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Open Compute Mechanical System Design
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.
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 profile. Within this zip file you will have access to your data in a simple, browseable manner. Learn More about downloading a copy of your information.
(Source https://www.facebook.com/download/?h=db319bd981ca4f994719b05b89dcfb5c)
You can find this export tool via
Account > Settings
Download Your Information
HipHop: PHP to C++ transformer
Nice compiler Facebook developed and use for optimizing their web application.
HipHop for PHP transforms PHP source code into highly optimized C++. It was developed by Facebook and was released as open source in early 2010.
HipHop transforms your PHP source code into highly optimized C++ and then compiles it with g++ to build binary files. You keep coding in simpler PHP, then HipHop executes your source code in a semantically equivalent manner and sacrifices some rarely used features – such as eval() – in exchange for improved performance.
Facebook sees about a 50% reduction in CPU usage when serving equal amounts of Web traffic when compared to Apache and PHP. Facebook’s API tier can serve twice the traffic using 30% less CPU.
Twitter Annotations Are Coming — What Do They Mean For Twitter and the Web?
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In a nutshell, Annotations would allow developers (and Twitter itself, of course) to add additional information to a tweet — such as a string of text, a URL, a location tag or bits of data — without affecting its character count. In other words, such information would be metadata about the tweet or the user who posted it, and would be carried along as an additional payload as it traveled through the Twitter network. Apps and services could then collect that information and filter it or make sense of it. In some ways, Annotations are like Facebook’s open graph protocol, which also adds metadata to the behavior of users on certain sites when they’re logged in. Just as they are with Facebook, advertisers are interested in Twitter’s ability to help them target users based on their interests.
via Twitter Annotations Are Coming — What Do They Mean For Twitter and the Web?.
Facebook SDK for Android
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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 forms
(via: Facebook Developer Blog)
Free and awesome icon set for social services
Just searched for icons and found at komodomedia.com this nice and free set of awesome little icons for social online services like Twitter, Facebook, Last.fm and all the rest. The icons are available in 16×16 and 32×32 and look pretty shiny.
Download here: http://www.komodomedia.com/blog/2009/06/social-network-icon-pack/
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 within the latest version of AIM.
(via Facebook)
I wanted a cartoon character and got…
…a pain in the ass. Let me tell you this story.
I just saw this advertisement on Facebook:
and i thought: ‘hey, i want a cartoon character, too’ and clicked on the ad. What i got then was not an easy-to-use cartoon generator, but a weird page saying this:
By clicking “Click Here – It’s Free” below and downloading the Fast Browser Search toolbars, I accept and agree to make Fast Browser Search my default search provider, abide by the Fast Browser Search End User License Agreement and Privacy Policy, and receive relevant search results in response to misspelled or incorrectly formatted browser address requests. Tattoons only works on Facebook.
So i read the privacy policy and the license agreement and found things like this:
Further, MTWB reserves the right to use your: (i) Social Networking Site Information to serve you targeted marketing messages within the applicable Social Networking Site(s) and other online venues; and (ii) Site Data for tracking and, where necessary, verification purposes with MTWB’s third party partners.
So in addition to your character (i don’t know if you get one at all, ’cause i stopped the installation process) you will install a browser plugin which collects data and annoys you with marketing messages.
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Friends-privacy setting on Facebook
This is pretty weird:
I have a Facebook-profile and i have set my privacy setting for my friends-list to the value ‘Only friends’ …
…which should mean, that only friends are able to see my friends.
So i logged out of Facebook, called my profile page and voila, there are friends displayed. Does this make sense? I guess not! Except if all the users of the internet are part of my ‘Only friends’-group. :)
Update: Ok, finally i have found how to solve this redundant stuff. Facebook differs between ‘Profile page’ and ‘Search’. So in the search privacy page i can select what the people are able to see.
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Unfair treatment after FriendFeed deal?
Dave Winer criticized the behavior of the FriendFeed guys towards Robert Scoble:
For the last couple of years he’s committed himself to the success of FriendFeed. It’s really been awful to see how much he promotes it. All the time, as I watch, I’m thinking — “Those guys are going to screw him.”
[...]
All the effort he poured into FriendFeed is for naught. They sold to Facebook. In the announcements, no mention of the users, and certainly no mention of Scoble. Now would have been the time for them to tip him, throw him a few thousand. Or if not money, how about at least a hat-tip — an acknowledgement of the help they received from users, esp Robert Scoble. Nothing. They didn’t even give him the first interview.
Read the whole blog at scripting.com…
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