EXICON

I just read an interesting interview with Vice President of Engineering at Facebook Mike Schroepfer on Venturebeat and with Sheryl Sandberg, COO on Techcrunch

- 300M active users a month
Pretty large population….

- People spend 8 billion minutes online on Facebook every day.
Hence Facebook next to Youtube/Google being the top 2 destinations on the Internet

- There are 2 billion photos uploaded each month and 20 billion total.
Consumers want to share Images and Videos to stimulate conversation and interaction

- There are 15,000 other partners accessing Facebook data through its Connect service.
Identity is proving an important element. Facebook connect is now available for mobile sites too.

- Yesterday, the company serviced over 5 billion API calls. Facebook Platform is growing at a much faster rate than the web site.
The impact of Facebook opening their API’s in 2007 is still underestimated. Twitter for that matter too. This changed the economics of the web and is the “dawn of the application economy” to quote Mark Pincus, CEO of Zynga

- Facebook now has over a million developers working on its platform
The importance of building the developer ecosystem only encourages a platform, be it Twitter, Itunes, Android etc.

- 250 applications now have a least a million users each.
confirms the point above. But it’s important to provide developers transparency , tools and API’s and support with visibility and opportunities to make monetize

- Facebook’s multi-feed system that can calculate 50 million operations per second pulling data and updates from hundreds or thousands of friends and condense them into the 45 most interesting updates in between zero and 20 milliseconds.
Check out this site just to find out the infrastructure they have in place to support this….http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/20921/

- The company has 1.2 million users for every engineer

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