Hurry up and find out who the secret lesbians are in your social network before Facebook fixes the problem. [Wired]

NASA boldly goes where college students and early adopters have gone before. [CNET]

"While teens on Facebook all know about MySpace, not all MySpace users have heard of Facebook. In particular, subaltern teens who go to school exclusively with other subaltern teens are not likely to have heard of it. Subaltern teens who go to more mixed-class schools see Facebook as "what the good kids do" or "what the preps do." They have various labels for these hegemonic teens but they know the division, even if they don't have words for it. Likewise, in these types of schools, the hegemonic teens see MySpace as "where the bad kids go." "Good" and "bad" seem to be the dominant language used to divide hegemonic and subaltern teens in mixed-class environments." [Danah]

On Friday, the Dow Jones board gave News Corp. its proposal to safeguard the editorial independence of the Wall Street Journal; News Corp. "reacted coolly," and responded yesterday with "a significantly altered draft." News Corp.'s version offers a 15-member board, with one seat for the Bancrofts and five members appointed independently. The board would have no authority over the hiring or firing of personnel including the WSJs publisher. Nevertheless, the two sides are supposedly close to agreement, according to an insider who stipulates that "a deal between Mr. Murdoch and the Bancrofts' advisers did not mean that either the Dow Jones board or the family, which controls 64 percent of the shareholder votes, would approve the arrangement."

In his latest guide to startups, Netscape cofounder Marc Andreessen unwittingly offers a rational explanation for Silicon Valley's Facebook frenzy: Sucking up. First, venture capitalists, in their endless neophilia, started using the social networking site. Then entrepreneurs joined in, too, in hopes of impressing those VCs — brazen attempts, in short at brown-nosing their way to getting funded. The same dynamic applies to Twitter, which is an even better medium for elevator-pitching the Valley's short-attention-span financiers. After the jump, Andreessen's analysis.

"When I added a 12th application to my lineup—I think it was 'Pets'—one wall-poster labeled me an 'applications slut.'" [Slate]

Have you ever loved a magazine so much that you wanted to reach out and touch it in its special internet-place? Yeah, us neither. Apparently, though, some Facebook-inclined people need to have this kind of relationship with New York magazine. They want to tell it their thoughts, like "I wish 2 be the editor of NY MAG ONE DAY!" Good luck with that, Sarah Sarway (Yeshiva of Flatbush). Also, if you ask a question on the Wall, there's a chance that ice-princess publicist Serena Torrey will deign to lower herself to personally answering you. Her avatar is a photograph of three pigs. The pigs represent Adam Moss, Bruce Wasserstein, and the younger Wasserstein who secretly owns the magazine. Or: ignorance, stealth, and narcissism. Or: the three vanities. Or: Appolonia 6. Go on, poke her!

We [Heart] New York magazine! [Facebook]

Serendipitous meetups and I-know-you-so-well moves look so good in romantic comedies, so why have I been served so many restraint orders? Search and social sites have gotten sophisticated enough that I can pull off a good John Cusack boombox-over-the-head scene with your favorite song — on date one. Here's how I can find out everything about you online.

Slide executive Keith Rabois, one of the many new converts to Facebook in Silicon Valley, asks how much a Facebook app user is worth. The increasingly popular social network lets other Web companies plant applications, like Slide's photo-sharing service, on its site. But it's not clear how much loyalty users of such add-ons have to any site besides Facebook. So Rabois's question is apt, if a bit tardy: One wonders why Rabois didn't ponder such matters before Slide CEO Max Levchin got up on stage with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to swear fealty to Facebook's platform.

Hadi Partovi, President of music sharing site iLike.com, on his company's priorities: "Our goals are first to become the dominant music player on Facebook and, second, to become profitable" [Seattle Times]

Bored at work? Here's a guide to the best time-wasting applications on the new Facebook platform. [CNET]

Mark Zuckerberg drops in, like a rockstar in a small-town club, to a developer meeting in New York. [CNET]

From our mailbag: "Kristian Laliberte added 'anything british or historical' to his favorite tv shows. 8:02pm." God, you people!

Facebook: Social Network, Developer's Platform, Law Enforcement Tool? [CBC]

Facebook is apparently like crack for London's media community. We finally understand why our boss made us all sign up. [Guardian]

TIM FAULKNER — Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg's "social utility" (better than a network), was lauded with much fanfare last week for its new "open" developer platform. What Facebook doesn't want you to know is the strict control they intend to exert over their developers and their image. Now we can reveal their methods via a leaked guideline for developer press releases that you weren't supposed to see. Key excerpts with translation from PR speak to English after the jump.

TIM FAULKNER — As mentioned previously, Facebook is having problems dealing with its sudden burst of attention despite seemingly manageable volumes of use. iLike, a music sharing and recommendation application currently the most popular with 4300+ users, provides a snapshot of this issue as well as the possibilities; the 90+ reviews, mostly negative, point to some of the larger concerns facing these applications and Facebook.

NICK DOUGLAS — Just a quick reminder to anyone still waiting for Facebook to sell out: Founder Mark Zuckerberg is in a press conference about the social site's new open platform "F8" (which lets outside developers make applications to use the Facebook network). "I've always believed that Facebook should remain independent," he said, "and this platform confirms that belief." (One reporter asked how a layperson could differentiate Facebook from would-be buyer Yahoo; Mark sounded like he hadn't been watching Yahoo closely at all. As for competitors, Mark said that F8 has none.

In a fiasco sure to torture liberal-minded college young'uns that love to check out pictures of their friends' tawdry library hook-ups, Facebook has apparently caved in to pressure to ban "Arab LBTG." That user group had the option of closing access to members from some Arab countries or shutting down entirely. According to a Facebook admin, "we received an official complaint from the Saudi government, the Egyptian government and other Arab governments that do not want to be mentioned"—and those countries threatened to block Facebook entirely if their demands weren't met. See? Not only does the internet spread democracy, so does capitalism!

Pity poor Virginia Heffernan of the New York Times, tasked with explaining the phenomenon of teen social networking sites in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings.