I hope Rupert Murdoch is consulting with Terry Semel on how to save his internet property between meetings with the Bancrofts. My merry band of Perl monkeys have compiled for you this ranking of the 105 most popular Facebook applications ranked by users as of yesterday evening. You must be logged into Facebook […]

Popularity: 6% [?]

Facebook has been a good open source citizen, sharing significant improvements to memcached. Now it releases the homegrown software framework Thrift:

Thrift
Thrift is a software framework for scalable cross-language services development. It combines a powerful software stack with a code generation engine to build services that work efficiently and seamlessly between C++, Java, Python, PHP, […]

Popularity: 8% [?]

I’ve given a lot of credit to Facebook here in the past for keeping to the mission of relevant social networking. Unlike MySpace, which is too busy monetizing attention, hungry Facebook continues to roll out innovations that focus on social interaction. Facebook is now tapping the social well to solicit feedback — and […]

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This is an exciting development but won’t be meaningful to the average user. Until now, the Facebook API has only permitted gets and queries — you can pull information out but not put anything in. Automation both ways would make life too easy for the spammers — we’ve seen the chaos on MySpace […]

Popularity: 3% [?]