This is the A2SM Link Post for June 1st through June 2nd. To see more of the bookmarks we’ve found, check out our Delicious Feed.

• Diaspora’s Final Tally: $200,000 From Nearly 6,500 Backers – When Diaspora set out to raise money to build an open Facebook alternative site, they had a pretty modest goal: $10,000. Of course, they were raising the funds through a less than traditional means — using Kickstarter, an online fundraising site. Still, they shot past that goal in 12 days. And within 20 days, they had raised over $100,000. Yesterday, the fundraising closed, the final tally: just over $200,000.
• New Toshiba Screen Lets You Bend to Zoom in Google Earth [VIDEO] – Toshiba is showing off a novel user input case for its flexible LCD screen: you can physically bend the screen to zoom in or out in Google Earth. Shown off at the Society for Information Display 2010 Conference, the bend sensor in the display changes resistance values as the screen is flexed.
• AP Stylebook Adds 42 New Guidelines for Social Media – The AP Stylebook has released its new social media guidelines, including the official change from “Web site” to “website” (a move first reported back in April) and 41 other definitions, use cases and rules that journalists should follow.
• Bing Health Maps Highlight the Healthiest Places to Live – Whether you're cruising for data about the new locale your company is transferring you to or you're a sucker for a good information mashup, Bing Health Maps overlays dozens of health indicators over U.S. states.
• Google Search Homepage Gets User-Customizable Backgrounds – It's a simple enough feature that we've heard rumors of here and there: Just go to Google.com, move your mouse to the bottom left of the screen and click Change background image, and pick any image from Google's Public gallery, your Picasa web album photos, or upload any image from your desktop.
• The FriendFeedization Of Facebook Continues: Bret Taylor Promoted To CTO – Facebook has a new chief technology officer, Bret Taylor. The FriendFeed co-founder and initial product manager of Google Maps came to Facebook with the $50 million acquisition of FriendFeed last year. He took on the role of director of platform at Facebook, and led the recent rollout of Facebook’s Open Graph and Open Graph API, which attempts to make social connections on the Web as important as hyperlinks. He played a key role in making the Facebook platform much simpler to build on.
• Gregarious: Facebook privacy controversy does nothing to damage its reputation – Google "Facebook privacy" today and you would think that recent allegations about Facebook's privacy breaches could potentially threaten its very existence. "Could privacy be Facebook's Waterloo," asks BusinessWeek. "Has Facebook Gone Rogue?" is the title of a NPR segment on All Things Considered.
• WordPress.com Adds Its Own "Like" and Reblogging Features – WordPress.com’s millions of blogs are getting social with two new features: quick reblogging and the ability to “like” posts.
• Oil Spill Firefox Plugin Blacks Out BP Across the Web – Creative agency Jess3 has developed a Firefox plugin that aims to black out all mentions of BP (British Petroleum) across the web. As one popular tweet espouses, “Want BP to [blank] up your browser like they’ve [blank] up the Gulf? Install the Oil Spill Firefox plugin from @jess3.”
• 30,000 quit Facebook in protest – Yahoo! Canada News – A group protesting Facebook's privacy policies said Monday more than 30,000 people had heeded its call to quit the social networking giant.