A tipster has written in to name Facebook programmer Jordan Moncharmont as the employee who allegedly looked up a user's password, logged into her account, and changed her profile picture to a graphic image. The story goes that one of Moncharmont's friends put him up to the deed because the victim, some years ago, had rejected this friend's invitation to the prom. We have no evidence to back this accusation. Our tipster, however, writes that the victim is certain Moncharmont was the meddler. Why?

Looks like the Financial Times got the same pitch. As did the New York Times.

"One of my roommates tells me this morning that she went to 'the craziest party ever' in Pacific Heights last night," a tipster writes in. "It involved an indoor pool, a lot of champagne, naked people, and someone in a Viking costume who said he was a Facebook founder." Ah, she must be talking about the house owned by Founders Fund partners Ken Howery and Luke Nosek, nicknamed the Grotto. And who was the Hagar the Horrible Facebook Founder? "She's trying to find out his name from other friends who were there, but said he's tall, has dirty blond hair and glasses, and is not particularly attractive." Based on that somewhat unkind description, we'd guess the Viking was Sean Parker. Shame we weren't there to remind people that Parker's not actually a founder of the social network. The party was ostensibly held to toast Microsoft's recent investment into the social network, though we've heard whispers of other reasons behind the celebration. Were you there? Snap any pics? Let us know.

Put down the Viking helmet and champagne, Facebook founders. There's actually a downside to that $15 billion valuation. Facebook plans to double its workforce from 350 to 700 in the next year, but that might be difficult, the Wall Street Journal argues. Why? Because the high valuation raises the value of stock options to the point where there's little potential upside for employees just signing on now. Owen Van Natta, Facebook's chief revenue officer, admits, it's a "real issue." Nah. Hate to disagree with another Owen, but my namesake is wrong here.

Are Facebookers having a hard time keeping their pervy hands off user profiles? Over the weekend, we learned that Facebook employees take full stalkerish advantage of their ability to peruse member profiles. Now a tipster writes in claiming that a Facebook product manager actually looked up a user's password, logged into her account, and changed her profile picture to a graphic image. Here's the back story.

"My friend got a call from her friend at Facebook, asking why she kept looking at his profile," says a privacy-conscious source at a major tech company. Turns out Facebook employees can (and do) check out anyone's profile. Not only that, but they also see which profiles a user has viewed — a major privacy violation. If you've been obsessed with a workmate or classmate, Facebook employees know. If Barack Obama's intern has been using the campaign account to troll for hotties, Facebook employees know. Within the company, it's considered a job perk, and employees check this data for fun.

Event-planning site Going.com created Naughty Gifts for the Facebook platform last summer, hoping the app would bring traffic to the site. But instead, a lot of users have come and gone. The company says Naughty Gifts has gathered 4 million Facebook users, predictably including my boss. [Ed.'s note: Come see me in my office, Carlson.] Going.com, however, hasn't seen a commensurate benefit from all that attention, with less than 250,000 monthly visitors according to Compete.com. So what's a startup to do?

Would someone please shut down the Valley and lock the doors? I don't know if I can take another week like this. Seriously, can you remember another week filled with such drama? Microsoft showers Facebook with cash, making Mark Zuckerberg a paper billionaire — and turning Facebooker Dave Morin's relationship with a Googler into forbidden fruit. Meanwhile, venture capitalist David Hornik attempts to have an off-the-record conference in Hawaii and completely fails — because gossip will out. Gossip like BusinessWeek's Sarah Lacy throwing a drink at TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington, while his CEO, Heather Harde, stays up suspiciously late with WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg. Yahoo loses a devoted cheerleader and its top marketer. Larry Ellison tries to reel in BEA. Special correspondent Nick Douglas, meanwhile, demands I stop reading all of my favorite sites. I need something. Not a unicorn chaser. How about ....

One curious thing about the Wall Street Journal story reporting that Facebook was looking to raise as much as $260 million — but not the $500 million celebritard blogger Fake Steve Jobs suggested. The Journal's Vauhini Vara cites "a person" or "people familiar with the matter" six times. What does that indecipherable journalism-speak actually mean?

Thanks to Steve Ballmer's so-called friends, we got our hands on the juicier bits from the Microsoft CEO's Facebook profile — the wall post messages other Facebook users left for him. The gem? JupiterResearch vice president's Michael Gartenberg's jovial joshing that Ballmer wasn't planning to buy an iPhone, posted for all of Ballmer's friends to see. Also, what the heck is this "WHiPS 2007" group that Ballmer joined? Wait, never mind, I don't want to know. After the jump, the full profile in all its glory.

Google's system for placing ads on other websites, AdSense, is experiencing a significant bug at exactly the wrong time. Microsoft has dominated media coverage all week with its investment in Facebook, with the promise of precisely targeted ads. Meanwhile, the search giant has been toiling since last Friday to resolve errors in how AdSense reports ad "channel" data since Friday. ("Channels" allow publishers who run AdSense to track ad performance in detail.) Google's silence has done little to assuage the complaints of AdSense users. Google's only comment came on Monday from the quasi-anonymous "AdSense Advisor":

Google's mission? Organize the world's information. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's mission? Underpants. A very brave tipster answered our call to forward us screenshots of brain-eating Ballmer's actual Facebook profile. Which, of course, is a thousand times better, and stranger, than our fictional profile. By the way, any other powerful Facebook friends whose illusions about privacy you want to violate? Send us more screenshots. Here's Ballmer's.

It's widely-known that each of Facebook's nearly 50 million active users are either procrastinating millennials in their cubicles, college students, or pedophiles. Now, reports indicate a third group has joined Facebook, MySpace and social networks: the Russian mob. "Facebook and MySpace are a goldmine of data for the bad guys," MessageLabs founder and chief security analyst Mark Sunner told Australian outlet, The Age. Sunner goes on to explain that by the bad guys, he means the "shady" Russian Business Network, which is not, as of yet, a News Corp. property. Worried? Contact MessageLabs, which for a small fee, will set you up with a far more secure network, according to MessageLabs. Someone should let the Russians know about this business.

We picked up Dan Lyons's rumor as Fake Steve Jobs that Facebook has cajoled hedge funds into investing another $500 million, and noted that CFO Gideon Yu must never sleep. And Forbes, where Lyons has a day job, also called the deal complete. Not so, people familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal. The new investment will only be as much as another $260 million, making the total raised in this round, including Microsoft's money, $500 million. An announcement could come soon, but nothing's been signed yet. We know some VCs wanted in on this deal but hear it got too rich for them. (Photo by spcbrass)

Is 23-year-old Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg worth $3 billion, as ignorant slut Kara Swisher of AllThingsD believes? Or nearly $5 billion, as Valleywag has reported? Silicon Alley Insider's Peter Kafka has absolutely zero fresh reporting to add on this matter, but he says he wants a cage match between us to settle the matter. No way! That mean lesbian would claw my eyes out in three seconds flat. I'm glad she's wasting time in Hawaii right now instead of doing some real work. [Silicon Alley Insider]

Google's Sergey Brin is bummed. MySpace slackers-in-chief Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe probably couldn't taste their breakfast this morning either. It's the day after Microsoft and Facebook's announcement and while we know for the pair it was a salesman's win-win-win, somebody's got to be the lose-lose-loser. But cheer up, Google and MySpace, the verdict is in and it ain't you.

In case you missed the whole hullabaloo about Microsoft taking a $240 million stake in Facebook, CNBC has the 15-second version. Tech pundits with a bad case of blogorrhea could take notes from the cable network's brevity.