FTI: Cost of a Whopper? 10 Facebook Friends

Fast food chain Burger King seems to think people will. In their recently launched Facebook application aptly named “WHOPPER Sacrifice“, you get a free WHOPPER if you delete 10 friends.

As of 11.30am (GMT+8), the counter on the “whopper sacrifice” shows that a whopping (pun intended) 96421 friends have been sacrifice, bringing a total of 9642 whoppers issued. Quite a huge number considering that the people you sacrifice will be published on your news feed. Judging from the number of people sacrificed, it seems that this is not a major concern. Neither are people concerned with what the person being deleted might think.. It is definitely a weird thought that you’re sacrificed for a burger…

Seeing that most Facebook users have quite  a number of people who they don’t know on real life, only their online profiles, I guess sacrificing some may not seem like a very big deal. Well, I guess you can always add those people you deleted again.

So, would you do it?

FTI: Groove to the tunes

For people like me with the lack of cash and thus have small music libraries, online streaming sites like last.fm have always been an avenue for me to listen to music.

I’ve been on last.fm for a while now and it has served me well.. However, the one issue I have with last.fm is its speed. Though streaming is generally fine, the speed of the search feature and the website as a whole still have room for improvements. Although this problem is solved by using their desktop client, I’m not always on a computer with the last.fm desktop client installed. It’s because of this reason that I’ve been turning increasingly to another music network recently.

I don’t usually talk about online services BUT music-based social network Grooveshark really caught my attention.

Screenshot of the music-based social network Grooveshark

As with all social sites, you can search the music database and listen to streaming audio from thousands of artists. Furthermore, it is possible to embed songs into web sites and social networking profiles, or share them via email or Instant Messages.

The important factor that made me turn to the site was the speed at which searches are made as well as the familiar interface it has. Even if you have been on a computer hiatus and have not been on the internet for a year or so, using the service wouldn’t be problem.

So if you are away from your personal computer and craving for some music, head over to Grooveshark to satiate your hunger.

Anyway, here are the links to the 2 services mentioned:

• Grooveshark
• Last.fm

NTR: I’m (resist..) on Twitter

After much resistance on my part, I’ve succumbed to the social networking world and joined Twitter…

It seems that I may get to squeeze some productivity aspects out of twitter. Currently I have a service set up  to push my blog post to twitter.. I’m so glad that at least the service supports OpenID… I really wish most sites would go on and support it now. Its really much more convenient.

Anyway, now I have to go look through all those Lifehacker and Mashable Twitter tips that I’ve skipped in defiance…

Oh and my Twitter URL: http://twitter.com/fusedthought