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facebook.com - 12/5/2008

Facebook Security

— facebook.com — Postcard Spam If a friend sends you a message or posts on your Wall with a link to a postcard for you to open, don't click on it. Chances are it's a virus that may cause your Facebook account to become compromised. If you do click on one of these ... (more) Facebook Security

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blog.facebook.com - 12/4/2008

Facebook Across the Web

— blog.facebook.com — Over the summer we announced an extension of Facebook Platform called Facebook Connect. Facebook Connect makes it easier for you to take your online identity with you all over the Web, share what you do online with your friends and stay updated on ... (more) Facebook Across the Web

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valleywag.com - 12/5/2008

Facebook cancels employee stock sale [Meltdowns]

— valleywag.com — So much for Silicon Valley's latest get-rich-quick scheme. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has cancelled a plan to let employees cash out their shares early. In August, before the markets started to melt down and with Facebook worth $15 billion on ... (more) Facebook cancels employee stock sale [Meltdowns]

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Facebook to Google: my Connect is bigger than yours
VentureBeat — Facebook and Google have both opened services to the public today that intend to let you easily access any web site using versions of your pre-existing online identity. They both intend to help you find friends on other web sites to interact with, thereby making social interaction much simpler potentially anywhere on the web. Facebook’s service, Connect, is now available for any web developer to access and implement. So is Google’s service, Friend Connect. Both sites have been giving access privately over the last few weeks and months, after both companies — and a third rival, MySapce — announced ...

Facebook Connect goes live; Tell your favorite Web site
Between the Lines — December 4th, 2008 Facebook Connect goes live; Tell your favorite Web site Posted by Sam Diaz @ 4:03 pm Categories: General , Facebook Tags: Web , Facebook , Web Site , Curtain , Web Site Development , Social Networking , Web Technology , Internet , Online Communications , Marketing The curtain has been officially raised on Facebook Connect , a feature that links partner Web sites with the profiles of Facebook members.( Techmeme ) Everyday, Facebook looks more and more like a platform instead of just another social ...

Facebook’s platform: Rebuilding the plane in midflight
VentureBeat — Facebook’s developer platform was a watershed. It gave outside companies unprecedented access to users of a major social network. But the platform, launched in May, has come under increasing scrutiny. Facebook has continued to change the technology and rules governing what developers can and can’t do on the site. The issue is whether or not Facebook’s platform, including newly-launched “Facebook Connect,” is stable enough to justify other companies making the effort to use it. Heralded last year as one of the most exciting new areas for investment, the platform has seen the hype ...

Building Scalable Databases: Pros and Cons of Various Database Sharding Schemes
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life — Database sharding is the process of splitting up a database across multiple machines to improve the scalability of an application. The justification for database sharding is that after a certain scale point it is cheaper and more feasible to scale a site horizontally by adding more machines than to grow it vertically by adding beefier servers. Why Shard or Partition your Database? Let's take Facebook.com as an example. In early 2004, the site was mostly used by Harvard students as a glorified online yearbook. You can imagine that the entire storage requirements and query load on the database could be handled ...