Facebook Roundup: Lamebook, Egypt, Syria, Israel, Places, Google, Video and The Beatles

Facebook Backtracks on Lamebook Dispute – Lamebook, a parody of Facebook content which we wrote about here, sued Facebook so the social network wouldn’t sue them first for copyright infringement for using “book.” Then, Facebook blocked Lamebook’s fan Page, disallowed outbound links to Lamebook and disabled Like buttons to their content. Facebook then kind of realized that this sort of total control was a bit much and CTO Bret Taylor admitted to TechCrunch it was “mistake.”