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. (more…)