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Developers write apps for Facebook not because it’s a wonder of modern software, but because it lets them tap into Facebook’s 60 million users. The result: a surfeit of zombie bites and Scrabble challenges, spread, in Valley parlance, “virally” from friend to friend on the social network. Last night, Facebook proved antiviral. A bug deleted all pending requests from friends to add an application. “Anyone else seeing that invitation acceptance numbers are down significantly over the past 7-8 hours?” one developer wrote in a Facebook forum. “Since about midnight PT, our signup numbers through requests/invites are about 40% lower than we’d normally expect.” Facebook’s response? An emoticon!

Hey, there appears to have been some data loss last night. It seems (ironically) that a script that was supposed to be backing things up and cleaning out old platform requests that were already acted on actually went haywire and instead deleted new requests that were not supposed to have been deleted.

Somehow, the all-powerful colon plus closed parenthesis managed to placate developers. Next up: Community relations via lolcats.

Source:Valleywag

Congratulations, Andrew Conru: Danni Ashe is now your coworker. As the porn-magazine business quietly biodegrades in the ashbin of history, the founder of Adult FriendFinder has sold his company, Various Inc., to Penthouse for $500 million. This despite his earlier denials. The price actually seems low, considering Various’s projected revenues this year of $340 million. But the porn business has always suffered from a market discount, as distaste thins the ranks of willing investors. FriendFinder’s troubles with the Federal Trade Commission, settled one day before the sale was closed last Friday, can’t have helped. What’s next for Adult FriendFinder’s new owner?

A Penthouse IPO, promised by CEO Marc Bell last year to happen sometime in 2008. We hear he’s shooting for April, now that he has a bigger Internet business to flog, one with the requisite buzzwords like “social networking” One thing he’ll now have to disclose to investors: Besides Danni.com, Penthouse owns Christian dating site BigChurch.com.

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Marcy Simon, the publicist romantically linked with Eric Schmidt, has broken up with the Google CEO. We wouldn’t take such interest in Schmidt’s affairs, if they didn’t make him obsessed with privacy and prone to making foolish hires — such as the time he installed Simon as a PR consultant in Google’s New York office. A messy breakup with his wife, Wendy, would also put his considerable stake in Google in play, which would seem to make keeping an eye on Schmidt’s wandering one well worth investors’ while.

Well, Google shareholders can rest easy. Simon figured out that despite the massive diamond ring he gave her, Schmidt wasn’t serious about promises he made Simon about splitting with Wendy. (According to a Simon confidante, Schmidt claimed he was “legally separated” from his wife. Can anyone confirm that?) “When he’s with Wendy, he’s completely with her,” says an insider. And when he’s not with her, he’s with someone like Kate Bohner. Impressive that he manages to have so much free time while ostensibly running Google.

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