VonGuard writes “Facebook has gotten fed up with the speed of PHP. The company has been working on a skunkworks project to rewrite the PHP runtime, and on Tuesday of this week, they will be announcing the availability of their new PHP runtime as an open source project. The rumor around this began last week when the Facebook team invited some of the core PHP contributors to their campus to discuss some new open source project. I’ve written up everything I know about this story on the SD Times Blog.”

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

“Knock, Knock” is the sounds that use to symbolize a salesman’s presence, with a great haircut, suit to match and briefcase in hand.
Although presentation was of importance, it wasn’t exactly what got him in the door; and even though what he was selling may have been what the client was looking for, it would be [...]

On December 31, 2009, Andy Carvin from NPR asked people on Twitter and Facebook to sum up the year in one word. He then ran the results through Wordle to generate a word cloud.
As you can see, some found hope in 2009 while others found it to be exhausting. Many considered 2009 to be bittersweet, [...]

SocialMouths has put together an excellent list of 10 steps to make your Facebook fan page shine. I would love to add, but they/he did an excellent job at wrapping it up.
Here’s the list, but visit SocialMouths for the details:
 

Insights (Your In-House Analytics)
Vanity URL
Big Profile Pic (Banner Style)
Invitations & Bulk Messages
Twitter Integration
Facebook Widgets On Your [...]