Nov 05

The CIA mines Twitter and Facebook

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It’s not surprising but, the CIA is mining the full stream of Twitter and Facebook messages from a special facility they’ve set up in Virginia. Read the details.

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Oct 29

How data informs the design process at Facebook

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Here’s a great video of Adam Mosseri, a designer from Facebook, talking about how Facebook uses data in the design decision making process.



And here’s a recap of the talk from Kissmetrics.

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Sep 03

IBM builds 120PB cluster of 200,000 hard disks

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IBM Research has developed a hardware and software solution to join 200,000 hard disks together into a single 120 petabyte storage cluster.  Here’s an article from ExtremeTech and here’s one from O’Reilly Radar with more details.  As of last year, Facebook had the worlds largest Hadoop cluster at 21 petabytes.  This IBM cluster is for a customer, likely a government agency.

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Aug 26

Open hardware

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Check out this VentureBeat article about Facebook open sourcing the hardware in their data center through the Open Compute Project.

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Jul 28

Facebook moves 30 petabytes of Hadoop data

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Strata describes the process Facebook recently went through to move 30 petabytes of Hadoop data from one data center to another.

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Mar 10

Facebook Insights – realtime analytics

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Mashable reports that Facebook’s Insight tool for publishers of Facebook plugins has received extensive updates. The updates allow publishers to now get realtime info on how their stuff is performing on Facebook.

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Sep 04

Facebook patents friend based search results

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The search results we see most everywhere are based on the systematic estimation of the relevance of the page. What Facebook recent patent specs out is the ability to determine and display the search results based on what a person’s friends or friends of their friends found relevant. Very interesting. Check out the Inside Facebook article for more, including what the impacts to competitive offerings like Google Me could be.

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Jul 29

Torrent of 100+ million Facebook users’ data available

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Another reason to check in on your Facebook profile security settings… A security specialist at SkullSecurity.com has created a torrent containing the public data for 100+ million Facebook users and is widely distributing it. While there’s nothing wrong with this since all the info is public, it does cause one to thing about what can be done with all the information that many users are exposing. Check out the Techcrunch article.

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Jul 31

Analysis of Facebook’s popular pages

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Facebook analyst, Cameron Marlow, published his work looking into what makes a facebook page grow in popularity. Here’s the article by InsideFacebook.com.

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Jun 01

Omniture announces new Facebook analytics tool

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Inside Facebook has a review of Omniture’s new tool for analyzing use of an application on Facebook. This new tool will give marketers insight into who is using their Facebook apps and how they share the apps with their friends. App Measurement for Facebook is an add-on to Omniture’s SiteCatalyst product.

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