We knew the American Apparel founder wants us to think he enjoys fucking his employees and now we know his appetite extends to his competitors.

Facebook is doing its damnedest to acquire a kind of social lock-in with both its users and 3rd party publishers. At the recent Facebook developer conference called F8 they announced a new set of tools for developers that let other website tie into the Facebook network via a new like button, comments system and fan page widget among other things.

With more than 400 million users, Facebook offers web publishers a very tempting offering. Visitors to their sites can promote content to their social graph with one-click. This is increasingly important as the web continuously becomes more fragmented and younger people opt to use social networks in the way people have traditionally use email.

This coke spot deserves all the attention its getting lately. Watch it again!

Check out this great spot for DietHard featuring comedian/musician Reggie Watts.

Seven cute spots from Colle+McVoy featuring hamsters and super corny jokes. The set are very nice, maybe inspired by The Fantastic Mr. Fox?

Adotas breaks down the search space for you. Basically Microsoft’s new Bing search is growing by leaps and bounds. Google continues to grow but at a decelerating rate. As for Yahoo, it’s still bad news, search volume is down 2% from 2008.

This Meetup.com pictures a cat owner with a problem. Unfortunately I totally identify with him.

Ag Age is reporting that Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows a loss of 26,300 jobs from Decemeber 2007 to December 2009.

Almost as sobering, I noticed the first three comments look like link spam. Out of work agency people trying to make a buck perhaps?