When we last heard about Jimmy Lemke the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee senior was in deep trouble for trying to plan a block party on Facebook. More than 5,000 people signed up to attend Jimmy’s big bash last weekend and the huge guest list caused local cops and university officials to crack down on the party. Jimmy was told to cancel the fiesta and warned that he would face serious consequences if anyone showed up ready to rock out. I checked in with Jimmy to see if he survived his social networking ordeal.

I got in touch with Jimmy through, what else, a message on Facebook to see how things went last. Jimmy told me that there were “no problems” and that “everything worked out well.” It looks like Jimmy learned from his bad Facebook experience, because he didn’t respond when I sent him a second message asking for more info about what went down. Perhaps Jimmy Lemke’s wisely decided to stay away from Facebook for awhile.

A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student named Jimmy Lemke tried to plan a block party on Facebook and now he’s in hot water with school officials, his neighbors, and the local SWAT team.

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Designer Marc Owens came up with a machine that prints out little sheets of paper with a date-stamp and time-stamp. Write in your own message, slap it on a street sign and boom: instant tweet. It’s like Twitter for people without friends. Something like that.

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One of the things that really sucks about Facebook is the limit on the number of “friends” users are allowed to have. Facebook limits individual users to 5,000 friends, which is very difficult for me since I’m so incredibly popular. That’s why I was so surprised this weekend when I checked out the profile of Nicole Richie’s ex Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein and saw him listed as having 5,001 friends. DJ AM and I became close personal friends because of our shared love of hip hop and having sex with hot Hollywood starlets.

DJ AM’s extra friend was probably a glitch since on Friday he wrote this message on his wall: “I CANT ADD ANYMORE FRIENDS :(” Today, he’s back down to 5,000 friends. On the other hand, perhaps this is a case of a celebrity receiving unfair VIP treatment from Facebook staff. If Facebook is letting people have extra friends they better get in touch with me because I need more space for all of my other famous buddies.

Yesterday, Facebook users were greeted with an ominous warning that “new Facebook will soon be the only Facebook.” Unlike Vince, I think the new design is a hot mess and it seems like many people agree with me.

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I’m sure hitchhiking is just as cool as everyone says it is. Between the days spent searching for a ride, intervals of crank and black tar heroin and the constant risk of getting murdered, I don’t see why more of today’s youth are hitchhiking. Luckily, some ingenious bastard thought of iHitch, which is a social networking site for hitchhikers.

No, instead of easily installing one of the thousands of similar Facebook applications, you now need to sign up for a site that essentially condones murder. I kid, I kid. It’s more like a carpooling type site, except for one-off trips. You can even access it with your cellphone. Just remember that this is all the idea of one Phil Hart. He still has to create the site at this point.

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Check out the AMD Project going down at The Last HOPE this weekend. I’d type up an original piece but the official website does it so, so well:

This weekend, the Attendee Meta-Data (AMD) project will introduce a new location-aware social networking system to track and bring together hackers based on a huge array of matching interests. Conference goers will be given unprecedented ability to connect with new people, find the talks they’re most interested in attending, see what’s happening and where in real time, and experience and talk about the way RFID technology is changing the world.

Attendees receive RFID badges that uniquely identify and track them across the conference space. Location information is incredibly accurate—visitors’ exact locations and movements are monitored in real time, and used to drive revolutionary social networking features which completely change the conference experience.

The AMD social networking site lets visitors “tag” themselves based on a diverse set of interests. Old-school hackers, network security experts, cryptographers, political activists, law geeks, lockpickers, reverse engineers, bloggers, privacy advocates, and far more—visitors can label themselves with multiple interests, to become discoverable by fellow visitors from around the world with similar interests, in the same room or across the building. Attendees can then use email or text messages to “ping” the people they discover on the site—new contacts and old friends alike.

Essentially, think Facebook for hackers and attendees with tagging and geo-location via RFID. More to come.

Like many of you, I fall victim to my Grandmother’s constant request for tech support for her 10-year-old computer. There are times where I cry, pull my hair out and I curse the person who told her to buy a computer. But, I digress, there is hope and it comes in the form of Jive.

Jive is a computer/social-networking concept for the elderly/retarded/disabled. When sold to the consumer, ISP information is automatically added at the store so that a true plug-and-play experience is created. Interaction occurs via a “Friend Pass” that resembles a picture key chain. Each Friend Pass is placed in a reader and the preloaded information is brought up. This eliminates the need for a mouse, helping maintain simplicity all around.

What do you think? Would you get one to get your grandparents off your back?

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