After eight years of charging users for messaging one another Friends Reunited has decided to go free – pretty major news I’d say. I’m wondering what fantastic business model they have up their sleeve as overnight revenues will be down by 40%.

Given that Friends is not Facebook, Bebo, MySpace or LinkedIn I think their success will be down to defining themselves as a distinct entity. And given that they’re owned by ITV, building media around your salad days would seem like a natural progression – I’m thinking tailored TV channels (class of ’85), lo-fi reunion shows, essentially arrogating media around key points in peoples lives.

Stay tuned.

I’ve spent the last couple of weeks reading Colin Moock’s latest 900 page epic – Essential ActionScript 3.0 so it was great to stumble upon Wonderfl. The concept behind the site of sharing and developing code online is genius.

Compared with 99% of tutorial sites (this included) the Wonderfl approach is the way forward and it’s certainly an idea that can be applied to many community based web applications.

Truly Wonderfl.