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news.bbc.co.uk 10y ago

Spielberg finally makes the grade (2002)

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www.vox.com 10y ago

The Green Lantern Theory of the Presidency

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arstechnica.com 10y ago

A walk around Sikorsky “Raider,” contender for world’s fastest military copter

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code.facebook.com 10y ago

Writing code that writes code with Hack Codegen

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waitbutwhy.com 10y ago

How (and Why) SpaceX Will Colonize Mars – Wait but Why

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github.com 11y ago

Facebook/graphql

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www.usatoday.com 11y ago

Air Force eases policy banning transgender troops

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waitbutwhy.com 11y ago

The AI Revolution: Road to Superintelligence – Wait but Why

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www.facebook.com 11y ago

Say Thanks

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recode.net 11y ago

Nextbit Demos Service That Lets a Tablet Pick Up Where a Phone Left Off

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www.cnet.com 11y ago

Meet Baton, the ultimate handoff tool between Android devices – CNET

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www.buzzfeed.com 12y ago

Facebook Messenger Gets LGBT-Themed Sticker Set For Pride Month

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investor.fb.com 12y ago

Facebook Reports First Quarter 2014 Results

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newsroom.fb.com 12y ago

Connecting the World from the Sky

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www.slate.com 12y ago

Facebook's Privacy Dinosaur Wants to Make Sure You're Not Oversharing

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thenextweb.com 12y ago

Zuckerberg and his wife were the most generous charity donors in the US in 2013

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www.facebook.com 13y ago

Dalvik patch for Facebook for Android

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www.facebook.com 14y ago

Facebook Groups for Schools

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www.businessinsider.com 15y ago

That Story About How Facebook Lost Users In May Was A Bunch Of Crap

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www.facebook.com 15y ago

Building Efficient Data Centers with the Open Compute Project

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www.facebook.com 15y ago

One Mobile Site to Serve Thousands of Phones

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www.datacenterknowledge.com 16y ago

Facebook Begins Deploying IPv6

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blogs.channelinsider.com 17y ago

Is YouTube the Next Great Authentication Mechanism?

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From uBeam's website:

"Through process of logical deduction, acoustic energy is the only type of energy that can be used for over-distance wireless power transmission. Since uBeam owns the entire ultrasonic wireless power space from an IP perspective, the world will have to leverage uBeam’s technology."

You're right that yearbooks are not terribly useful on a day-to-day basis since it's static. However, I think Facebook's value comes from the organic nature of the site. You can update and craft your social graph to how you see yourself interacting with different groups of people at a given point in time. Of course your social graph will morph over time -- Facebook will hopefully make that as frictionless as possible. Facebook is a history of yearbooks.