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Quoted: The virtual machine network driver is an intermediate driver that virtualizes a physical network card (or connection).

An important thing to know when doing Ajaxy web dev for IE.

Quoted: It is not possible append to the BODY element from script that isn’t a direct child to the BODY element

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3.3G image file to download (will take 5 hours on a T1!)

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Watching the f8 (facebook developers conference) Keynote by Mark Zuckerberg, May 2007

Notes:
- 24M users (active in last 30 days)
- Over 25 yo are the biggest base of new users.
- 50% of active users are DAILY users.
- Growing 3% per week - 100,000 per week.
- 40B page views per month (50 pages per user per day)
- Photos - biggest photo app on the web (x2 all others)
- Events - 3x more people invited per month than Evite
- Social Graph: me, friends, asynch communication, communication network, value of network is N^2, goal is to "spread information"
- Groups on FB - some have 100,000 of members.
- Applications spread through network when the underlying information is spread throught the Social Graph.
- Demoed Facebook Video
- Microsoft's Daniel Lewin discussed developer tools and Silverlight, PopFly
- Amazon's Russ ___ (VP) - Web Services (S3, EC2), Book reviews application announced (not demoed)
- Max ____ (Slide/PayPal founder): "hack hard"
- 65 companies have built products for launch
- 85 developers at FB

Facebook Platform:
- Integration: profile box, mini feed, application canvas (whole pages on FB), requests to friends, news feed publishing, user messaging
- Distribution: Users can customize by add/remove applications (including FB builtin apps), exposure in profiles, publish to news feed - can be seen by friends (add app, one-line stories, full stories) - these are SUGGESTIONS - FB prioritizes news, notifications (alert on home page, messages, emails), requests (invitiations to friends(!)), friend selector in javascript in FML).
- Business Opportunity: Canvas pages can serve ads (100% own revenue - they're YOUR pages), sell products (in future FB may revenue share with application partners!).

Facebook API:
- User grants access to profile, friends profiles, other application information,
- Facebook Markup Language (FML = HTML+) for profile - dynamic user names, private sections, image caching, flash (click to play)
- Canvas pages served from the developer's own web sites - has knowledge of the user, unlimited number of pages per application

Quoted: The following outlines the steps I took to create a new Facebook application written in ASP.NET using VS.NET 2005. I have not tested this in VS.NET 2003 so your mileage may vary there.

Handy if you want a liquid layout for your Web site.

Quoted: The CSS used for this layout is 100% valid and hack free. To overcome Internet Explorer's broken box model, no horizontal padding or margins are used. Instead, this design uses percentage widths and clever relative positioning.
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The solution is to keep things simple and only use CSS that works in all browsers. One of the main things to avoid is horizontal margins, padding and borders on elements with a specified width. This causes big problems for Internet Explorer because of it's broken box model. Unfortunately we can't simply ignore IE because it's the most widely used browser on the internet. If only everyone used Firefox!

Nice CSS Menu tutorial

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