While no specific API changes were announced this morning, the new permissions model will essentially make the way that users will grant developers access to both their own profile information and their friends’ profile data more granular and explicit.

At this point in history we search by guessing at words that might be in the document that we are hoping also contains the actual piece of information we’re trying to determine. When you think outside the search-box a little, this methodology doesn’t necessarily strike you as the ultimate form of human-understandable information retrieval

Facebook has decent privacy controls, but most users don't realize how to take full advantage of them. Ars guides you through Facebook's privacy settings so that you can be both social and respectable at the same time.

The advent of a TwitterSense offering could not be timelier as the onslaught of noise on Twitter has increased dramatically and its manageability has become a real pain point.

Facebook’s design team walked through their philosophy and approach to designing for a quarter billion users. In particular, they emphasized the importance of writing code, sharing designs early and often, being involved with a project from start to finish, and not falling in love with your work.

performing essential 'reflexive work', work we do to manage our lives so that we feel safe and sustained and understood day by day. Reflexive work – nice term