Give Your Facebook Page a Facelift

Recently Robert Scoble interviewed Caitlin O’Farrell for the new building43 site which was recently launched by Robert and the team over at RackSpace.  Caitlin is the program manager for consumer marketing at Facebook.  Caitlin spends her time working with celebrities or, as she notes, their publicists, to provide them with a Facebook presence.

Google AdSense coming to iPhone, Android Apps

A couple of days ago, Google announced the beta launch of AdSense for Mobile Apps. This is a new facility which iPhone and Android app developers can use to earn extra bucks by displaying text and image ads on their applications.

According to Google, AdSense for Mobile Apps would give advertisers new ways of reaching their potential customers and application developers to show the best ads to their users. The program has already been tested with some and Google thought that the program is now ready for public consumption.

At the White House: A Wall of Newspapers

Who says newspapers are dead? Not the White House, apparently.

Every morning, White House staffers have taken to printing out
dozens of front pages of newspapers from across the country and pinning
them to a wall in the press office.

Today, headlines screamed of Michael Jackson's death in scores of
newspapers on the newspaper wall outside of the office of Deputy Press
Secretary Josh Earnest.

The newspaper front pages are shrunken down and printed out on
small, 8-1/2 by 11-inch paper, losing their color and some of their
punch.

But to newspaper reporters weary of the repeated declarations that
their industry is doomed, it's nonetheless something of a bright spot.

Google Thought Michael Jackson Traffic Was Attack

Google has confirmed that the surge of Michael Jackson-related searches on Google News Thursday was first interpreted as an attack on its service.

Google News was inaccessible for some people Thursday afternoon right as rumors of Jackson's death began to circulate, replaced by an error message reading "We're sorry, but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now."

Via @PatrickRuffini