Ryan Joy (atxryan) » Facebook

Pandas and Lobsters: Why Google Cannot Build Social Applications

atxryan — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:54:37 +0000

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 users, and when it launches a Facebook search engine, it will be the second biggest search engine in the world right out of the gate.
2. Twitter's search engine is bigger than Bing and Yahoo combined. Not only is Twitter doing 800 million searches a day, but apparently they're the fastest growing search engine in the U.S.
3. Bing actually seems to have a better relationship with Facebook and Twitter, and in addition, Bing has gone out of its way to partner with Amazon as well as Apple and its soon-to-be-100-million iPhone OS devices.

InfoQ: Facebook: Moving Fast at Scale

atxryan — Thu, 27 May 2010 20:44:14 +0000

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 because they introduce fewer bugs, the need to streamline to deploying process for short release cycles, and making the entire process faster every day.

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

atxryan — Wed, 12 May 2010 17:59:54 +0000

The Open Graph Protocol

atxryan — Mon, 03 May 2010 16:01:08 +0000

Social masseuse recommendations

Ryan Joy — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:22:19 +0000

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 social realized and it will only grow from here as more people utilize shared services and share their thoughts, insights, and opinions.

For the record, here are the referrals:

Todd Johnson of Energies Balanced
Erin at Austin Deep
Andrea at the Beauty Store in Bee Caves
Judith Stathos at The Joint
Nikky at Massage Envy on Westgate
staff at Yoga Groove

I’ll be making an appointment, in confidence, very soon!

Fuck more of your friends!

Ryan Joy — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:02:00 +0000

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

Facebook f8 – Attempting to change the online landscape…

Ryan Joy — Fri, 25 May 2007 14:26:19 +0000

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 serving it’s extensive network with third-party web apps from providers such as Amazon.com, Microsoft, Obama for America, and Warner Bros. Records.

According to Dan Farber, other developers at at the Facebook f8 launch include:

30 Boxes; All Widgets, LLC; Amazon.com; Attendio; Bitnik; Blue Nile; Box.net; Bunchball; Channels.com; Chumby Industries; CollegeHumor; Digg, Dogster Inc.; EF Tours; Ether; Fantasy Moguls; FASHION FOR THE PEOPLE; FeedBurner, Inc.; Fliptrack, Inc.; Forbes.com; FORD MODELS; Glimpse.com; HOT or NOT; Jangl; Jaxtr; Jobster; Lending Club; LocalPlatform LLC; Microsoft Corp.; MOG; Mosoto; Obama for America; Oodle; Photobucket, Inc.; Photojojo; Pickspal; Platial; Plum; Project Agape; Prosper.com; QOOP, Inc.; Radar; Rapleaf; Red Bull Energy Drink; RockYou!; Rupture; Scrapblog; Scribd; SideStep, Inc.; Slide; Snapvine, Inc.; SplashCast, Inc.; TERRALEVER; Twitter, Inc.; Uber; uPlayMe; Veoh Networks, Inc.; viagogo; VIRGIN MOBIL USA; Warner Bros. Records; Washington Post; Newsweek Interactive; Widgetbox; and YackPack.

Exciting stuff!