Navarr's Tech Side

As we speak, Facebook is developing their own chat application, which may or may not allow communication over the Jabber/XMPP Protocol (we all hope it will though).

I, however, like several other nerds that probably exist out there, am trying to get a look at it first.  And, I’ve gotten very close to succeeding, but I’m very far away.  From the video, I discovered that the employee was using http://www.dev.facebook.com/ which is a special domain name, resolving to 10.1.100.106, and Internal IP address.  Upon setting the IP to that of Facebook in my HOSTS file, I can manage to very slowly pull up a web page.

Anyone else have any further luck getting to the Development version of Facebook?

How many people have wondered which social networking website they should use?  Of all the choices, MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, and so many others.  Yet, with all of the competition, the majority are at either MySpace or Facebook.  Well, which one should be your main account?  Some people (like myself) create multiple accounts on nearly every network just for the sake of staying connected to your friends.  So, why are these two networks so popular?

All in all (in my opinion anyway) Facebook is a lot more organized and a lot easier to use (once you get the hang of it).  Maybe this is why it had a growth of 102% when MySpace only grew 2?