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.

Paul Kedrosky: Facebook Really is That Company. as in the greatest place to work where you’ll regret it if you didn’t go there.

Checkmate? MySpace To Join Google OpenSocial “Suddenly, within just the last couple of days, the entire social networking world has announced that they are ganging up to take on Facebook, and Google is their Quarterback in the big game.”

Open Social: a new universe of social applications all over the web. Marc Anderseen talks about Google’s new Open Social framework for building shit for social apps. via ram.

Microsoft paid $240M for a 1.6% stake in Facebook. That means facebook is valued at $15 billion.

Microsoft Is in Talks To Buy Facebook Stake - WSJ.com. Rumor is $300-500 million for a 5% stake.

Why Are Microsoft Execs So Active on Facebook?. Turns out that Bill Gates is on facebook and has the “Hot or Not” app installed.

Facebook for iPhone. a very usable iphone page.

Liverail - Tutorial on developing a Facebook platform application with Ruby On Rails. another post on the topic here.