DISQUS

Simon · 2 years ago

Facebook is to micro-web apps what eBay is to micro-retailers. I expect to see lots of micro-web apps appear that could not exist outside of Facebook.
leafar · 2 years ago

Ilike has break the 6m users milestone.
I agree about the website and further more about the recommendation engine. Take a look at this :
http://blogs.sun.com/plamere/entry/what_is_wron...
rob · 2 years ago

How much of that additional capacity could be handled, at least in the short term, by an on-demand solution like Amazon S3, etc?
Dimitar Vesselinov · 2 years ago

I believe Facebook will crack the code for social recommendation search/advertising. Google search is so 1999.
nic · 2 years ago

Thanks for the comments guys.

A couple of big analogies here! FB coming out somewhere between ebay and Google... Both arguments makes sense, I guess it a question of how far they go.

Re the S3 point - that is the answer on everyone's lips for the scalability problem. Andreessen makes the point that it can be expensive. I don't really know.

Raphael - good link - two thoughts - 1. this shows the power of distribution, and 2. I wonder if the 6m might come back down again almost as fast as it went up - and how many servers that would leave them with