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  • On why Facebook borrowed to buy hardware

    May 14, 2008

    Governance, Strategy
    Facebook
     

    Yesterday I queried the Facebook strategy of owning it’s own datacentre infrastructrue – especially given it’s (hoped for) growth and the prevalence of other scalable, cloud based third party hosting solutions. Henry Blodget asks another question in this post…

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  • Why would you do it?????

    May 13, 2008

    IT, Strategy, Web x.0
    Facebook
     

    I’ve just read that Facebook have just raised USD100mill all to “invest” in new servers. Apparently they’re going to move from the 10k current to 50k servers. Questions; 40k servers costing $100 million. That’s UD2500 per server. Sure there…

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  • MS considering a Facebook purchase?

    May 8, 2008

    Governance, IT, Strategy, Web x.0
    Facebook, Microsoft
     

    Right off the bat I need to admit that I’m in no position to second guess Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft. But reports in the last couple of days point to discussions between Facebook and Microsoft about an acquisition…

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  • Facebook chat is live!

    April 23, 2008

    Governance, IT, Strategy, Web x.0
    Facebook
     

    Just in time to watch twitter steal it’s thunder, Facebook has released it’s chat app. I’ve posted before suggesting that Facebook has already reached its zenith, chat may well stem the tide of defectors (after all im is a…

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  • Is Facebook just another meme?

    April 16, 2008

    IT, Web x.0
    Facebook, Microsoft
     

    I set up my Facebook profile nearly a year ago now. At the time it seemed like Facebook was going to adultise the Bebo/MySpace social networking space. It all went swimmingly for awhile there – my news feed showed…

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  • Google’s brain drain…

    April 3, 2008

    Governance, IT, Strategy
    Facebook, google
     

    A throwaway (but very funny) Fake Steve Jobs post this morning got me thinking about Google and it’s people. As this Wired article says, the brain drain from Google has been gaining momentum in the past few months. Even…

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