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Bringing Macs into business: Real-life IT stories | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2009-01-06 | By Leon Erlanger
"Facebook is even more of a mixed Mac and Windows corporate environment than Citrix. IT director Kunal Malik estimates the company is 60 percent Mac and 40 percent Windows. "We found early on that Macs were better at multitasking and a much better environment for coding than Windows," he says."
Could Facebook Partner With iTunes?
"At Web 2.0 Summit yesterday, John Battelle questioned Chris DeWolfe of MySpace about what he’d do if he woke up one morning and found out that Facebook had launched a service with iTunes. While Chris didn’t speculate as to what actions he would take it was clearly not a bad idea. So what is holding Facebook back?"
Facebook users donate status to remind people to vote - Network World
"A Facebook application is letting users remind people to vote for their candidate of choice in the U.S. presidential election on Tuesday by "donating" their Facebook status. As part of the Causes Election Rally application on the social-networking site, users can pick to which candidate -- either Sen. Barack Obama or Sen. John McCain -- they would like to donate their status on Facebook. They also can donate their status simply to get out the vote."
A look at Obama’s IT strategy: The Facebook connection and the scale challenge | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
"Barack Obama has sealed the Democratic party nomination with the help of social networking, a Facebook staffer and an off-the-shelf IT strategy."
Facebook opens part of platform to fend off Google's OpenSocial
"Facebook announced Monday that it is releasing a "significant" part of its platform as open-source code. The open code includes much of the social network's platform, along with many of its most used methods and tags."
Facebook To Open Source Facebook Platform
"Sometime soon, perhaps this week, Facebook will turn the year-old Facebook Platform into an open source project, multiple sources have told us. The immediate effect will be to allow any social network to become Facebook Platform compatible - meaning application developers can easily take their Facebook applications and have them run on those social networks, too."
Facebook to open the gates with 'Facebook Connect' | The Social - CNET News.com
"Social network Facebook announced Friday the debut of Facebook Connect, a new technology for members to connect their profile data and authentication credentials to external Web sites. It makes the company the latest major Web site to embrace the concept of data portability."
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