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Facebook announced Friday a new JavaScript client library that will allow Facebook apps to be displayed on any website.

The client library allows users to make Facebook API calls from any web site and create Ajax Facebook applications on that website.

Students Worry About Parental Snooping, Devise Ways to Protect Privacy

The Facebook group entitled "For the love of god -- don't let parents join Facebook" has 5,819 high school and college-aged members who want to stop the growing number of parents who are joining Facebook, the massively popular social networking site, from "spying" on them.

Adknowledge, a behavioral targeter focusing on social nets, has acquired Facebook analytics firm Adonomics, AllFacebook reported (via Venturebeat). Adonomics’ data will be merged into Cubics, an online ad network for social net apps which Adknowledge bought last December. Initially, the company sought to attract investors and developers interested in reselling Facebook apps. Cubics originally was centered on Facebook, but eventually began working on creating services for Bebo and other OpenSocial networks as well.

I really enjoyed the discussion and feedback from my last post. I love that dolphin story, and after posting it here I've been telling it more often when I speak and people really seem to like it.

We are doing a Webinar together next week, and as a follow-up to my thoughts about Web 2.0 and education, I want to talk a little in this post on the uses of social networking in education, and to give some perspective on why I am so "bullish" on the topic.

As Facebook steps up the press around Facebook Connect this week, much of the discussion in the media trades around the business model for Facebook Connect is focusing on its potential to enhance contextual advertising on Connect-enabled websites.

But while supplemental demographic data and social endorsements will inevitably improve website ad performance in the long run, the real business beh