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This Weekend Facebook announced a new Facebook Felloship Program for 2010-2011. The program supports full-time Ph.D. students working on topical areas like Internet Economics, Cloud Computing, Social Computing, Data Mining and Machine Learning, Systems or Information Retrieval. Students must be enrolled in e.g. Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, System Architecture and recommended by a faculty member. Deadline is Friday  February 15, 2010. Further information, the application checklist and instructions can be found here. It’ll be a tough competition. Good luck everybody!

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Today the number of social networks, business networks, social bookmarking services, news aggregation and microblogging tools, photo and video sharing platforms, a.o. is growing and online communication, collaboration and multimedia has an important influence on people’s social and working life.
The videos below show how many people played Farmville, used Facebook or are fans of Nutella by December 2009 and that social media is not just fad.

Four months after Facebook started local translations in over 60 languages, the German version still shows many inconsistencies. According to Mark Zuckerberg’s presentation in Berlin this Monday, the social utility has more than 100 million users worldwide, but just 1,2% German users. Facebook’s offline campaign “Deutschland macht blau” is about to bring a change here and tries to encourage German users to share and communicate online on Facebook. But the success of the campaign is in question as long as there are obvious language problems with the German version.