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Jonathan Heiliger: A couple good reasons and not so good reasons. We’re a technology company and we like to write software. But really, these tools are integrated with the Facebook interface, so it makes it that much easier for employees to use. One thing I’ve seen at a lot of other companies is they have a pea soup style—lots of tools and Web forms and e-mail in-boxes. It’s difficult for an employee to know, if they have an HR question, do I e-mail or walk over? Do I have to fill out a comment form? For us, it’s all Facebook. Employees use Facebook every day. They don’t have to launch a browser window to go to different URLs to communicate.

Jonathan Heiliger: We’re constantly looking at the lines. It’s not static at Facebook. Most IT organizations love to control change. I threw that out when I came. We’re not going to try to control change, but speed it up. We trained people to be pushers. We do a major release once a week and minor releases every few days. Recently, we did some underlying changes— to photo gallery layout, for example, or starting using more Ajax calls on the site so the page refreshes are more seamless.

Two of the biggest names in tech are teaming up on a cloud computing project that they plan to announce at a special event next week.

Facebook amasses billions of photos, friend connections, and status updates and stores them up in "the cloud," and Dell is working on being one of the main providers of the infrastructure--servers--that makes the cloud possible.

Each service adds a few more data points about you inside the Facebook brain, which is quite aware of your activities inside the Facebook ecosystem. The brain can then crunch all that information and build a fairly accurate image of who you are, what you like and what might interest you. With all that information at its disposal, Facebook can build a fairly large cash register.

Since the launch of the campaign and due to the power of the Facebook group, Simon was invited by Salvatore Gabola, Coca-Cola’s Global Head of Stakeholder Relations, to a meeting to discuss the idea further at Coca-Cola’s European HQ in Brussels. The campaign’s Facebook group has reached over 3,400 members since its inception on 18 May 2008. It was nominated for the NewStatesman’s New Media Award in June and showcased at London’s 2gether08 festival on 3 July.

Most recently, the campaign was featured on BBC Radio 4’s iPM programme in May and July, and on the BBC World Service on 13 July. Simon explains; “Before the Facebook group I was getting nowhere at all. The group has changed everything and is the reason we’ve made such rapid progress …Continuing support for the idea is vital if we are to turn this idea into a reality and actually save some lives.”

Facebook has hired Mozilla technology veteran Mike Schroepfer as a director of engineering, as part of the social network's recent executive shuffle.

　ミクシィは7月28日、ソーシャルネットワーキングサービス（SNS）「mixi」で、芸能人がファンとの交流を促進するための「公認アカウント」を開始した。

To Microsoft, Facebook is a quick way to expand the audience for its search engine. More than 29 million people actively use Facebook in the United States. They will soon see prominent displays of Microsoft’s Live Search box on their friends’ and their own Facebook pages.

The deal fills a significant gap in Facebook’s service. When people are using the social network and have questions, they have to leave Facebook to go to a search engine. With the new search toolbar on the page, users can stay on Facebook while making their queries.

Among the sites to have signed up to Facebook Connect are Hulu.com, the video
streaming site which is a joint venture between NBC Universal and News Corp,
parent company of Times Online, the Disney-ABC Television Group, CBS.com,
and Twitter, the micro-blogging site.

Satya Nadella, Microsoft's senior vice president in its
search and advertising group, said the expanded Facebook deal
would be implemented in the next few months and "carry both our
Web results, as well as our page search advertising."