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Facebook's social plugins, especially its popular "Like" button, have spread across the web like wildfire. They were on 50,000+ websites within one week after launch, on 100,000+ sites in less than a month, and are now on 350,000+ sites.There are still millions of web pages, blog posts and videos without "Like" buttons, though. What if you want to share one of those pages with your friends on FacebookFacebook? There's an extension for that.Facebook Like is a Greasemonkey extension that places a "Like" bar on the top of any webpage you visit (except for Facebook.com). It was built by Facebook Engineer Matt Kelly as a personal project during a company Hackathon."If you come across a site without the Like button, you can still use social plugins to share articles with your friends by installing the Facebook Like Greasemonkey script," Facebook told us earlier today. "Built as a personal project by a Facebook engineer at one of Facebook’s company Hackathons, the script makes it possible to have Like, Recommendations and Activity Feed features on any Firefox page you visit."Not only does the script allow you to "Like" any website, but it also includes the social plugin's Recommendations and Activity Feed features. An important note: while the script was built by a Facebook engineer, it is not officially affiliated with the company.Facebook Like works with FirefoxFirefox as long as you have the Greasemonkey add-on installed. It also works with Google ChromeGoogle Chrome, since includes native support for Greasemonkey scripts, while SafariSafari requires GreaseKit.What do you think of the Facebook Like bar? Will you be installing the script? Let us know in the comments.

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I’ll admit that I have a love/hate relationship with Twitter.  I LOVE that Twitter is hyper effective tool to grow our online friends/fan bases and get content to go viral.  I HATE that Twitter is constantly not working due to some unknown technical error.

After having to shut down for 12 hours on Monday due to a database error, Twitter is tired of all the technical issues too, so they’re opening their own Data Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.  (sigh of relief)

Until now Twitter used NTT America’s data center where they did not have full control over their network and system configurations to meet their very specific needs.

Here’s what we should be able to expect from Twitter having their own data center.

1- Twitter is tacking on new users at an ever increasing pace, one of the reasons Twitter can’t seem to stay up and running.  A new, dedicated data center will allow Twitter to configure their data center to handle the growth. (the extra power will help as well)

2- With events like the World Cup, people Tweet A LOT more and Twitter has been pretty shaky trying to handle the massive amount traffic.  The increase power of the new database will enable Twitter to facilitate way more Tweets with out interruption.

3- Twitter has had to shut down a lot of applications to conserve space and power to keep up with everything.  The new data center will give them room to expand their applications and push their new Ads layout.

The data center’s potential positive effects are all great, but even Twitter engineer, Cozzatti, stated that “We frequently compare the tasks of scaling, maintaining, and tweaking Twitter to building a rocket in mid-flight,” meaning that this could all take a bit to fix and straighten out.

Do you think Twitter is yet to reach it’s full potential as they still struggle to find a way to accommodate all their new features and users?  Comment Below, I’d love to hear your thoughts.

A group of researchers from Northeastern University and Harvard University have gathered enough data from Twitter to give us all a snapshot of how we Americans feel throughout a typical day or week.Not only did they analyze the sentiments we collectively expressed in 300 million tweets over three years against a scholarly word list; these researchers also mashed up that data with information from the U.S. Census Bureau, the Google Maps API and more. What they ended up with was a fascinating visualization showing the pulse of our nation, our very moods as they fluctuate over time.The researchers have put this information into density-preserving cartograms, maps that take the volume of tweets into account when representing the land area. In other words, in areas where there are more tweets, those spots on the map will appear larger than they do in real life.It will surprise almost no one to learn that findings indicate a general mood slump mid-day and mid-week, when we are most likely to be at work. Our tweets show that we're happiest in the early morning and late evening; during the week, our mood tends to peak on Sunday morning.Less predictable, perhaps, is the fact that West Coast tweets were "happier" than tweets from the East Coast. Although West Coast Twitter users expressed emotions in the same cycles as the East Coast users (with a three-hour gap, of course, because of time zone differences), the West Coasters didn't dip as low in mood as the East Coasters by a significant margin.For the inforgraphic fans among you, here's a lovely PDF showing some of the data displayed:And here's a cool video showing the American Twitter mood expressions changing over the course of a day:We're pretty fascinated by visualizations like these; what other data or topics would you like to see these researchers tackle next? What use do you think we could get out of the current information they've generated?

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The 2010 American Customer Survey Index conducted by ForeSee Results gave Facebook 64 out of 100 points in a customer satisfaction survey; that's lower than any other business in its category. However, it's not at the bottom of the social media heap; MySpace received one point less. ForeSee Results CEO Larry Freed says that "privacy concerns, frequent changes to the website, and commercialization and advertising" are responsible for the low rating. Those reasons for dissatisfaction mirror the ones revealed in previous surveys.By contrast, GoogleGoogle received a score of 80 (though that's 7 points lower than last year's score), BingBing and WikipediaWikipedia managed a 77, YahooYahoo! pulled a 76 and YouTubeYouTube landed at 73. FacebookFacebook also received a lower rating than any of the major news websites, which were led by FOXNews.com at 82. MSNBC.com and CNN.com trailed behind at 74 and 73 respectively.We'd love to see what TwitterTwitter's score would be, but the survey excluded Twitter because so many of its users experience it through third party applications, making it difficult to judge how much their perceptions reflect Twitter itself.

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Not Dissatisfied Enough

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Even though Facebook's users are dissatisfied, they haven't demonstrated the will to leave. Perhaps it's because there is no strong competitor, or because their social lives would suffer tremendously if they opted out of this now-essential tool for communication and event planning.After the Instant Personalization opt-out controversy, thousands of users committed to quit on May 31. The movement failed when many of them simply didn't. Instead of suffering perceptible negative consequences for its choices, the social network has continued to grow. It will celebrate 500 million users later this week.Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be giving a rare TV interview with Diane Sawyer tomorrow, presumably to talk about the milestone and repair some of the PR damage in the wake of these privacy scandals and in anticipation of the release of the film The Social Network. What do you think he'll say? What does he need to say?

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