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Facebook’s Project Palantir: Beautiful Visualization Of People Connecting
techcrunch.com - 11/23/2008
Facebook’s Project Palantir: Beautiful Visualization Of People Connecting
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A group of Facebook engineers - Jack Lindamood, Kevin Der and Dan Weatherford - have created a small project called Palantir at a Facebook Hackathon event. The project is named after The palantír of Orthanc , a crystal ball-like object from The Lord Of The Rings (yep, they’re nerds).  ...

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Webware.com:  Visualizing Facebook from outer space

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When Twitter Met Facebook: The Acquisition Deal That Fail-Whaled
kara.allthingsd.com - 11/24/2008
When Twitter Met Facebook: The Acquisition Deal That Fail-Whaled
— kara.allthingsd.com — About three weeks ago, Facebook and Twitter ended several weeks of serious talks, in which Facebook was offering to acquire Twitter for $500 million of its stock. While rumors of Facebook’s interest were brought up in an interview with ... (more) When Twitter Met Facebook: The Acquisition Deal That ...

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blog.facebook.com - 11/24/2008
Making Facebook Safe Against Spam
— blog.facebook.com — Last Friday, Facebook won an important victory for our users – and against spam and those who create it. We've all experienced spam – those unwanted and, sometimes, inappropriate marketing messages. (more) Making Facebook Safe Against Spam

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businessweek.com - 11/21/2008
Facebook Gets SEC Stock Exemption
— businessweek.com — The social networking giant received a waiver from the Securities & Exchange Commission so it can keep handing out equity to new employees By Spencer E. Ante Earlier this year the social networking site Facebook grew concerned that an obscure ... (more) Facebook Gets SEC Stock Exemption

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Visualizing Facebook from outer space
Webware.com — ... Some Facebook engineers came up with a visualization of user activity by the social network's 120 million active users across the planet. According to TechCrunch, the concept (named The ...

Linkpost | 11.23.2008
TechBlog — ... - Virgin lets 100 geeks take a charter flight to test its new in-flight Wi-Fi service. As the Eagles once sang, this could be heaven, or this could be hell. • Facebook's Project Palantir: Beautiful Visualization Of People Connecting - Only a video available. No live application, and this being Facebook, it's certainly not available off the site. • ...

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New Asimov Movies Coming — Slashdot
bowman9991 writes "Two big budget Isaac Asimov novel adaptations are on the way. New Line founders Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne are developing Asimov's 1951 novel Foundation, the first in Asimov's classic space opera saga, which has the potential to be as epic as Lord of the Rings. At the same ...
TMO Visits The Bay, a Premium Apple Reseller in New Zealand — The Mac Observer
Apple doesn't have any Apple-owned retail stores in New Zealand, but the company helped Grant Bremner open The Bay, an Apple Premium Reseller store that brings much of the look and feel of Apple Stores to the country made famous by "Making Of" features in The Lord of the Rings.
TMO Visits The Bay, a Premium Apple Reseller in New Zealand — The Mac Observer
Apple doesn't have any Apple-owned retail stores in New Zealand, but the company helped Grant Bremner open The Bay, an Apple Premium Reseller store that brings much of the look and feel of Apple Stores to the country made famous by "Making Of" features in The Lord of the Rings
Massively week in Review — Joystiq
Joystiq's sister site Massively.com has all the news you'll need about MMOs. Here's the best, brightest, and most interesting stuff from the last week, all in one convenient place for your MMO minute. Massively's exclusive pre-launch Moria interview with ...