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This is an interesting story. When faced with a monumental monitoring task with a huge data set (big data probably isn't an adequate term), Facebook engineers developed a tool to help them monitor and keep up with the data in real time -- and most importantly help them understand why they were seeing whatever performance problems they were detecting.
Read my full post on the Real User Monitoring blog.
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Facebook's current search tool is awful. Instead of trying to conquer web search, it would be better off making it easier to find your friends and content you have previously posted -- and leave web search to Google.
Read my full commentary on FierceContentManagement.
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Bill Gates and his wife Melinda work tirelessly to help the world's poorest citizens. I hope other tech billionaires are paying attention. Mark Zuckerberg who will reportedly be worth in the neighborhood of $28 billion after this week's Facebook IPO should use the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation as a role model.
Read my full commentary on Internet Evolution.
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Did you think that Facebook email you deleted was actually deleted forever? Think again. Turns out Facebook is hanging onto everything you've ever touched forever.
Read my full commentary on Internet Evolution.
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What's happening right now on Wall Street echoes in many ways what happened last Spring in Egypt, especially the way that social media is driving the movement, even while internal mainstream traditional media ignores it.
Read my full commentary on Internet Evolution.
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Facebook is a hangout, while Google tends to be a tool box you use as needed, so comparing the amount of time spent on each site (or sites in Google's case) is not exactly a fair comparison in my view, especially when you consider that Facebook's income remains a fraction of Google's, and that's the most important number.
Read my full commentary on Internet Evolution.
In spite of its considerable flaws, a new study finds we can't get enough of Facebook, but I'm hoping Google+ has the chops to make a serious run at it.
Read my full commentary on Internet Evolution.
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With Google Plus, it's time to start taking Google seriously as a social networking competitor.
Read my full commentary on Internet Evolution.
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Even as the pressure mounts on US regulators to approve the merger, I have a better idea: 4G network sharing while keeping the competition in place.
Read my full commentary on Internet Evolution.
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Facbook hired a 25 year old 3 years out of J School to be its media ambassador. I don't want slam a kid for being 25, but a job like Facebook Media Ambassador calls for someone with more experience and seasoning or veteran journalists will eat him alive.
Read my full commentary on Internet Evolution.
