Quoted: After Facebook released v1.1 of their iPhone application, they promised that a bigger, badder v2.0 was in the works for September. They cut it pretty close, but they’ve kept their word. Just a few hours ago, the second major release of the Facebook application hit the App Store, bearing a whole new user interface and a slew of fresh features. With

Quoted: Facebook is planning to launch a new version of its iPhone application in September that will make the app more like the newly-redesigned web site. So, the deeper rationale for the web site redesign, perhaps, was to make it easier to replicate on mobile applications like this one.

Quoted: It was sort of inevitable given Facebook’s monster growth over the last few years, but April 2008 was the milestone: Facebook officially caught up to MySpace in terms of unique monthly worldwide visitors, according to data released by Comscore and shown above. Both services are attracting around 115 million people to their respective sites each month.

Quoted: Facebook certainly chose a peculiar time to announce the imminent death of a platform (and dare I say, operating system) staple: the installation screen. In the late afternoon of last Friday, Pete Bratach penned a post called “Streamlining Application Authorization” that went virtually unnoticed by the press at the time, even by Facebook-focused blogs.

This is an interview with the developer of those zombie facebook apps. He has abstracted FB's interface and OpenSocial so that his new widgets are easily made to run on the various platforms.

Quoted: Large, well-funded companies are increasingly dominating the little world of Facebook applications. Slide and Rockyou for all-purpose applications, Zynga and SGN for social games, iLike for music. These companies have also moved aggressively as Facebook’s rival social networks began opening up their platforms to third parties over the last half a year

Quoted: Microsoft Live Messenger is the latest to integrate Facebook chat, meaning you can talk it up with your Facebook friends directly from Microsoft’s instant messaging client, according to a report on allfacebook. This integration is a passive and useful way in which Microsoft can utilize the social network into which it invested millions, and further

Quoted: After having spent a sum of about 100 hours being seduced by a guy about 15 years her junior, Sheryl Sandberg, a former vice president of global online sales and operations at Google, has been taking the past several weeks familiarizing herself with some friendly faces in the Californian city of Palo Alto for a run at the gig of chief operating officer

Quoted: Update: Facebook has confirmed that it will be conducting a slow, gradual rollout of Facebook Chat, and tells users to expect “fairly soon to notice our Chat bar at the bottom of your browser.”  Justin Smith of InsideFacebook is one of the lucky ones to already have it and he has posted his first impressions. According to Nick O’Neill of AllFacebook,