Facebook

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I'm not a large fan of the FB, but the technology behind it is actually pretty cool:

http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/06/18/the ... -facebook/

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100 million user's information harvested and torrented:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=19198

Legally.

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Diaspora is the open-source, privacy-minded alternative to Facebook:

http://www.joindiaspora.com/

https://www.pcworld.com/article/202290/ ... ?tk=hp_new

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List of corporations downloading the 100 million FB users:

http://gizmodo.com/5599970/major-corpor ... bittorrent


Collected via Peer Block.

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Researcher who did it was Canadian and wanted a database of actual usernames to test his security software:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10802730

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You're all dumb, narcissistic jerks:

http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20 ... y-confirms

http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/full/1 ... .2009.0257

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HipHop, Facebook's open source project to convert PHP code to C++

http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/358/

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Now it tracks you even when you log out:

http://nikcub-static.appspot.com/loggin ... not-enough

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They released a new JIT PHP compiler:

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_i ... 5177928920

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Something to think about:

"Facebook has added sleuthing to its array of data-mining capabilities, scanning your posts and chats for criminal activity. If the social-networking giant detects suspicious behavior, it flags the content and determines if further steps, such as informing the police, are required. Reuters provides an example of how the software was used in March: 'A man in his early 30s was chatting about sex with a 13-year-old South Florida girl and planned to meet her after middle-school classes the next day. Facebook's extensive but little-discussed technology for scanning postings and chats for criminal activity automatically flagged the conversation for employees, who read it and quickly called police. Officers took control of the teenager's computer and arrested the man the next day.'"

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/07/13/ ... l-activity

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"Facebook has chosen Canadian users to be guinea pigs for a new mobile feature to make free phone calls. Facebook's new Messenger app for Apple mobile devices enables voice-over-Internet protocol phone calls, which use data instead of eating into the minutes in a mobile plan."

http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/01/05 ... -in-canada