As part of the deal, Goldman will reportedly invest $450 million in Facebook and Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian investment firm which already has a substantial stake in the social network platform, will invest another $50 million, but that is only stage one. In stage two, according to Dealbook, “Goldman is expected to raise [...]
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I remember a VP from Facebook commented to me in person about how it’s frightening for them to give the data to 3rd parties – because people can do nefarious things with the data. … which is what people are worried about with Facebook. Oh the irony. But this is a good example of the [...]
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At Spinn3r we frequently deal with the chaos revolving around robots.txt so I thought I would throw few thoughts out there about the complexity of the issues involved here. REP is not a EULA This is part of the confusion around robots.txt. It’s not really clear that just because you can fetch a URL that [...]
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Tagged: facebook, rep, robots.txt, spinn3r
Facebook is still leasing data centers and is apparently spending $50M per hear excluding servers: An analysis of Facebook’s spending with data center developers indicates that the company is now paying about $50 million a year to lease data center space, compared to about $20 million when we last analyzed its leases in May 2009. [...]
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Apparently, Digg performed a big migration from MySQL to Cassandra and a big migration to their new Digg v4 architecture and now their VP of Engineering has been shown the door: Ever since Digg launched its new site design, it’s been plagued with all kinds of trouble, not least of which is that it keeps [...]
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Tagged: bigtable, cassandra, digg, facebook, hadoop, mysql, voldemort
Well my theory was right. Facebook blocked API access to Apple for an API that is normally open. This is what I said just a few hours ago: If you want to use them at SCALE or have a serious application (like Apple) these companies want you to execute custom terms of service to prevent [...]
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Facebook crawls your like button enabled web pages which can include FBML. Which is super cool of course. It’s cool that Facebook is crawling the web. When does Facebook scrape my Page? “Even if you specify a longer time, Facebook will scrape your page every 24 hours.” The user agent of the scraper is: “facebookexternalhit/1.1 [...]
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Tagged: facebook, socialmedia, twitter