Last week Facebook announced the Open Compute Project (Perspectives, Facebook). I linked to the detailed specs in my general notes on Perspectives and said I would follow up with more detail on key components and design decisions I thought were particularly noteworthy. In this post we’ll go through the mechanical design in detail. via Perspectives [...]
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Facebook’s Open Compute Project
Facebook just released Open Compute Project, their now-public datacenter and server design, optimized for situations in which hundreds or thousands of servers are needed such as the biggest websites and web-hosting companies. (via marco.org)
Downloading your Facebook data
I didn’t know this before: Facebook allows you to download all the data you’ve posted to it, including photos, messages etc. This tool lets you download a copy of your information, including your photos and videos, posts on your wall, all of your messages, your friend list and other content you have shared on your [...]
Facebook SDK for Android
Image via CrunchBase The Facebook SDK for Android broadens our support for mobile platforms, which also includes iPhone apps and mobile websites. You can begin integrating the following Facebook Platform features into your Android applications today: Strong authentication using OAuth 2.0 Making requests to the new Graph API Publishing stories back to Facebook via Feed [...]
Facebook Chat now supports Jabber/XMPP
As a developer, you can support Facebook Chat using the same underlying technology as other Jabber-based networks. You can integrate Facebook Chat into your own standalone chat client like Adium, iChat, or Pidgin. And with Facebook Connect, your users can easily authenticate with your chat client, like Meebo. AOL also announced support for Facebook Chat [...]
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