"Robert(Scoble) is right, everyone's right, we should have done it, we could have done it, we didn't because I don't like conferences. Again, my bad, it's my responsiblity, I just didn't want to do it."
"Feel free to send me a message or email me if you want to bounce and ideas off of each other with Python or anything else, I get the impression we are both starting off on the same page"
That's App Engine for Business which is determined by "intranet users in your Google Apps domain." The service is free for a fixed quota set by App Engine, you pay extra for a billable quota, for resources used above the fixed quota.
The article was designed to provoke and it certainly did. This person fabricates a false blanket rule over the entire Facebook userbase by taking her own subjective experience and extrapolating.
"Yeah, because it's a $15 billion company (so they say) with costs that exceed revenue - and no signs of that ever changing."
To be fair, he'd always planned this to be temporary. In his podcast with Tim Ferris just a couple of weeks ago, he said he'd be stepping down pretty soon.