According to CNN,
the U.S. Secret Service asked Facebook to suspend the use of an
application that allows users to create online polls when someone
created a poll asking whether the president should be killed. The
possible answers were "yes", "no", "maybe", and "if he cuts my
healthcare".
(Cross posted to madisonian.net)
Its great. Facebook is showing that it can build its own network if it has to, and it can be better and faster than what's out there.