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law.com - 2/10/2009

Quinn Spills Value of Facebook Deal

— law.com — SAN FRANCISCO Facebook paid the founders of ConnectU $65 million to settle lawsuits accusing Facebook CEO Mark... Zuckerberg of stealing the idea for the wildly successful social-networking Web site, according to a law firm's marketing brochure. Lawyers ... (more) Quinn Spills Value of Facebook Deal

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obsessable.com - 2/5/2009

Best and worst Facebook applications

— obsessable.com — Which camp are you in: Get your Twitter out of my Facebook, or bring on the social... integration? Has civilization been improved by the wanton throwing of sheep, or is the world clearly at its end? Check out our picks below, and we want to hear from you about your best and worst Facebook apps. (more) Best and worst Facebook applications

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allfacebook.com - 2/7/2009

Facebook Opens Status API, Say Goodbye to Twitter

— allfacebook.com — Tonight Facebook has made a number of updates to the Facebok platform one of which is the... opening of status updates. In order to get Facebook statuses, you no longer need to use a session ID to access statuses. This is a huge update and one that I ... (more) Facebook Opens Status API, Say Goodbye to Twitter

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A VC — ... is behaving in this regard. It's impressive as hell. Say what you will about Mark Zuckerberg. He's got the intellectual curiosity and honesty to see what's going on and deal with it. He's done it again and again, with the news feed, with the platform, and now with status. And the social and real time web is so much better because of it.Related articles by Zemanta facebook finally opening up feeds to the beast (benbarren.com) What Facebook's More Open Platform Means For You (allfacebook.com) Facebook Opens Up: ...

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Webware.com — ... 150 million active members. Earlier this week, Facebook gave another nod toward openness, rather unexpectedly joining the board of the OpenID Foundation, whose designs on a universal log-in standard are something of a rival to the similar Facebook Connect. Reaction to Friday's API news was by and large favorable among Facebook watcher, some of whom were quick to point to potential competition with microblogging service Twitter. Said Nick O'Neill of the All Facebook blog: Will this "more open" Facebook platform result in a new ...