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Facebook: Invite All Friends Code

Monday, March 29th, 2010

Ok, if you’ve spent any time inviting friends on Facebook to become a fan of something, you know it can take forever.  Here’s some quick instructions on how to invite all your friends instantly.

  1. Click “Suggest Friends” under the profile image.
  2. If you’re using Firefox, Chrome, or Safari as your browser, copy this code:
    • javascript:elms=document.getElementById(‘friends’).getElementsByTagName(‘li’);for(var fid in elms){if(typeof elms[fid] === ‘object’){fs.click(elms[fid]);}}
  3. Paste it into your browser’s address bar and hit enter on your keyboard.

If you’re using IE, you still have to click all your friends manually.

That’s it.  Hope this helps.

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Spend More Time With Your Family (and have a job)

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

Something I experienced over a 3 second period on my walk into the office building this morning inspired me to write this.

It was a deep inhale of brisk, downtown Grand Rapids air.  I actually had to take a double sniff.  The first inhale caught my attention, but it was that second deep, lung filling gulp of air that whisked my mind away to the warm breeze of Cancun, Mexico.

It was that smell.  A magical mixture of clean air and something on the grill that did it.  I was no longer walking down the sidewalk of Ottawa Avenue, I was relaxing pool side at the Royal Caribbean Resort with my wife, being served a mixed drink as the sun beat down on me (my mind works very fast).

Ahh, what a feeling.

The point?  Let me get to it…

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Do friends really influence purchases in social networks? The answer is…

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

Harvard Business School recently published a working paper titled Do Friends Influence Purchases in a Social Network.

And I read it, of course.  So I’ll save you some time and give you a simple overview on what they learned, and what I learned from them.

  • First, I had to get back to my Trigonometry and Calculus classes to get my head around all the equations they have in the document to define their findings.  Very interesting.  Very amazing.  Very intelligent.  And I am not pretending to really understand what all of it was.  Ha.
  • Second, the paper is a working paper, so a bit of duplicate content to get through.  Unless they were just trying to really drive the point home.  :)
  • Third, I found it odd that a paper from 2009 would use data mined in 2004.  Sure seems like behaviors could change over this 4+ year span.

Ok, so this is what I gained from it:
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