The keyword used to be the exclusive province of Google, and one of the things that may ensure Google doesn’t become completely overshadowed by Facebook. But then Twitter’s trending topics began to eat into that monopoly.

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Want to know how Facebook manages daily code pushes from over 500 software engineers? In the company’s latest tech talk, executives described exactly that.
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This afternoon I received an inquiry from someone about how I created the Facebook like count calculator. Rather than just reply to their email I decided to just post the core code so you can program the same thing!
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On Thursday, Facebook announced their first ever Hacker Cup where the everyday Joe can compete against engineers from around the world for some major cash.
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Social Markup Language might sound like marketing spin on new software but Involver insists this is a bona fide programming lingo that the company is making available to the developer community today.
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This clever open-source tag pulls in a reader’s friends’ “likes,” and suggests that they to share the content with friends with matching interests.
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On Friday, Facebook announced a new staged migration system designed to give app developers time to test new fixes and features before they go live.
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Yesterday an interesting question appeared on Quora in which a user was wondering what forms of automated testing Facebook uses. Steven Grimm, Facebook’s test engineering tech lead, jumped in and provided a pretty comprehensive response. For non-programmers, be warned that his response is completely technical. However given that it was in response to a technical question, it provides superb insight for software developers.
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Typically I use this blog to write articles about Facebook, however after hosting the Social Developer Summit earlier this week, I thought I’d take this opportunity to get a single point across: developers are kings of the economy right now. While there are plenty of instances where developers don’t get credit for the work they do, developers are the ones driving innovation and its up to them to build us a new future. Here’s a quick synopsis of my thoughts on the developer kings.
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Want to scrape Facebook’s site for content? You may want to reconsider how you do so as Facebook has updated their Robots.txt file to be a bit more restrictive. If you aren’t aware of what a Robots.txt file is, you can read more here. Ultimately the Robots.txt file simply restricted certain pages from being indexed by anybody. Now Facebook has become more explicit within the file, limiting indexing to Baidu, Google, MSN, Naver, Slurp, Yandex, and other search engines. The company has also linked to the “Automated Data Collection Terms” page.
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