To begin with, let me confess that i don't use Facebook as often as I should. I am one of those who believes in meeting people face to face rather than clicking on "Like"or "Check-in".
However Facebook connects me to so many long lost friends who would have been otherwise untraceable or unreachable. This is good enough reason for me to "Hangout" on Facebook (Pun intended on Google).
Also its much easier to keep in touch with latest updates from Friends without having to travel huge distances or taking exclusive time off to connect.
But these are not the main reasons for me to like Facebook, I like Facebook for the technology under its hood and the scale of its operations. And for the fact that this company is driven/run by techies at its core which explains the technological innovation and also the ethos behind it drive to adopt/contribute to the open source community. I particularly like the fact that it faces the scale/technology challenges head-on and that this is done through open source software. Although because of this scale/rapid innovation there are other issues around security, business model etc which is topic for another post.
The article below takes a peek at the software behind Facebook. Hop on aboard and enjoy the ride:
http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/06/18/the-software-behind-facebook/
Cheers,
Guru
However Facebook connects me to so many long lost friends who would have been otherwise untraceable or unreachable. This is good enough reason for me to "Hangout" on Facebook (Pun intended on Google).
Also its much easier to keep in touch with latest updates from Friends without having to travel huge distances or taking exclusive time off to connect.
But these are not the main reasons for me to like Facebook, I like Facebook for the technology under its hood and the scale of its operations. And for the fact that this company is driven/run by techies at its core which explains the technological innovation and also the ethos behind it drive to adopt/contribute to the open source community. I particularly like the fact that it faces the scale/technology challenges head-on and that this is done through open source software. Although because of this scale/rapid innovation there are other issues around security, business model etc which is topic for another post.
The article below takes a peek at the software behind Facebook. Hop on aboard and enjoy the ride:
http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/06/18/the-software-behind-facebook/
Cheers,
Guru
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