All stories about "Facebook"

Endangered donkeys have brought together a divided Cyprus thanks to a little help from Facebook. After 10 of the wild beasts were shot dead, an initiative launched on the social networking site brought together both Greek and Turkish Cypriots to help save the rest. [BBC]

In a sequel to our own round-up of same, here's a handy guide to the ten best travel-related Facebook apps, from the incredibly popular "Where I've been" to eco-friendly "Carpooling" and the highly useless "Weather." [ProTraveller]

New York mag does yeoman work digging up the Facebook profiles of various chefs, assistants, and staff (or "scullions") from big New York restaurants. Make with the poking. [NYM]

Other than posting the odd note on our ghost town of a Facebook group, we never paid much attention to the social media side. But now we've established ourselves as a Facebook entity of sorts, which allows you to be a "fan" of us. Sure, it's borderline mortifying, but only if you had some particular emotional investment in the philosophic sanctity of Facebook in the first place. Once we get a decent population of Facebook fans, we plan to start using that outlet not as a way to spam you with links back to this site (well, not all the time anyway), but to discuss ideas and topics you'd like to see covered. So take a look and establish your fanhood. We won't take advantage of this new relationship. Much.

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Earlier this month, rumors swirled that Expedia's TripAdvisor review site had bought the Facebook application Where I've Been for a startling $3 million. Though that rumor turned out to be false (or at least false until it becomes true), the story engendered a mini-frenzy of copycat apps meant to capitalize on the success of Where I've Been. So what does WIB do for all this buzz and that phantom $3 million?

You think you're huge on Facebook? Well, maybe so, but are you just a big fish in a small pond? (Or perhaps you're just a rather sordid person.) Our sib site Valleywag directed us to a deceased Facebook application that tracked the number of members in the world's most populous Facebook networks. We've assembled a map of the top 50 Facebook networks worldwide, so even if you're popular, you can now determine just how popular your popularity is. You may share our shock that Canada basically dominates the Facebookoverse. Must be lonely in the frigid northlands -- a fact proven by Norway's stellar showing as well. Hit the jump and whip it out, social networking wise.