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December 8, 2007

Making Fun Of Facebook Is Fun: Add Fake Beacon Actions

Michael Arrington

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Well, I asked for negative Facebook speculation and rumors and, even though I was just kidding, a ton of stuff rolled in.

A new Facebook application called Bonfire is my favorite. The idea is that you can beat third parties who are inserting information about what you did on their sites into your news feed, to the punch.

So now you can insert a statement like “Mike bought Preparation H at Walgreens” directly into your news feed before Walgreens does it for you. It’s obviously a joke, but it’s also a fun way to insert a direct message into your news feed. Enjoy.

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  1. Making Fun Of Facebook Is Fun: Add Fake Beacon Actions  »TechAddress

    December 8th, 2007 at 5:30 pm

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  1. Don Wilson

    December 8th, 2007 at 4:56 pm

    This’ll probably last for a couple of days.

  2. Steve Ballmer

    December 8th, 2007 at 4:58 pm

    I hate all of this “fake” internet stuff!
    You people just need to know when to stop!

    http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

  3. Ben Bernanke

    December 8th, 2007 at 5:01 pm

    I wish I could fling poo at facebook (or scoble).

  4. Eddie

    December 8th, 2007 at 5:05 pm

    Eddie shaved your mama before Victoria’s Secret.

  5. Angela Hayden

    December 8th, 2007 at 5:16 pm

    woo-hoo, i love shit like this. i’m gonna have so much fun.

    see ya later,
    angela hayden
    art goddess

  6. ITrush

    December 8th, 2007 at 5:33 pm

    Sometimes its a good idea to insert some funny things especially if your running a site… it’ll add some spice, just make sure you know what you’re doing.

    Nhick
    http://www.itrush.com

  7. dan

    December 8th, 2007 at 5:37 pm

    this may be worth signing up to facebook for…..nah.

  8. Hasan Luongo

    December 8th, 2007 at 5:41 pm

    i think this is awesome -

    Hasan canceled his comcast cable service because there is nothing but crap on TV and comcast is a virtual monopoly.

    Hasan closed his Yahoo account because he was afraid they would share his user info with the Chinese government and he’d end up getting tortured in jail cell.

  9. pkr

    December 8th, 2007 at 5:41 pm

    what a shitty app.

    whoever was the GENIUS programmer that created it, decided to put a live feed underneath the actual app, thus making the whole thing lag.

  10. gleuch

    December 8th, 2007 at 5:59 pm

    and only took two minutes to hack in order to create customized messages.

  11. Planet Singapore

    December 8th, 2007 at 6:00 pm

    Probably I should use facebook now!

  12. Rob

    December 8th, 2007 at 6:28 pm

    Here’s the funny part:

    Bonfire:
    2 daily active users
    67% of total

  13. Jordan Mitchell

    December 8th, 2007 at 6:37 pm

    Love the idea, but the app is sending my CPU into 100% and crashing Firefox.

  14. Vinay

    December 8th, 2007 at 6:42 pm

    FB War from TC is going in Full Swing! How Sweet :D !

  15. Fish

    December 8th, 2007 at 6:58 pm

    I love how up until the point that Facebook took a star employee from TechCrunch, they were all about sucking FB’s apparently massive D (although, TC may not admit to that now). I love the loyalty, guys. Really, I do.

  16. Sean

    December 8th, 2007 at 7:06 pm

    Heh, I think this is pretty funny :)

    For the first time in months (years?), there’s a TC article about FaceBook that I enjoyed reading.

  17. Daniel

    December 8th, 2007 at 7:41 pm

    this will be a great tool for Dan Ackerman!

  18. Jason

    December 8th, 2007 at 8:39 pm

    LOL. I knew it was only a matter of time!

  19. Siva Nadarajah

    December 8th, 2007 at 9:40 pm

    I just don’t get the draw to social sites like facebook. Are people going to move to using Facebook as a substitute for meeting friends face to face?

    I have heard dozens of people telling me that they use facebook as a tool to keep track of their friends’ lives. Why aren’t we giving people a call and talking to them?

    Facebook and other social sites like it are the future of ’socializing’ and I would bet that people are going to be acting really strange when it comes time to meet someone in person. So much so, it may be considered strange.

    Moreover, we spend time worrying about privacy on one side and then want people to read all about ourselves on blogs and such. So what’s it going to be? Are future biographies going to be written by computers that get a feed from a chip in the person’s brain or will we still have the luxury of reading a slightly biased view from someone close to the subject?

  20. jr

    December 8th, 2007 at 9:40 pm

    whats a facebook?

  21. Ghaus

    December 8th, 2007 at 10:26 pm

    I can bet that Mike gets thousands of dollar daily to write about Facebook.

    This is the top-secret Pay per Post thing………..STOP WRITING ABOUT FACEBOOK MIKE !!!!!

    Thanks…huh*

  22. Hilarious

    December 9th, 2007 at 12:00 am

    Looks like that app is down. No more bonfire.

  23. Dheeraj Sultanian

    December 9th, 2007 at 12:28 am

    3 users? What’s the web 2.0 valuation of that program - like $1B?

  24. tony2008

    December 9th, 2007 at 12:41 am

    sorry,i don’t find such a app. in facebook’s app. dictionary.But i wanna try it.I think it must very interesting :)

  25. Shannon Whitley

    December 9th, 2007 at 12:57 am

    “About eight hours ago, we released a new application called Bonfire to test the crashability of peoples’ browsers and discover the level of excrement that they will tolerate. We’ve made a lot of mistakes building this application. If your browser crashed, or you hacked the app, or your level of application-excrement was exceeded, I apologize for it. While I am disappointed with our mistakes, we appreciate all the feedback we have received from our two users. I’d like to discuss what we have learned and how we have improved Bonfire…but not today.”

    Tom Anderson (no relation)
    CEO
    Bonfire

  26. Rajeev

    December 9th, 2007 at 2:09 am

    Cool.

    http://tekno-world.blogspot.com

  27. James

    December 9th, 2007 at 4:38 am

    And those who think it’s a fb war - bullshit. It’s not a fb war. arrington has stock in the company, he’s trying his best to bring it up as much as possible and keep ti relevant. that’s all.

  28. Chris R.

    December 9th, 2007 at 7:58 am

    what a very useful application. Very productive.

  29. Ryan Merket

    December 9th, 2007 at 7:40 pm

    NO ONE CAN SEE YOUR NEWS FEED UNLESS THEY HAVE THE SAME APPLICATION ADDED.

    That is all.

  30. Shannon Whitley

    December 10th, 2007 at 7:07 am

    @Ryan Merket

    You’re behind in your reading, my friend.

    http://developers.facebook.com.....p;story=55

  31. nono

    December 10th, 2007 at 7:40 am

    coool man i love reading your post it gives me lots of info that i dont have to go elsweare to read it :)

  32. nono

    December 10th, 2007 at 7:53 am

    cool one

  33. Scary Things

    December 10th, 2007 at 12:12 pm

    Cool add-on. What bothers me about facebook is how all of the apps frequently crash or have some error. So when you’re trying to post something, you have to start all over. Facebook needs to refine their platform and get rid of bugs.

  34. advancedovariancancersymptom

    December 11th, 2007 at 7:41 am

    Facebook gives us the option to share with our friends those unforgettable moments, but it as well allows us to know other people… is only necessary to have just a little bit of time to dedicate to Facebook, and that is something on which we did not count at our time.

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