Alessandro writes -
Facebook Lamp is an RGB led lamp that advise you if you have notifications on facebook changing its color or fading from one to others , the lamp in connected to my laptop via USB and is controlled by a custom software, written by me, able to connect to the web and retrive information from your facebook pages.
What would be useful is a good overview of the PC-based software. The article only mentions that he uses labview, which is some form of embeded RAD tool. This is the sort of project with endless possibilities for makers, but the PC software is the roadblock.