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Some Facebook engineers came up with a visualization of user activity by the social network's 120 million users across the planet.

Facebook has been granted an exemption by the Securities and Exchange Commission that allows the company to not comply with the same law that pushed Google into becoming a public company.

The exemption, reported by Business Week today, was granted on October 14 and allows the company to continue to grant restricted stock to employees.

Scientific music search tool Mufin opens up and launches its iTunes plug-in for sorting through your music for recommendations.

Leader Technologies has filed suit against Facebook for patent violations, but the alleged violation seems specious at best.

YouTube, MTV, and others are also on board for a New York event next month that hopes to use a successful anti-extremism campaign on Facebook as a springboard for more social-media activism.

Facebook has a new program that makes it sound a lot like open-source business models.

Domino's Pizza is offering a new service thanks to Tivo. Now you can order a pizza with a click of the remote.

If you're fast forwarding through a Domino's commercial, you'll get a prompt asking if you want to order a pizza.

The technology is a boon for companies which worry people aren't watching their ads anymore. And for consumers, it could be a hair faster than text messaging for a pizza, which you can do with the Papa John's chain.

Or ordering off Pizza Hut's Facebook page.

Facebook rolls out what appears to be a fine move: Verify applications are trustworthy and validate them. I could use the help given I don’t download a lot of Facebook apps since a lot of them would be described as crap.

What started out as Google's effort to create a common API for developing gadgets that can tap into data from across multiple social networking services is becoming more of a full-fledged, cloud application development platform.