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I am so all over the recent push of new tools from Facebook. The boy faced billionaire CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg outlined a series of simplified and more seamless experiences for users with the Facebook Open Graph platform during Facebook’s F8 developers conference in San Francisco.

These social plug-ins, which are dropped into sites and allow the user to see which of your friends like content around the Web, will make Facebook applications a lot more social, said Zuckerberg, without sharing any unnecessary data.

There are now more than 400 million people on Facebook, four times as many as there were the last time Facebook held an F8 event. It took Facebook only a year for Facebook Connect to have 100 million users on both mobile devices and Web sites.

"These connections aren’t just happening on Facebook, they’re happening all over the Web, and today with the Open Graph we’re bringing all these things together," Zuckerberg said.

This is something that will go far beyond the "news feed" structure that Facebook pioneered several years ago. "The stream is ephemeral. You post something to the stream and people see it for a few hours and then it mostly floats away," Zuckerberg said of the current craze in real-time streaming information–a possible dig at Twitter, the company that ignited it all and has been encroaching upon Facebook territory with its own "@Anywhere" product.

"We’re going to make it possible to make those connections," Zuckerberg said. For example, a "news feed" item about a Yelp review of a restaurant could bring up more information about the restaurant and which of a user’s Facebook friends have been there.

"We’re going to connect all of those different graphs together to form the Open Graph, and when we connect all of those graphs together, the Web is going to get a whole lot better," Zuckerberg said.

So of course I had to see what the hell the dude what talking about and WOW! Look above. I am loving these new plug ins that work so easily. Above are two of the Facebook social plugins you can add called Activity Feed and the Recommendations one…also at the bottom of the post you will see the NEW Like button which is a huge improvement over the old Fan buttons. If you want to see this in action here is what you can do…

1) Press the like button below to ad your "like" to this post

2) Refresh the page and look at the Recent Activity and you should see your action IN REAL TIME

This is so freakin sweet isn’t it? Facebook will NOT be left behind in social media and it is quickly becoming my favorite social platform of choice…this week, LMAO. Next week I am sure I will change again.

This one really got me buzzing. I am a "Crackberry" addict and I have not been able to shake the addiction NOR am I trying. I guess the guys at WordPress knows that and made this just for me

WordPress for BlackBerry Public Beta is here and I cannot wait to get this on my Curve. Keep in mind that this version is right now in Beta post so it will have bugs and you need to be prepared for that if you use it.  This  is an Open Source project. Source available at http://blackberry.svn.wordpress.org/ 

Check out the video below to see it in action or click HERE to download it.

To install the beta application: Point your BlackBerry browser to http://blackberry.wordpress.org/install and follow the instructions.

Yeah yeah… I’m displaying my inner geek (which by the way, is well protected in the body of an offensive lineman).  People have asked me many times which platform to use and I always suggest WordPress over the others, simply because they are push blogging to new levels constantly.

Even though it still in public beta mode right now and the smart minds (geeks) are still in development, I have to say this news is WAY COOL!