DISQUS

(I feel a bit awkward using a screen name to comment, but I have reasons for that. :)

Many good thoughts have been posted by you and others which I won't rehash. But one part stuck out to me: "Because it’s so easy to leave comments on FF, everyone starts running theirs mouths at a rapid pace without thinking...."

I keep finding various corners of the Web trending towards dynamic, real-time, short attention-span, less thought, more updates, etc. And I keep getting the feeling that one of the "next big things" on the Web will somehow push towards more static (as opposed to dynamic), less real-time, summarization, concision, lower amounts of content but higher quality, etc. People keep talking about reducing the noise by filtering instead of simply producing less noise.

A tangent from your main point, to be sure, but thought it was worth noting.

Oddly enough, Facebook Chat was working fine on an Opera 9.5 nightly all morning... but just a few minutes ago I instead got a message saying my browser wasn't supported. After setting Opera to "Mask as Firefox" on facebook.com, it seems to work fine once more.

Not sure about Opera 9.27, but 9.5 certainly seems to have good enough JavaScript support to handle this... I just wish more developers would realize how much Opera really can do.

Following up on Teresa's comment, this raises huge privacy/security issues with me. I think people are already being too free about giving applications access to their Facebook information... now handing over login details for your Gmail account to an unfamiliar developer? Yikes.

My top pick - a simple app that lets people ask to meet for coffee (or whatever): http://apps.facebook.com/coffeelink/