• We have over 6000 of the best facebook status updates on the web.
• The top status update of all time now has over 1,500 votes.
• We now have over 1250 fans on our Status King page.
• Out of 80 reviews we have 4.7 out of 5 stars. That is pretty dang good.

It took a long time to get to this point (we started back in January), but I think the Status King content is excellent and it is only going to get better as we move forward. We have been mentioned in the USAToday and on Mashable (one of the top 10 blogs in the world). Recently I talked to a guy who created one of the top 10 apps on facebook. I believe Status King is going to be a top Facebook app.

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This week, here at FamilyLink, we released Dadtastic.net. Dadtastic does two things:

1 Make clever Father’s Day t-shirts for Dad.

Here is my favorite t-shirt image. I bought this on for my dad last week.

2 Dadtastic.net gives you a simple way to celebrate Father’s Day on Facebook.

To celebrate Father’s Day simply click “Share on Facebook” and it will automatically upload the image to your facebook.

This being my first project as a Social Marketing Manager at FamilyLink, I am hoping hoping hoping that it goes very viral before Father’s Day.

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Before Christmas my family was discussing facebook. My oldest brother, Theron, had the idea of putting funny facebook statuses on T-shirts.  My younger brother Jordan (17 years old)  decided he would want a T-shirt that says: “Jordan is available” and then have the little facebook box “What are you doing right now?” on it. The ideas bounced off each other and withing a day or two we had a business plan. The result is Status King. 

It has been up and running for just over a week and we already have over 700 active Status King users, 50 five star reviews, and over 130 facebook Status King fans. 

Pretty soon we will have the best collection of funniest facebook status updates on the Internet. Take a look at the Top 25 facebook status updates of all time. 

We have also created the URL http://StatusKing.net so make sharing a little more easy.

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I always thought that President Abraham Lincoln was the first President to call it a holiday. False.

I thought it was about eating loads food. False.

President George Washington was the first President to ask the nation to celebrate it. It is about being thankful for the Constitution we have. And it was a day of fasting and prayer in thanks to God for establishing our country.

Have a read about the TRUE meaning of Thanksgiving in Benton's blog.

My only question is: Why did I not know this before?

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Proposition 8 also passed. This was an enormous relief for me.  An answer to prayer and a wonderful win to protect the family and hold off a collision course between gay rights and religious freedom.
 
But my emotions were bittersweet. Obama's rhetoric is downright socialist and scary and the gay rights activists have already filed suit against Prop 8. I was listening to Glenn Beck just during the election. A young man called in and asked, "What do I do now?" Glenn gave some great advice: "Get a copy of and study the constitution. Learn everything about it. Read the Federlist Papers. Learn what Founders really taught."

If you are a Mormon then you might have already heard Elder Packer's talk last month on the Constitution called "The Test". Here he talks about a celebration the Saints held in honor of the US (a country that had just chased them from their homes):

"Three things about that 1849 commemoration were both symbolic and
prophetic: first, that the young men carried the Constitution and the
Declaration of Independence; next, that each young woman carried the
Bible and the Book of Mormon; and finally, that the old men—the Silver
Greys—were honored in the parade.

"After the program they had a feast at makeshift tables. Several
hundred gold-rush travelers and 60 Indians were invited to join them.

"Then they went back to work."

Lets celebrate the peaceful elections this country just afforded us. Let's honor this historical moment in our history as we prepare for our first black President. Let the rising generation grasp to the Constitution and Declaration of Indepenence in hand with our holy writ, and let us turn to our wise "silver greys" for council. Now I got to get back to work. (:

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But even if Prop 8 pulls out in a win, a sobering realization has set in on me, a time of great religious discrimination is not far from us. We have been framed as “Haters”, “Bigots”, and “Discriminators”.  If I was an outsider reading and watching their statements about the Yes on 8 campaign, I would wonder if Prop 8 was the re-institution of slavery. In contrast here are the actual words to be added to the constitution: “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.”

Google (who openly opposes 8 ) is in hot water for allowing Yes on 8 ads to display on sites that disagree with Prop 8.

I like TechCrunch, but this is just a tizzy-fit. What about freedom of speech? Who says marriage is a “fundamental right”? A few judges? Let the legal process take its path and let people hold their opinions. Influence will not come by banning those who are in favor of it. You are asking for the same thing you claim to be against, discrimination.

Even scarier is this ad showing “Mormon missionaries” invading a home to tear up a marriage certificate:

I take serious offense to this as I served a two year mission in Ireland, paying my own way just to answer a call from the Lord to serve His children. Everyone who knows Mormons knows this is plain false. This ad is just plain WRONG and segregating us because we put our money behind our opinions and beliefs.

What is the result of the unfair labeling and name calling? Homes have been vandalized, tens of thousands of Yes on 8 signs have been stolen and destroyed. People have been attacked in the streets (there have been a little both ways, but very little on the Yes on 8 side). And the Mormon church, whose members should be admired for coming out and standing for their standards even with their wallets in a time of recession and economic collapse, have been attacked with nothing less than hatred.

Actions speak louder than words and the only people I see inspiring words and actions of hate, discrimination, and bigotry is the No on 8 campaign.

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The new MyCanvas barrows a lot of UI ideas from MemoryPress, particularly the sliding panes on the right side (they are on the left in MyCanvas). Although MemoryPress is still a typesetting system for real books while MyCanvas is a glorified photobook.

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It made me laugh.

Another thing I noticed that I really like about their languages is that they don’t try and write all of their langauges in English. You can see that English is in English, Français is in French. It would make sense that if you are looking for Chinese it will be easier for you to find your language in Chinese.

One more thing, I think it is brilliant that facebook has an application that lets their users translate the site for them. Each phrase on the site is translated and then voted on by the users. Makes for much better translations.  I think we will use this idea on Pixlin one day.

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