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There’s a lot of useless information in Google around why the suggest to friends feature of Facebook Pages is not working.

The essence seems to be

• the feature is definitely broken, no one you suggest will receive emails
• it’s been broken for over 4 months now,  possibly 6
• Facebook doesn’t disable a broken feature, strange
• you can kind of get around it by going to your Facebook page, then at the bottom of the left hand column, click the Share link, and either post your page to your profile (some people will see it in their news feed) or email it directly up to max. 20 people
• why? apparently Facebook would rather users spend money on their ads to promote their pages

UPDATE: Here is a link from Dave Nattriss that explains what’s going on.  Basically a box is now sometimes available in the right hand column called the Page Suggestion Manager that let’s you see if someone’s recommended you any pages, and you can take action from there.  I was unable to see the box after a lot of browsing around, however if you use the Facebook search for the term “Page Suggestion Manager” the box appears in the RHS of the search results.

Your taste is why your own work disappoints you

Just in time for the Royal Wedding, check out our latest iPad app, Kings and Queens, currently featured by Apple as the iPad App of the Week.

The app features interactive timelines of the history of the British monarchy, family trees, maps and video commentary by David Starkey to guide you through the app.

Thanks to some newly discovered tracking data in iOS devices, we now have a great overview of all the places we visited on our recent India trip.

And a closeup of Mumbai

and for the hell of it, one of Barcelona, pretty graphics

Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off | Video on TED.com

I found it worth to watch the whole 30 mins of this video.  Great app and these guys really get the platform and its potential.  Bit of an impedance mismatch between 955 Dreams and Scoble, but even that’s funny to watch.

Video: How ‘gesture technology’ like Microsoft Kinect will change the way we live

Watch the full episode. See more Need To Know.

Recommended reading

• Portraits de criminels australiens dans les années 1920 | La boite verte – Some fascinating photos!
• A working life: The app developer | Money | The Guardian – A bit of background on how things are going over at Grapple

I love this article by Paul Buchheit who’s the creator of gmail.  It compares the parenting style of American and Chinese parents, and examines how this affects an individual’s ability to set goals, love what they do and attain a sense of satisfaction.

In my case my mother had strong hippie values quite typical of the 60s which basically translated into “my kid can do whatever he wants, I want him to be free to discover his interests for himself” and of course this was a reaction to the parenting style she received in the 50s which was more like “you must do things our way, we will dictate what you do in life”.

Read the article for some of the subtleties that arise from the two approaches.