#Facebook trapped in #MySQL ‘fate worse than death’ - interesting comment

Facebook open sources live MySQL makeover - more free software love from the #Facebook team #bsd #mysql

what FB uses to power it's site

"Cassandra has seen some impressive adoption success over the past months, leading some to conclude that Cassandra is the frontrunner in the highly scalable databases space (a subset of the hot NoSQL category). Among all the attention, some misunderstandings have been propagated, which I'd like to clear up."

Rackspace on its investments in Cassandra

interesting project. need to keep tabs on this one.

a mention of my old colleague Dave in the JetBlue section, but also interesting demographics for the major social media sites

"I'm going to go out on a limb and say it: This is not as ridiculously huge of a deal as the Silicon Valley hype machine is going to have you believe.

wherein val asks some very relevant questions of Facebook

"For the last decade or so, the Web has been defined by Google's algorithms—rigorous and efficient equations that parse practically every byte of online activity to build a dispassionate atlas of the online world. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg envisions a more personalized, humanized Web, where our network of friends, colleagues, peers, and family is our primary source of information, just as it is offline. In Zuckerberg's vision, users will query this "social graph" to find a doctor, the best camera, or someone to hire—rather than tapping the cold mathematics of a Google search. It is a complete rethinking of how we navigate the online world, one that places Facebook right at the center. In other words, right where Google is now."

now isn't this interesting...

i'd love to see this, and it would make BrightKite relevant to a much wider audience of my friends.

my Greek is weak, but Aaron's nailing the growing importance of Facebook

don't agree with much here at all. the iPhone is a remarkable web interface, without question, but i would never choose it over a full size display.

usable, installable web applications. now. interesting.

"Ever come across one of those Facebook Platform applications that required you to spam a dozen of your friends with invites before you could access the results...? They're annoying. And now Facebook has done something about it" - finally

"But can information found behind Facebook's login wall be used as legitimate source material? It's a debate waiting to ignite" - i think the answer to the question is it will, regardless, but Caroline's right: it's an interesting question

"It's a good first step. But the road ahead isn't going to be a smooth one, and social-media enthusiasts hailing the age of "true interoperability" shouldn't hold their breath. This will take a while."

"So the question is, should Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail block Facebook (or close the accounts of anyone who uses Facebook's "friend finder") for violating their Terms of Use?"

i'd be more sympathetic if it wasn't Plaxo; while they've somewhat rehabilitated themselves from their spamming past, i still get far too many "reminders" from them

"Earlier this week, three OpenSocial partners--LinkedIn, Friendster, and Bebo--made their own platform announcements, and the only thing they could say for sure about OpenSocial was that they'd start implementing it as soon as it was ready and stable."

will be interesting to follow the impact of this particular announcement

i think the real question is how open will Facebook be forced to be? Facebook forced LinkedIn into an API, and now in turn will be forced to respond

Google's strategy for competing w/ Facebook and MySpace: commoditize the API, recruit the competitors of those two, press play

very funny Facebook spoof. which uses colorful language, in case you're easily offended

i'm not sure what they can reasonably store, but i'd be looking into music/photo backup if i were in their shoes. sooner or later some of the Facebook generation are going to discover that their digital bits are their single most valuable capital asset

"Facebook offers me irritating little choices, almost every day. I have a system for dealing with them." - this is more or less how i handle Facebook as well

"As I was telling a coworker the other day, why build something for Facebook when I can build it for the Web as a whole? There are reasons to do so, but I'll be sticking with the Web." talked about this on this week's Monkcast

Caroline on NPR talking about social networking: the callin guests are complete validation of the assertion that it's not a fad

meant to link to this before, but probably the best analysis of the Facebook API that i've seen by a large margin

specifics on memcached, including some really amazing anecdotal evidence; Facebook's using memcached on 3TBs of RAM? really?

talked to a young cousin this weekend who basically said the same thing: "i haven't checked my email in three weeks"

interesting insights into the behaviors of teenagers