Facebook Bug Shuts Web Down; Freedom to Marry

The article to which I'm linking explains more about the issues Facebook had last week, which seemed to be about Facebook's connect API that resulted in shutting down more than a few web sites. This article from Technorati explains it fairly well.

The said Facebook glitch apparently stemmed from the company's Connect software, a system that lets outside websites sync with Facebook, so people can do things such as post "Likes" or comments back to friends, or log in using their Facebook identiti...