One explanation of the Facebook exec departures.

Quoted: Here's one certainty in the hubbub that has resulted in the wake of the departure of high-profile exec Ben Ling from Facebook last week: COO Sheryl Sandberg is definitely not responsible for the melting of the polar ice caps. That's the joking question--Was global warming Sandberg's fault too?--that was asked at a staff meeting at the social networking start-up last Friday afternoon, after the news of Ling's departure, on the heels of some other previous employee exits, suddenly morphed into a series of increasingly vituperative posts on the Valleywag tech gossip site that all centered on what blogger Owen Thomas called Sandberg's "reign of terror" at Facebook. The truth of the situation, though, is actually a lot more interesting.

Reading for my fb friends:

Quoted: The “Secret Crush” worm seems to log into unsuspecting users’ accounts, send wall posts to their friends, and even some times, as was the case with my Aunt 5 months ago, change the user’s status as well. All posts seem to link back to a blogspot-hosted site that tries to get more information from the user to find out who their “secret crush” is.

Sounds like what I've seen going around on facebook.

Quoted: A spyware-infested third-party widget on Facebook is spreading like wildfire. Like some kind of e-STI, the 'Crush' application is spreading malicious spyware. The flirt widget makes use of an iframe hosted by Zango and sends you off to a site which asks you to download the 'Crush Calculator'. What you really get is spyware...

Quoted: Malware hunters at Kaspersky Lab (my employer) are seeing early signs that Twitter is now clearly big enough to be a distribution mechanism for malicious ...

Quoted: A backlash also arose against the proliferation of frivolous apps like "zombie bites," and "snowball fight." "We haven't done enough to reward good citizens and punish abusive apps." To help users sort out the 24,000 applications on Facebook, the new "Great Apps" program is intended to reward those deemed truly useful by giving them increased prominence on Facebook, earlier access to new features and more feedback.

A related verification process will "help users identify applications they can trust - applications that are secure, respectful and transparent, and have demonstrated commitment to compliance with Platform policies," according to the company. Verified apps will also earn increased visibility on the site.

They are doing thumbnails not image copies. UI looks like cover flow.

Quoted: While we've waited with bated breath for the release of Delicious 2.0 (Yahoo's been teasing us for months), Ryan Sit, the creator of ...

In the last several years we’ve seen the rise and fall of many social web applications. While most of our attention gets paid to the hugely successful ones like YouTube and Facebook, we can also learn a lot from those that have failed.

One thing about Facebook that most people still seem to have wrong: that it’s a walled garden. Quite the contrary, the Platform allows for full data portability and has since its inception. The problem is that this knowledge is buried deep within the FB documentation, a place few developers have wandered.

Twitter meets Faves. Follow instead of friend...no authoring dialog, you just click and its shared...poor micro-blog solution but very accessible to the twitter crowd.

Quoted: Y Combinator-funded Socialbrowse has just launched in private beta, and it has the potential to be big. The service could best be described ...