NICK DOUGLAS — Just a quick reminder to anyone still waiting for Facebook to sell out: Founder Mark Zuckerberg is in a press conference about the social site's new open platform "F8" (which lets outside developers make applications to use the Facebook network). "I've always believed that Facebook should remain independent," he said, "and this platform confirms that belief." (One reporter asked how a layperson could differentiate Facebook from would-be buyer Yahoo; Mark sounded like he hadn't been watching Yahoo closely at all. As for competitors, Mark said that F8 has none.

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