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		<title>&#8220;Yo Zuck&#8221; Tumblr Gets Facebook&#8217;s Attention</title>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:06:45 -0400</pubDate>
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<p>How do you get Mark Zuckerberg's attention? Irish web designer <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/ys">Youssef Sarhan</a> did it by creating a new Tumblr called <em>Yo Zuck! Implement This</em> at <a href="http://yozuck.tumblr.com/">yozuck.tumblr.com</a>, a collection of his ideas for features and improvements for Facebook: video chat, group chat, a fix for broken video links, a site-wide online status indicator--all tricked out with animated .GIFs to show how such features would look.</p>
<p>Betabeat loved the Tumblr and so we tried to speak with Mr. Sarhan--but Facebook has already gotten to him.<!--more--></p>
<p>"Quite simply, Facebook have been in touch and I feel as a gesture of loyalty I would prefer to keep correspondence exclusive, at least for the moment," he said in an email.</p>
<p>Not bad for a days-old Tumblr.</p>
<p>Everyone who is a Facebook user (and that's everyone, come on) has thoughts on how Facebook should change. But Mr. Sarhan has been thinking about design and next-level Facebooking for a while. "It is estimated that there are currently two billion active internet users; of which over <a title="Data for 03/22/2011" href="http://www.kenburbary.com/2011/03/facebook-demographics-revisited-2011-statistics-2/">600 million</a> use the exact same design everyday," he wrote, referring to Facebook's mammoth userbase.</p>
<p>There are only nine suggestions total, and Mr. Sarhan also gets a little fuzzy on the details. "The internet could be so much more fun and so much more engaging if Facebook themselves developed and released a browser," he said in one video post titled "<a href="http://yozuck.tumblr.com/post/4823968059/the-facebook-browser">The Facebook Browser,</a>" his most ambitious suggestion. "So it would be a browser built from the ground up or whatever way they do it that has got deep access to everybody's social graph. I can only imagine how that would both improve the browsing experience of the internet and Facebook as well as vastly improving the potential for monetizing that information."</p>
<p>We're curious to hear what Zuck had to say, but Mr. Sarhan is discreet. "I'd prefer to hold out on any interviews for the moment. I hope that you understand and I'll be in touch soon," he said.</p>
<p>And now the irresponsible speculation--yo Zuck, you gonna give this kid a job?</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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<p>How do you get Mark Zuckerberg's attention? Irish web designer <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/ys">Youssef Sarhan</a> did it by creating a new Tumblr called <em>Yo Zuck! Implement This</em> at <a href="http://yozuck.tumblr.com/">yozuck.tumblr.com</a>, a collection of his ideas for features and improvements for Facebook: video chat, group chat, a fix for broken video links, a site-wide online status indicator--all tricked out with animated .GIFs to show how such features would look.</p>
<p>Betabeat loved the Tumblr and so we tried to speak with Mr. Sarhan--but Facebook has already gotten to him.<!--more--></p>
<p>"Quite simply, Facebook have been in touch and I feel as a gesture of loyalty I would prefer to keep correspondence exclusive, at least for the moment," he said in an email.</p>
<p>Not bad for a days-old Tumblr.</p>
<p>Everyone who is a Facebook user (and that's everyone, come on) has thoughts on how Facebook should change. But Mr. Sarhan has been thinking about design and next-level Facebooking for a while. "It is estimated that there are currently two billion active internet users; of which over <a title="Data for 03/22/2011" href="http://www.kenburbary.com/2011/03/facebook-demographics-revisited-2011-statistics-2/">600 million</a> use the exact same design everyday," he wrote, referring to Facebook's mammoth userbase.</p>
<p>There are only nine suggestions total, and Mr. Sarhan also gets a little fuzzy on the details. "The internet could be so much more fun and so much more engaging if Facebook themselves developed and released a browser," he said in one video post titled "<a href="http://yozuck.tumblr.com/post/4823968059/the-facebook-browser">The Facebook Browser,</a>" his most ambitious suggestion. "So it would be a browser built from the ground up or whatever way they do it that has got deep access to everybody's social graph. I can only imagine how that would both improve the browsing experience of the internet and Facebook as well as vastly improving the potential for monetizing that information."</p>
<p>We're curious to hear what Zuck had to say, but Mr. Sarhan is discreet. "I'd prefer to hold out on any interviews for the moment. I hope that you understand and I'll be in touch soon," he said.</p>
<p>And now the irresponsible speculation--yo Zuck, you gonna give this kid a job?</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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