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Welcome to Facebook employee blogs The entries below are written by Facebook employees. Employees express personal opinions that do not necessarily reflect opinions of Facebook, Inc. To comment or get more details on any of the postings, follow the link to an employee blog. At TED This ...
Commenting with Facebook Connect
Commenting with Facebook Connect
developers.facebook.com — Since Facebook Connect launched, we've seen over 6,000 developers make their sites more social usin...... (more) Commenting with Facebook Connect
The Facebook Blog
blog.facebook.com — A couple of weeks ago, we revised our terms of use hoping to clarify some parts for... our users. Over the past couple of days, we received a lot of questions and comments about the changes and what they mean for people and their information. Based on ... (more) The Facebook Blog
Facebook has removed 5,500 sex offenders since May
news.yahoo.com — RALEIGH, N.C. Facebook has removed more than 5,500 convicted sex offenders from its social networking Web site... since May, Connecticut 's attorney general said Thursday. Richard Blumenthal said the world's largest social networking site , which claims ... (more) Facebook has removed 5,500 sex offenders since May
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Amid PR follies, Facebook attempts to humanize
VentureBeat — ... is an area of the site that highlights employees’ personal thoughts and opinions by aggregating their personal blog posts in one place. The area has three categories for different types of posts: “Engineering,” “ ...

Facebook Doles Out Candy to Developers and Research Junkies
All Facebook — ... Lindsay’s post is from October but it just became publicized through Facebook’s new Facebook People subsite which displays public messages from employees at Facebook. In his article, Roddy illustrates how large of a project he has been tackling, “We developed a corpus of 5000 tagged posts labeled positive, negative or neutral about certain objects. We then started generating synonyms for sentiment words by comparing every word to every other word in a single day of data, ranking by similarity of their immediately neighboring words.” ...

Facebook Makes Staying Updated Easier
WebProNews Feed — ... it," explains Alex Moskalyuk on the Facebook Blog . "Facebook is focused on helping people share and connect, and in our work, we encounter some pretty big questions and unsolved problems. Often our work follows us home. With so many interesting challenges and perspectives, we want to surface all the thoughts, energy and passion of the people at Facebook." People.Facebook.com The page can be found at people.facebook.com , and consists of three channels: 1. Engineering 2. Platform 3. Life More channels will make their way to the ...

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