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Now Facebook's cooking. The social networking upstart has been poaching top talent from Google Inc. for months. The catch of the day is Executive Chef Josef Desimone, who is sure to win hearts and stomachs at Facebook by substituting its steam-heated buffets with the fresh, healthy gourmet fare for which Google became famous. "Joey has the chops," said Charlie Ayers, author of "Food 2.0: Secrets From the Chef Who Fed Google."

Scrabulous is back on Facebook, but with a new name and a different look. The Scrabble knockoff that was pulled from Facebook by its creators over a copyright and trademark dispute was brought back to life late Wednesday. It's now called Wordscraper. The game play is very similar to Scrabulous, aside from a few tweaks such as round letter tiles instead of square, a new point system and a few different ways of playing. Hasbro Inc.

Facebook Inc. co-founder Dustin Moskovitz is leaving the social networking start-up to form another, continuing the recent string of high-level departures. Moskovitz, 24, founded Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg, its chief executive, while both were students at Harvard. Moskovitz, who used to oversee engineering, plans to leave Facebook in about a month with Justin Rosenstein, a 25-year-old engineering manager who joined Facebook from Google in June 2007.

Everyone knows you on Facebook. The problem is, Facebook doesn't know you. At least that was V Addeman's problem when he tried to sign up for the social networking site. Recently laid off as a category analyst for convenience stores, Addeman, a 52-year-old grandfather from Costa Mesa who was already active on MySpace and LinkedIn, wanted another place to connect -- and reconnect -- with online friends. Addeman says he's well aware that his first name -- a single letter -- is unusual.

As the mastermind of Facebook.com, Mark Zuckerberg is sitting on a potential gold mine that could make him the next Silicon Valley whiz kid to strike it rich. But the 22-year-old founder of the Internet's No. 2 social-networking site also could become the next poster boy for missed opportunities if he waits too long to cash in on Facebook Inc., which is expected to generate revenue of more than $100 million this year.

Facebook.com is getting a face-lift to make the popular website's social networking features easier to find and use. Palo Alto-based Facebook also is introducing tools that will enable its users to learn more about their social networks and more easily conduct electronic conversations among multiple people simultaneously.

Buy.com Inc. on Tuesday will launch its Garage Sale service on the social networking website Facebook.com. It's intended to let users post and sell items on their profile pages. Unlike EBay Inc., which charges sellers a listing and final transaction fee, Buy.com is charging a flat 5% commission for items sold. Garage Sale users can't auction off items to the highest bidder, but Buy.com is looking into allowing users to haggle with sellers and read buyers' comments within the profile page, Buy.

Mark Pincus may hold a winning hand with his latest Internet venture. More than 130,000 Facebook users a day play an online version of Texas Hold 'Em that the San Francisco entrepreneur created at his kitchen table while his American bulldog, Zinga, slept at his feet. This is not the poker of smoky backrooms or illicit gambling sites but a free, friendly game at one of the Internet's hottest hangouts, Facebook. Chips serve as social currency: The more you win, the bigger the swagger.

albany, n.y. -- The social networking website Facebook has been warned that it could face a consumer fraud charge for failing to live up to claims that youngsters there were safer from sexual predators than at most sites and that it promptly responded to concerns, a spokesman for New York Atty. Gen. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday. "We expect an immediate correction eliminating the dangers exposed by our investigation," spokesman Jeffrey Lerner said.

Facebook Inc. on Tuesday ended an investigation by New York's attorney general by agreeing to changes designed to shield minors from pornographic images and improper advances from adults. The fast-growing social networking website promised to respond to complaints within 24 hours and to follow up within three days, said Atty. Gen. Andrew Cuomo and Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly during a news conference in New York.