It’s happening again. Hugely optimistic expectations of revenue for California didn’t materialize so Sacramento is scrambling to find some way, any possible way, to balance the budget. The state needs to find $3.3 billion by March to meet obligations. Lawmakers and the governor, as always, over-estimated revenue and under-estimated expenses. But now the bills [...]
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Robert Scoble tours the datacenter, which was built using Open Compute Project standards and best practices for energy efficiency. One of the most significant features of the facility was that Facebook eliminated the centralized UPS system found in most data centers. “In a typical data center, you’re taking utility voltage, you’re transforming it, you’re [...] No word yet on whether drop.io technology will make it into Facebook, which may have wanted the developers not the software. Pingdom has a fascinating, detailed article on the software Facebook uses to run what is now the world’s largest website, much of which is open source. How big is Facebook? They have half a billion active users, serve 570 billion page views a month, and over 1.2 million images a second. Hitwise Facebook reached an important milestone for the week ending March 13, 2010 and surpassed Google in the US to become the most visited website for the week. How to get your blog content onto Twitter, Facebook, and Friendfeed using free services. I had been using the excellent and free Twitterfeed to autopost to Twitter but just switched to WP to Twitter, a WordPress plugin. Here’s why. Twitterfeed reads the Polizeros RSS feed and takes about first 120 characters of new posts, [...] Battle lines are drawn for the war of web search dominance Facebook buys Friendfeed. Their real target is Google, not Twitter. Twitter vs. Facebook: Who will win in real-time search? Comparison of their search engine features. Because it’s all about search. Real-time search. Google doesn’t have that yet. Facebook now has 300 million users and [...] This is Facebook firing a shot at Google, not at Twitter. Twitter is mere collateral damage but Facebook knows the real money in real time is in search. FriendFeed has real time search. Google does not (although it’s bootstrapping there very fast, some of my FriendFeed items are showing up in Google within seconds [...] This is huge. Even if no one quite know what it means yet. Facebook says they do not want to disrupt FriendFeed, plan to incorporate FriendFeed ideas into Facebook, and then maybe look at integrating them. Distributed Denial of Service attacks on websites are an increasing pest on the Web, but the latest bunch this week had a bizarre, and disturbing twist: They were aimed at a single user’s web presence. Read on. |  | ||||
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