appssavvy, the providers of direct sales services for the social media industry, released an entertaining video today that poke fun at some of the industry buzz words. If you’ve read this site or our other site SocialTimes.com, there’s a good chance you’ve heard some of these words. If you go to any of the industry conferences you’ve most definitely heard topics like virality and engagement but most people don’t know what that means.

Chris Cunningham, the CEO of appssavvy, navigates around New York City and presents many of the industry value propositions to random people. Check it out below.
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This morning I stumbled across an interesting video of a Sri Lankan television ad in which Mobitel is promoting their new service which provides Facebook support. Interestingly enough it doesn’t appear that Mobitel is offering anything unique in that it simply integrates through Facebook’s mobile interface. I couldn’t tell you if Facebook was invested in this campaign or not but it appears that Mobitel is not the largest mobile provider in Sri Lanka.
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While at SXSW, Kristen Nicole had the opportunity to sit down with Loic Le Meur about Seesmic’s new desktop integration with Facebook. Seesmic’s desktop application is one of the first (if not the first) to launch with full Facebook Connect support and illustrates the power of integrating into Facebook’s social graph. There are still a few kinks and additional features that Loic would like to add as Facebook continues to open up their API. Check out the video below to learn more about what Seesmic has planned for the future.
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I’ve been reading tons of articles about yesterday’s Facebook announcements and have been trying to digest them. What has been most amazing is the wide range of semi-accurate reporting taking place. For example, Brendan Gahan at Gigaom inaccurately states that, “In another move that mimics the Twitter functionality, Facebook announced that from now on there will no longer be a limit to the number of friends a user can have (the previous limit was 5,000). There will also no longer be Facebook ‘Pages’ everyone will have profiles instead.”

I can understand why Brendan perceived that to be the case and I can also understand that some of these announcements do more to confuse companies then help them even though many of the changes were made with benevolent intentions. So what exactly are the primary changes and why are some of them being so misconstrued? Also, were these updates a move against Twitter, FriendFeed, or none of the above?
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This video below popped up in my newsfeed this evening and I had to post it. Jack Lindamood posted the video of the Java application he created at the Facebook hackathon. It is pretty impressive and produces some pretty cool animations. Check out the video below for more.