Instagram Surpasses 100 Million Active Users
A new milestone for the popular photo-sharing application. Continue reading
Category Archives: Facebook
Facebook Dumping Your Old Photos into Cold Storage
Facebook’s Prineville, Oregon data center. If you’re a longtime Facebook user, chances are pretty good that you uploaded some photos to the social network that you haven’t actually viewed in years. And you’re not alone: Facebook stores hundreds of billions of photos, with hundreds of millions uploaded every day. Facebook’s apparently decided on a solution to that immense problem: Continue reading
The Cloud’s Dirty Little Secret
While cloud storage is able to reduce its price slowly over time, consumers are increasing their storage demands on a near-geometric scale. Continue reading
Facebook Broke the Internet
A weird thing happened on Thursday night. Anytime you clicked on a link — or most of the time anyways — some strange Internet force directed you to an error page on Facebook. The URL is full of weird randomly generated code, but it’s definitely a Facebook page. You can even check your notifications even though you didn’t even want to visit Facebook. No, this is not a conspiracy. In all likelihood, it’s a bug that will be fixed within the hour. (Unless, it’s not, in which case things will get very interesting. … Continue reading
Why Twitter Is Buying Bluefin — And Why Bluefin Is Selling
Twitter gets research firepower to help sell to advertisers and programmers. Bluefin gets an exit in what turned out to be a tough market. Continue reading