Face book

Facebook.com took the wraps off its highly anticipated makeover from a members-only club into what it hopes can allow it to become a software operating system for all sorts of Internet media. The college student social networking site, which opened up to users of all ages over the past year, said it has signed up 65 partners, including Microsoft and Amazon.com, to build Web applications within Facebook.Founded in 2004 by then-undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg as a socializing site for fellow Harvard students, Facebook now has 24 million active users and is growing by 3 per cent a week.The No 2 social network site, behind News Corp's MySpace, will allow developers to build services that work both inside Facebook's site and on their own independent sites.