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, [...]

Zaadz, the social network for spiritualists, announced today funding from John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods. If you’re some combination of Whole Foods junky, Buddhist, and reader of WIE magazine like me, this funding makes sense: Whole Foods is popular with the spiritual crowd, magazines like WIE and Yoga Journal are mainstays at [...]

Wallace is an old name popping up in a new context. Notorious for choking email boxes with his spam, Wallace is now being sued by MySpace in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles for creating 11,000 fake profiles in violation of the 2003 Can-Spam act. We’ve complained frequently here about how fake [...]

MySpace Germany is set to launch after gestating in beta since August. Thanks for the heads up, Tom! MySpace Germany reports 3.1 million members in February. To celebrate, MySpace announced the first Secret Show Germany: The Beatsteaks are playing Lido, Berlin. Wunderbar! MySpace Germany is one of a family of [...]