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Pandas and Lobsters: Why Google Cannot Build Social Applications

And three reasons why Google should be concerned:

1. Facebook serves 3 billion LIKE buttons a day, serves one-sixth of all U.S. ads, has more traffic than Google or the next 99 sites combined, has 100 million mobile users and five times as many web…

InfoQ: Facebook: Moving Fast at Scale

Robert Johnson discusses Facebook’s approach to scalability issues resulting from a large growth of the user base. He talks about: why one needs to prepare for horizontal and not vertical scalability, very short release cycles which are better becaus…

Facebook’s Open Graph Protocol from a Web Developer’s Perspective

The Open Graph Protocol

Social masseuse recommendations

Austin: I need a good rec for a good masseuse. Pros only; no students or pinched nerves. I’ve got a terrible knot under my shoulder blade. – 4:55 PM Mar 18th Six reputable masseuse recommendations in 20 minutes. These are from people whom are local and whose opinion I value. This is the power of [...]

Fuck more of your friends!

I saw this on my Facebook mini-news feed today.

Facebook f8 – Attempting to change the online landscape…

I’ve told anyone who would listen for some time now that Facebook was the future in social networks. It’s underlying technology blows away anything MySpace or Bebo brings to the table. LinkedIn is a more comparable site. Now Facebook has announced their new online platform strategy, f8, which seeks to approach an online operating system [...]