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Search, Plus Your World, As Long As It’s Our World | John Battelle's Search Blog
The unwillingness of Facebook and Google to share a public commons when it comes to the intersection of search and social is corrosive to the connective tissue of our shared culture.
Jan 5 / 2:35pm
Google+ Is Going To Mess Up The Internet
I hate Google+. Can't stand it. It is agonizing to use. The stream is so noisy, it won't even bother me when the inevitable Google ads arrive. Culturally, it feels like walking into a religious school. It swarms with disciples of the + waiting for the messianic downfall of the Evil Internet, so that the One True Google+ is all that's left.
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Jul 12 / 5:11am
Facebook trapped in MySQL ‘fate worse than death’.
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According to database pioneer Michael Stonebraker, Facebook is operating a huge, complex MySQL implementation equivalent to “a fate worse than death,” and the only way out is “bite the bullet and rewrite everything.”
Not that it’s necessarily Facebook’s fault, though. Stonebraker says the social network’s predicament is all too common among web startups that start small and grow to epic proportions.
During an interview this week, Stonebraker explained to me that Facebook has split its MySQL database into 4,000 shards in order to handle the site’s massive data volume, and is running 9,000 instances of memcached in order to keep up with the number of transactions the database must serve.
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Jun 3 / 6:18am
Ah now THIS is interesting: ephemperal social networks via Secret Social
Social is not another word for Public.
Spontaneously invite people. Share your unvarnished thoughts. Leave no trail.
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Apr 28 / 5:03pm
New Company Promises to Give You a Pretend Facebook Girlfriend
Again, I swear I had this idea two years ago.
The new service allows users to create the perfect girlfriend who will write on your Facebook wall and otherwise make her ghostly presence known through social media.
via aolnews.com
