National Hurricane Center Is Angling For Facebook Fans

Posted by Jennifer Moire on May 31st, 2011 11:42 AM

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The National Hurricane Center is trying to get more Facebook likes, as the official start of hurricane season approaches on June 1.
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Missouri Tornado Survivors Reconnect On Facebook

Posted by David Cohen on May 26th, 2011 9:52 AM

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Following the massive, deadly tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri Sunday night, local newspaper The Joplin Globe turned to Facebook to try to connect survivors with their families and friends.
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Tornado Posts Hit Facebook At Rate Of 20 Per Second

Posted by Jackie Cohen on May 23rd, 2011 8:23 PM

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Updates about the latest rash of tornadoes hitting the midwestern portion of the U.S. have been hitting Facebook at a rate of about 20 posts every second.
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WATCH: Facebook Page Is Tornado Lost-And-Found

Posted by Jackie Cohen on May 6th, 2011 3:35 PM

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A Facebook page has been reconnecting storm survivors with photos and memorabilia that scattered hundreds of miles away — the work of more than 200 tornadoes that ripped through the southern U.S. about ten days ago.
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Facebook Open Sources Core FriendFeed Technology

Posted by Nick O'Neill on September 10th, 2009 1:34 PM

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In his first Facebook blog post today, David Recordon has announced the open sourcing of Tornado, FriendFeed’s real-time web services technology. As described by Recordon, Tornado is a “non-blocking Web server framework written in Python”. In addition to open sourcing many of their other technologies, Facebook is continuing to support the open source movement by providing more libraries for developers.
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