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12 Nov 08

Generatus: A Social Networking Status Generator for Facebook, Twitter, etc

Never fear! Your days of boring status updates are over! Simply type your name, indicate whether you are a boy or a girl, then hit Generate.

You will be served up a brand new, sparkly status all ready to be copied and pasted into Facebook, Twitter or whi

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03 Nov 08

Facebook May Be Growing Too Fast. And Hitting The Capital Markets Again.

The company is likely spending well over a $1 million per month on electricity alone, say experts we’ve spoken with. Bandwidth is likely another $500,000 or more per month on top of that. The company has earmarked $100 million to buy 50,000 servers this y

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21 Oct 08

The Facebook App Platform is Dead

Lookery’s own statistics from Quantcast suggest that their publisher traffic has been almost halved since the new site design was released.

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08 Sep 08

Researchers Dupe 1,000 Facebook Users Into Downloading Malicious App

The researchers didn’t advertise or promote the app, but 1,000 people still gave it a whirl, and it’s still up on Facebook.

www.alleyinsider.com/...into-downloading-malicious-app - Preview

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07 Sep 08

I’m So Totally, Digitally Close to You - Clive Thompson - NYTimes.com

Facebook users didn’t think they wanted constant, up-to-the-minute updates on what other people are doing. Yet when they experienced this sort of omnipresent knowledge, they found it intriguing and addictive. Why?

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18 Aug 08

BuddyPress » A Wordpress MU Based Social Network Platform

BuddyPress is a set of WordPress MU specific plugins, each plugin adding a distinct new feature. BuddyPress contains all the features you’d expect from WordPress but aims to let members socially interact

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BuddyPress, an open source competitor to FaceBook

BuddyPress is a social network in a box - a FaceBook style network you will be able to install into WordPress MU, the multiple user iteration of WordPress.

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08 Aug 08

Create a Facebook Desktop Script Using Ruby in 3 Easy Steps

# Install the Facebooker gem
# Log on to Facebook and setup your new application
# Create your Ruby script (aka Facebook desktop app)
# Run your Ruby script (Paste the URL into your web browser and login, hit return to continue (in your shell)).

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05 Aug 08

RentMineOnline Connects Landlords and Renters Through Facebook

RentMineOnline enables users to earn cash when someone moves into a property they recommended.

mashable.com/...rentmineonline - Preview

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04 Aug 08

Is Facebook Letting Employees Cash Out?

workers will be able to sell up to 20% of their vested equity, at a $4 billion valuation this fall.

www.alleyinsider.com/...ok-letting-employees-cash-out- - Preview

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30 Jul 08

Teen social network myYearbook is growing fast and it just raised $13M

Teen social network myYearbook is growing fast and it just raised $13M, but is it more than a teen site?

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24 Jul 08

What ‘Facebook Connect’ Means for Corporate Websites

Facebook Connect allows users to authenticate using their Facebook ID
Similair to OpenId

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Facebook Connect for iPhone Will Links Apps to Your Facebook Account

iPhone app developers will be able to integrate apps with Facebook Connect—in other words, apps will be able to link up to and share data with your Facebook account,

gizmodo.com/...-apps-to-your-facebook-account - Preview

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22 Jul 08

1 Billion Page Per Month Facebook RoR App | High Scalability

LinkedIn's Bumper Sticker app: one billion page per month Facebook Ruby on Rails application.

highscalability.com/on-page-month-facebook-ror-app - Preview

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Thrift vs. Protocol Buffers

Overall, I think Thrift wins on features and Protocol Buffers win on
documentation. Implementation-wise, they’re quite similar.

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19 Jul 08

Facebook Releases iPhone App v1.1, Makes 1.0 Seem Quaint

The best way to describe the 1.1 update is that it is pretty much everything what Facebook amounts to without third-party applications.

mashable.com/...facebook-iphone-2 - Preview

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09 Jul 08

How Facebook Works

the company has discovered that interrupts on the servers' Ethernet controllers are a bottleneck. So Facebook rewrote the controllers' drivers to scale on multicore systems. Facebook is also experimenting with solid-state drives.

www.technologyreview.com/...20921 - Preview

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30 Jun 08

Facebook's Thrift Accepted into Apache Incubator

The Thrift framework enables applications and components to speak with each other no matter what language they are in. Currently Thrift supports C++, Java, Python, Ruby and PHP but may potentially expand to other languages as well.

www.allfacebook.com/...accepted-into-apache-incubator - Preview

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19 Jun 08

Featured Download: Facebook Chat Plug-in Integrates Facebook with Pidgin

The Facebook Chat for Pidgin plug-in connects the popular open-source chat application Pidgin with the new Facebook Chat instant messaging service.

lifehacker.com/...ntegrates-facebook-with-pidgin - Preview

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