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Yes, the business card. I am trying to create the perfect business card. Sadly, I only pretend to be a graphic designer (shh, don’t tell anyone), so I can’t just design awesome cards and be happy with them. To me, its not just about what is ON the card, but also what the card itself is made out of.

Steve Wozniak has metal business cards, but I think they are very lame. I personally print my own cards on a standard Avery stock (i know, also lame), but I round 1 corner (so, lame, but lame - 1). I also now have a few sets of Moo Mini Cards, which are pretty cool. They are printed on a thick stock, they are half the height of a standard business card, and a full color (side 1), text (side 2). $20 gets you 100, not bad, but not super-awesome-deal either.

An interesting post over at creativebits.org, which was dugg a while ago (which is how I found it), shows some really nice cards. I am into the more simplistic ones.

Your business card is often the first impression you leave with a prospective client. They may not remember their initial meeting with you, but they will have something visual to remember you by. If your card is interesting, or creative, or can somehow convey the ‘essence’ of YOU/Your product/Your business, then you are likely to either get a call from the person you gave your card to, or from a person that someone passed your card on to!

Check out your local Staples for non-perferated business card stock, moo.com for an interesting twist on business cards, orange32.com for some high-end cards, and the ever-so-awesome Young Go Getter for a chance to WIN 5,000 of those high-end Orange32 cards!

Welll, it appears that one month after Facebook asked me, and others, to remove my little cURL ‘hack’ for updating your Facebook Status, Facebook has finally implemented a users.setStatus() method in their API.

I originally posted my code and the ideas surrounding its creation and use on April 20, 2007. Five months later, Facebook decided to lay the hammer down, after many people had already implemented, ported, optimized, and whored my code. Now, one month after that, Facebook has an official API method for updating your own status.

Was this a move to open their platform more and to silence those who believe Facebook’s f8 is more of a ‘closed’ platform when compared to other service providers with APIs, a move to implement something that they obviously forgot about so they would look like less of a loser, or an honest move towards helping the federated status initiative? Either way, I am glad that the API method now exists.

And, as noted by Daniele Muscetta (a new friend of mine, and Facebook F8 Developer), it has already been picked up and implemented in a project that echoes that of my original vision of Twitter->Facebook over at TwitterSweet.

So, good job Facebook… kind of.