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ON: NASA's Design Team

Core 77 visited NASA's industrial design team and spoke to two of three industrial designers working in NASA's Habitability Design Center (HDC).  In just over 2 years they have transitioned the department from one that dealt only with small isolated ergonomic projects to working on arguably the most exciting project at NASA today—a next generation pressurized lunar rover.

Read the full article at Core 77

ON: The Onion's YouTube Contest

I am loving this!

YouTube Contest Challenges Users To Make A 'Good' Video
Check out the joke here http://www.theonion.com/content/node/89922

ON: Millions of Mainstream Interactions

Have you seen this one?  I was catching up on my favorite blogs when I saw this over at Verdino's. This is a mind blowing video.



More brands need to see this video! Especially those who do not think that their consumers actually participate in a form of social media. (yes they are still out there)

This video was created by a team of FB engineers during an in-house "hack-a-thon".
What is amazing is the amount of second-by-second activity shown in the demo.  It helps to make a compelling case for the global mainstreaming of social networking.  Thanks for the post Greg Verdino

ON: My Facebook Disabled

Last night I was cleaning up my Facebook profile.  First I went through and cleaned up which groups I was subscribed to, then I added a few new friends who have begun following me via twitter.  While doing that I was catching up on my blog posts and toggling between tabs on my Firefox browser.  (I often toggle between Twitter, TypePad, Facebook and MySpace.) 

At about 10pm, I toggled back to my profile where I clicked to update my status and was kicked to the log in screen.  I attempted a log in and got this message.

So I read through the Help Center topics, then the Terms and Conditions - I could not seem to find what Facebook violation I committed to get my account deactivated without as much as an email or on screen warning. 

At 11:25 I sent [email protected] this note.

From: Joanna Pena-Bickley <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:25:07 -0500
To: <[email protected]>
Conversation: My Account
Subject: My Account

Facebook Help Center,
My account was disabled and I am not sure why.  My account email is jojobickley [at] mac.com

I have read through the Help Center questions and I cannot identify one reason that might apply to my participation on Facebook.  The last action that I completed was a search on friends that were on Facebook and I added new friends. 

Attached you will find the error message that I get when I attempt to log in to my facebook account.

How can I get it re-enabled?

Please feel free to call me with any questions at 646-436-8330 or email me at jojobickley [at] mac.com

Joanna
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Joanna Peña-Bickley

Email: [email protected]
Blog: http://joannapenabickley.typepad.com
IM: ChiefEmagination | Skype: ArtistaPena

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After a number or people attempted to email me through FB and noted that my profile was no longer available - they hit me on My twitter account with a few suggestions i.e. other email contacts at FB. 

The most suprising thing about this incident is that Facebook gave no warning and also has not given me a response to the four emails that I have sent to <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>.

Do you have suggetstions? Do you have a real person contact that can help me??? Is there an online way to get your account reactivated? If so I am all ears. Drop me a line at either http://twitter.com/jojobickley (@jojobickley)  or leave a comment here!

I am perplexed by the deactivation and now pissed off that Facebook has no way for you to get in touch with a real person.  Wasn't the point of an "always on" business to keep some sort of customer service module so you could resolve issues 24/7?

UPDATE - Saturday, November 28, 2008:
Here is an email that I got from Facebook

To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: My Account

Hi,

The Facebook Team has received your inquiry. We should get back to you soon. In the meantime, we encourage you to review our Terms of Use (http://www.facebook.com/terms.php) for more information.

Thanks for contacting Facebook,

The Facebook Team

Thanks to all of those tweets who have send me reccomendations!  Keep them coming to http://twitter.com/jojobickley (@jojobickley)  or leave a comment here!

• ***UPDATE - Thursday December 4, 2008: Day 7 and no word from Facebook.  Got a peronsal contact in their sales dept and have emailed them to seek out help.

ON: Nokia's N96 Bruce Lee Phone Edition

Ever play ping pong with your nunchucks?  Nokia China released this ad for the limited Bruce Lee edition of the new Nokia N96 phone. At the end of the add it will direct you to http://www.nokia-lee.com.cn  which is  impressive site with downloads for Bruce Lee addicts.

    

Second Edition: This is the second version of the promo video of the just released Nokia N96 Bruce Lee special Edition.

ON: My Tweet 16

I have been tweeting for a while!  As of this post I have 3,080 tweets under my belt.  So when I was invited to play with My Tweet 16 it was totally cool to see what I was doing when I published my first sixteen tweets. 

You can do this for any user as long as they haven’t issued more than 3200 tweets.  I love that my Tweets turned up instantly.  My little snapshot in history shows I had just returned from a Cancun and bought my Apple TV.

Check it out at http://www.mytweet16.com

ON: Joost's Broken App

Via TechCrunch

Joost launched their iPhone application on the App Store this evening, giving users access to 46,000 Joost videos, including major television shows and films.

The iPhone has a built in YouTube application already, giving them a serious head start when it comes to video on the iPhone. But arch-rival Hulu doesn’t yet - giving Joost a little room to maneuver for now.

the application just doesn’t work yet. I tried to play multiple videos, including the full length version of Men In Black, but an error message reads “The connection to the server was lost. This may be because of poor network quality. Please try again later.” Meanwhile, YouTube videos are playing promptly.

Read more at TechCrunch

ON: Toshiba's Scratch Pad

Toshiba has launched a new website to encourage the exploration of Toshiba’s vast product offerings. Users navigate the ‘What Next’ website by scribbling zig zags, lines, swirls and infinity signs that manipulate the small creatures on the site.

Visit www.leading-innovation.com to play

ON: Being Rick Rolled

I would be the first to say that I was pretty sure I could see a Rick Roll coming a mile away.  Wednesday night as I was getting ready for the Tina Turner concert I was startled by what I was sure was a joke.  It was direct spot for Barry Manilow's latest album.  In the spot Barry Rick Rolls everyone.  Yes - even Barry Manilow is using the web to market this very "special" CD.  This Christmas you too can own Barry's doing the 80's - which is just wrong!  No one else needs to do the eighties accept the people who made the eighties.

Did Barry really mean to get on the Rick Rolling bandwagon?

This morning, while preparing my turkey my eye was caught by the Rick Roll to end all Rick Rolls. As the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends float rolled on through Herald Square, a black haired, Rick Astley appeared and Rick Rolled the entire nation with his revived web hit Never Gonna Give You Up.


I think this pretty much explains the latest Rick Roll phenom.

UPDATE! - Friday November 28th:
Search the "Rick Roll" in You tube and Barry Manilow's ads pop up.

ON: Rovio

The launch of Rovio is immanent.  Rovio is a WiFi-enabled robotic webcam from WowWee. You can drive this little omni-directional 3-wheeled robot using an intuitive interface in your web browser.  Through mid-December you can book a fun 5-minute test drive around a specially constructed loft. Give it a try at Rovio's site.