Facebook to lose $150 million next year(plentyoffish.wordpress.com)
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Facebook to lose $150 million next year
http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/facebook-to-lose-150m-next-year/
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No matter how much money it makes, Facebook is a roach motel where your data goes to die.
What IS Facebook's underlaying technology? I Googled, but nothing substantial.
They're running a massive web app. That means they have all the usual stuff any site would need. I imagine it's mostly just a matter of adding enough servers to handle their growing load. They must do quite a bit of data crunching as well.
Their third party app infrastructure must be quite significant. They're proxying and processing huge amounts of traffic. Almost certainly doing it with a custom server app that's probably quite interesting technically.
A huge portion of that $150M must be going towards network infrastructure (where it's damned easy to spend millions) and datacenter space/power, etc.
Their third party app infrastructure must be quite significant. They're proxying and processing huge amounts of traffic. Almost certainly doing it with a custom server app that's probably quite interesting technically.
A huge portion of that $150M must be going towards network infrastructure (where it's damned easy to spend millions) and datacenter space/power, etc.
pure sand
A sensationalist headline from a (lame) Facebook "competitor"... hmmmm.
Since when is plentyoffish a facebook competitor? You should read his blog - his insights are valuable.
Dating is a significant part of what Facebook is used for. They're definitely competitors.
There's some overlap, but I don't think either company would suggest that, unless they did so in the broad sense of competing for a user's time on the internet. I'd be interested to see stats on dating on FB though.