Facebook Developers | HipHop for PHP: Move Fast. Facebook is open-sourcing a php to c compiler that they said reduced their CPU footprint by 50%. They mention that facebook is doing 400B page views a month. that’s 154K per SECOND.

Iranian Crackdown Goes Global – WSJ.com. people with family still in iran were getting threats for posting stuff on facebook. honestly, what thugs.

Erland at Facebook. They use erlang for chat. 800+ million user messages / day, 7+ million active channels at peak, 1GB+ in/sec atpeak. crazy.

Classmates.com Employees Don’t Have Heart To Tell CEO About Facebook | The Onion. awesome.

Oficinas de Facebook / O+A Studio | Plataforma Arquitectura. photos of facebook’s new hq. very cool stuff.

BBC NEWS | Web attack ‘aimed at one blogger’. Seems the denial of service attack on twitter and facebook was targeting just one anti-russia blogger from georgia.

Facebook > The Road to 200 Million. nice New York Times infographic.

Too Many Online Friends? Time to Delete – NYTimes.com. burger king ran a campaign where you a free whopper if you delete 10 facebook friends.

Frankie Goes To Facebook. 1 gem install, 18 lines of ruby, 2 lines of config, a couple clicks on facebook, and i have an authenticated hello world app.

Facebook No Longer The Second Largest Social Network. damn. now that’s scaling.

Facebook TextboxList with Autocompletion. that’s a pretty good trick of having the input box inside a fake input box.

Facebook To Launch New Privacy Controls; Confirms Chat Is Coming. so now you can sort out what your co-workers see versus your drinking buddies.

10-Minute Quick Start Guide for Facebooker – Create a Facebook App Using Rails in 7 Easy Steps. that looks pretty damn easy.

Data Store API documentation – Facebook Developers Wiki. this looks interesting. it’s basically an objectspace storage. has functionality to add associations between object types like database foreign keys but also define whether they’re symmetrical or asymmetrical. via anton

Facebook’s Zuckerberg on 60 Minutes. Leslie Stahl was speaking to him like he had a learning disability.

Thrudb – faster, cheaper than SimpleDB. create a scalable distributed datastore with memcache and this disk+S3 storage solution. uses facebook’s thrift as well. tobi has a post on getting this setup on OSX.

Facebox 1.0. a facebook-style lightbox for jquery. i like hoe they implemented the extra css-class options in the relation tag.

TheStar.com | 1 in 4 Canadians on Facebook “half are over the age of 30″. damn. via ram, who isn’t on facebook.

23doves: On the Buses. my brother-in-law on London bus drivers and a recent facebook controversy. Also, I thought that every Brit with a customer facing job was angry with you, not just bus drivers.

Ruby Web-Services with Facebook’s Thrift – igvita.com. intro to using thrift in ruby. looks nicer than soap or corba. though that’s not saying much.