For three seasons now, the Facebook Falcons have participated in an outdoor co-ed soccer league, competing against other companies and club teams in Silicon Valley. These weekly get-togethers have fostered strong relationships between the various departments that comprise Facebook. We have players representing engineering, user experience, business development, user operations and many more â€" all competing together under a banner of blue.

We're always working on innovative ways to make your experience on Facebook more useful. Toward that goal, today we've added web search for people in the US, powered by Microsoft Live Search, to your Facebook Search experience. This is only a first step in giving you the ability to search for content across the web right from Facebook. By integrating web search into Facebook, you can increase the information available to share with your friends,

Today we're excited to preview the next version of Lexicon . With over 100 million active users on Facebook, Lexicon graphs are a powerful way to understand the trends in what people are talking about. We've introduced a number of new ways to play with the data in this version, and many of the enhancements are based on your feedback over the last couple of months. Lexicon only gathers text from Walls and never accesses messages, Chat, searches, or other private data.

Last year in May, we held a big developer conference, f8. As you may know, we used f8 to introduce Facebook Platformâ€"a development system that enables developers to build applications on Facebook, where all of our 90 million users can interact with them. Honestly, the fact that applications grew so quickly was a surpriseâ€"even to us. We've learned a lot in this last year, and with success also found a new set of problems that we needed to solve. This year at f8,

After months of hard work, we're at a point where almost all 100 million people around the world on Facebook are using the new design. As we continue to roll this out, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on what we've built and why I think it's an important step for us. Facebook's mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. In the last four years, we've built new products that help people share more, such as photos, videos, groups,

Facebook is growing...fast. As we welcome new users and as our users become more active, we face new challenges, and we need great people that like working on hard problems to help us out. With 700 employees and over 100 million active users, each person working at Facebook has the chance to have an enormous impact. Over the coming year, we'll be visiting 20 universities and 5 business schools searching for talented students to fill both full-time and intern opportunities.

A few weeks ago Facebook announced a Partnership with ServiceNation , an exciting new initiative to increase volunteerism and service in America, as part of our ongoing commitment to connect people with the world around them. Today, more than 60 million Americans volunteer their time and energy to worthy causes and ServiceNation aims to increase that to 100 million by 2020. To this end, ServiceNation has assembled a coalition of organizations large and small,

We are just beginning the process of moving people over to the new Facebook and saying goodbye to the old Facebook. The new Facebook has been available for a few months for general use, and we've been iterating on it for a long time. We set out to make Facebook simpler, cleaner, more relevant, and easier to control. With your feedback and participationâ€"over 30 million people are now using the new siteâ€"we believe we've gotten to the best Facebook yet.

Five months ago, we launched the first translated version of Facebook in Spanish . Since then, the internationalization team and its community translators have been busy translating the site into sixteen more languages. We now supportâ€"among othersâ€"French, German, Japanese, Chinese, and Italian. You can see the full list of languages, or change your language settings, from the language selector in the footer on any page.

At Facebook, we're always trying to find new ways to make communication easier and more efficient. One way we do that is by making it easy to have a conversation about the things that happen on Facebook. In the past, you've been able to comment on photos, notes and posted items, but if there was something else on your friend's profileâ€"an interesting status, or a cool new friendshipâ€"you'd need to send a message or write a Wall post to talk about it. But starting today,

Early this morning, a small group of people started seeing prompts on their home pages to switch over and try out the new Facebook. We're really happy to say that anyone can try out the new site now by visiting http://www.new.facebook.com . As you explore the site, you should note: A simplified top menu: we've moved the Applications menu from the left side of the page to the top menu, giving everyone a little more space to breathe.

Last August we launched our Facebook iPhone website, and almost a year later it has over 1.5 million people using it regularly. We are thrilled to see so many enjoying Facebook on their iPhones, so we've been working on ways to take our iPhone experience to the next level. Today, Apple has opened the doors to its App Store which features a new application we've created: Facebook for iPhone.

As Facebook grows in other languages, we are learning a lot about what the "Facebook Experience" is like for people around the world. One of the first challenges was getting words that are really long in other languages to fit on the screen properly. Recently, we've been figuring out how to deal with a new challengeâ€"grammar. Ever see a story about a friend who tagged "themself" in a photo? "Themself" isn't even a real word. We've used that in place of "himself or herself".

This month, we're rolling out Inbox search, a tool which allows you to search through all of your messages either by name of the person who sent it, or by a keyword that shows up in the text. Ever had a friend send you a Facebook message suggesting a good restaurant? Or maybe you were sent an address or phone number of an old friend. Then time passes and your Inbox fills up,

Over the last few weeks, you may have noticed an additional home page box that features "People You May Know". We built this feature with the intention of helping you connect to more of your friends, especially ones you might not have known were on Facebook. People You May Know looks at, among other things, your current friend list and their friends, your education info and your work info. If you are already friends on Facebook with some people from your last job, for example,

Back in September 2006, we decided to open up Facebook to everyone. Well, almost everyone. We realized Facebook would be most useful if more people were allowed to join, but we also weren't willing to compromise the security of the site by removing all methods of verification, especially for high school students and minors. Unfortunately this meant that most homeschoolers weren't able to register. For security purposes,

We've often written about our commitment to keeping Facebook a safe place for you to interact and share information with your friends. We work hard to keep the site free of abuse, spam, and harassment. A recent place where we've been fighting the spam battle has been through sites that ask for a user's login information to use a contact importer, and then spam all of their friends.

A few weeks ago, we told you about the new ability to import stories into your Mini-Feed from other sites. Since then, we've been working on increasing the number of sites that work with this feature. We're happy to report that now, you can import activity from YouTube, StumbleUpon, Hulu, Pandora, Last.fm, and Google Reader in addition to Flickr, Picasa, Digg, Yelp and del.icio.us.

At Facebook we love tools that allow you to see what people around the globe are searching for or discussing on blogs, such as Google Trends or Technorati. We thought it would be cool to show trends on the public and semi-public forums across Facebook )also known as Walls(. Today we're announcing the launch of Facebook Lexicon, a tool where you can see the buzz surrounding different words and phrases on Facebook Walls.

We take spam prevention seriously here at Facebook, but unfortunately, there is spam on the site. As an example, you may have seen Wall posts advertising free ringtones among other spam, as well as a more malicious form of spam called "Phishing". These two trends are related, and here's why: Phishing is a method to trick Internet users into visiting fraudulent websites. Phishing websites are designed to look like the login page of popular websites. Because they look real,