the blog tonight called The Hunt. Almost everyone’s seen images or video of a predator hunting its prey in the jungle. The lioness, the zebra, the natural elements, the suspense, the thrill, etc. etc. Well every Monday morning I’ll define a prey (in the theme of the typical corporate manager on a Monday morning!!), or more specifically a problem with some business or technology issue, and all week I’ll be trying to kill the problem. Not quite as thrilling as the lions and zebras, but as the solutions to the problems get more useful for you and me, I’m sure you’ll start enjoying it.

The basic rules: I’ll continue updating The Hunt throughout the week. I might find the answer early on, but I’ll keep discussing the topic to provide insight on all angles. You can let me know in the comments if, by the end of the week, I killed the problem, just got a bite, or if I missed it. You’re welcome to help me out with your comments, or you can e-mail me at info [at] kulpreetsingh [dot] com.

Lion Photo Source: Chris Gin

-k.s.

Social networking websites such as Facebook are more effective than the emergency services and media at dealing with disasters, a new report claims. - Telegraph.co.uk