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South Africa is the latest region to fall under Facebook's spell. [myadsl news]

Can a Facebook coalition of the willing save Business 2.0? [AdAge]

Portfolio.com has interviewed Tyler Winklevoss, one of the Harvard graduates who has charged Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg with stealing the idea behind the hot social network. Winklevoss, who founded HarvardConnection, a college-networking site now known as ConnectU, appears to be a very angry, bitter young man. We love those types! Here's what Winklevoss had to say to Portfolio about Zuckerberg's actions: "Premeditated, well thought out, duplicitous and conniving." Winklevoss adds, "He messed with the wrong guys." Of course, Winklevoss is more than a bit duplicitous himself in the interview.

Joining the likes of Yahoo in using Ajax technologies, Facebook reduces the number of times users have to click through to another page to use its website. One more nail in the coffin of pageviews as a Web metric. [Read/WriteWeb]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a Q&A with Time Magazine. Revealed: Facebook isn't about meeting people online, instead it's about digitizing relationships you already have. Also, Zuckerberg is one of those bastards who doesn't need an alarm clock. [Time Magazine]

Fans of Time Inc. tech title Business 2.0 have taken the bold step of starting a Facebook group to show their support for the troubled publication. So far, the group has amassed over 50 members, including Business 2.0 editor Josh Quittner, Quittner's wife, New York Times columnist Michelle Slatalla, Gizmodo editor Brian Lam, TechCrunch's Michael Arrington, and LinkedIn CEO Reid Hoffman. Oh, and former Business 2.0 editor and my new boss Owen Thomas. Let's hope this roster of Valley luminaries is more effective than other futile Facebook groups, such as the 29,359 people who believe strongly in removing the "is" from the Facebook status message.

As Facebook's theoretical value soars, the interest of its hangers-ons grows practical indeed. I think that's why Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra are pursuing their lawsuit against sandal-sporting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg with such tireless vigor. But the three Harvard school chums, who say they hired Zuckerberg to work on their competing ConnectU site before he launched what became Facebook, are far from the only ones pressing a claim to have been present at Facebook's creation. (For the record, long-suffering Facebook PR chief Brandee Barker says the company's official cofounders are Zuckerberg, Chris Hughes, and Dustin Moskowitz.) After the jump, a gallery of everyone who's not an official founder — but who'd like to be.

A legal dispute from Mark Zuckerberg's past is not going away. Three years ago, fellow Harvard students Tyler Winklevoss, Cameron Winklevoss and Divya Narendra sued Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, claiming he'd taken code he'd written for ConnectU to launch his rival site. Now, legal filings reveal, the lawsuit is rolling forward, with motions to dismiss set to be heard on July 25. While it's likely that the case will keep wending its way through the courts for a while, I'm betting Facebook will settle, probably with Facebook shares rather than cash, before an IPO. After all, a lawsuit against the CEO is one of those pesky things investors don't like to see in an S-1 filing.

Everyone's still talking about Henry Blodget's facile guess on his Internet Outsider blog that Microsoft might offer $6 billion for Facebook, the social network of the moment. And Facebook investor Jim Breyer, the Accel Partners venture capitalist who's on Facebook's board, tried to stoke hopes for such an outsized valuation by casually mentioning at Fortune's iMeme conference that Facebook was on track to do $100 million in revenues and turn an operating profit, by some financial measures, this year. But you shouldn't buy Blodget's musings, or Breyer's shilling, for a moment. Here's why.

Facebook PR chief Brandee Barker chatting happily with MySpace PR head Dani Dudeck at Fortune's iMeme conference. And this right after MySpace slammed Facebook in a press release?

If Mark Zuckerberg is the new Steve Jobs (hint: yes), then the Facebook creator's Adidas flip-flops are the heir to the Apple founder's black turtleneck. Nearly every news item about the 23-year-old fratrepreneur mentions (among other signs of youth) the black and white sandals, which Mark wears with every outfit. The Globe and Mail barely avoided predicting he'd wear them to the mogul summer camp soon taking place in Sun Valley. (Answer: he's not going.) But we've heard bad news about Mark's favorite sandals: they're getting discontinued. Here's a photographic retrospective on the love between a boy and his flip-flops.

(Valleywag Emeritus Nick Denton took a break from playing with his iPhone to pen this screed. Enjoy! - Ed.)

The Class of 2011 is ready to party, and not just at Princeton, either, if these Facebook groups are any indication. Note: "counterfeit documents" is probably not the best euphemism for fake ID. [IvyGate]

If you missed our saturation coverage of all things Facebook, here's a nice recap. CNBC's Melissa Francis quizzes yours truly on the scandal about "Valleyfreude," the IPO-promoting video by Facebook employee Randi Jayne, the sister of CEO Mark Zuckerberg: (Video by CNBC)

Today, I don't think Randi Jayne, director of market development at Facebook and sister of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, would sing quite so gleefully about "startups [that] get the rag ... from Valleywag." Because now comes her employer's turn. The Reach Students blog notes that a campaign on Facebook drew a 0.04% click-through rate — a dismal response that's far from uncommon in advertisers' experiences. No wonder the site is scraping the bottom of the barrel to find advertisers. If Zuckerberg is to maintain his site's precious independence, he will have to figure out better ways for his company — and its advertisers — to profit from its rapidly swelling user base. Should he consider placing ads on his sister's show tunes instead? They'd get better click-throughs.

We hate that Miss New Jersey had to say that her goofy boob-biting Facebook photos were a "mistake," but everything else she told Matt Lauer on the "Today Show" just made us like her and want to be her friend. And the pictures made us like her too! Mmm, she's so bendy.

We hear Facebook is hiring a stock administration manager, preferably one with an experience at an "international public company." Not that Facebook's planning to go public or anything crazy like that. If that doesn't float your boat, Facebook rival Bebo is hiring. For other new gigs, check out these listings from Valleywag Jobs:

Robert Scoble: "My Facebook profile is literally a 'who's who' of the tech industry." Yes. With an emphasis on the "who?" [Scobleizer]

The moguls wandering through Sun Valley, Idaho, in the hopes of running into Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, will be sorely disappointed. Contrary to reports, he's not attending the conference, appearing instead at Fortune's iMeme conference in San Francisco. Sun Valley will have to settle for Facebook COO Owen Van Natta. Though they might not mind the substitution. Van Natta comes with several years of experience as Amazon's vice president of worldwide business and corporate development, where his duties included brokering deals with the same Hollywood types now clogging Sun Valley's streets.