This week’s Special Guest Thinker on iThink is Michael Pollan. Pollan, UC Berkeley journalism professor and contributor to the New York Times Magazine, is the author of “The Botany of Desire” and “The Omnivore’s Dilemma.” Join the conversations around the following two opinions, and you’ll be eligible to recieve one of two signed copies we are giving away of “In Defense of Food,” Pollan’s new book.

Don’t eat anything your grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.

Eating in the car is bad for your health.

View Michael’s FB profile here. Or go to his website for more info.

1. Make sure as many of your friends as possible have added the iThink application to their Facebook profile.

2. Write a really great, original, killer, possibly controversial but definitely unique opinion that everyone will find interesting to agree/disagree with. The most votes rises to the top!

3. Submit your opinion within a few hours of a new 24-hour cycle, which begins every day at 12 midnight GMT (7 pm EDT).

4. Use the iThink “share” link to share the opinion with all of your friends. Be sure to promise to vote on their opinions so their opinions can rise.

5. Watch as your awesome opinion gains momentum and starts to move ahead of the other not so hot opinions.

6. Message your friends again to make sure they have all voted. Offer to treat them to a beer if you get to the top!

7. Respond to any comments people make on the opinion’s wall to keep the conversation lively and interesting.

8. Make sure the iThink box is at the top of your Facebook profile page so that any friends or strangers who wander by will see your opinion and vote on it.

9. As the deadline approaches and you are neck and neck with the competition, invite more of your friends, your teachers, your family, even complete strangers to add the iThink app (if they haven’t already) and vote for your killer opinion.

10. If for some reason this strategy doesn’t work, there’s always tomorrow!

As iThink users on Facebook have already noticed, we’ve been closely listening to user feedback and working hard behind the scenes to bring you the newest version of iThink! We hope you like the changes and would love to hear what you think.

Here are just some of the improvements we made:
- We made it easier to browse categories by bringing category navigation to the right side in the form of a tag cloud. The relative size of the category also represents the popularity of that category.
- New notification area on top of the application where we be highlighting interesting opinions and topics.
- New iThink logo!

Stay tuned for even more over the next few weeks because we are going continue to improve the iThink experience on Facebook. Read the announcement here on Facebook.

iThink will be center stage on November 13, at an event called “How to Monetize Applications on Social Networking Platforms”.

Members of the Minekey Team will be presenting iThink to an audience of entrepreneurs, technologists and investors at the PlugandPlay Tech Center in Sunnyvale.

Other developers of social applications will also be presenting — as will be Ramu Yalamanchi, CEO of Hi5.

Please join us — it’s Free!

To Register, CLICK HERE.

For Directions, CLICK HERE.

We’ve just launched iThink on Facebook, a social App with which you can express and share your opinions with friends about anything — politics, dating, sports, entertainment, food and more.

See who agrees or disagrees with you, and comments on others’ opinions.

The App also lets you see which of your friends are most similar to you — based upon opinions that you share in common with them, or not.

Click here to start using iThink now.