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Facebook to lose $150 million next year
- tlrobinson 19y agoA sensationalist headline from a (lame) Facebook "competitor"... hmmmm.
- rrival 19y agoSince when is plentyoffish a facebook competitor? You should read his blog - his insights are valuable.
- staunch 19y agoDating is a significant part of what Facebook is used for. They're definitely competitors.
- rrival 19y agoThere's some overlap, but I don't think either company would suggest that, unless they did so in the broad sense of competing for a user's time on the internet. I'd be interested to see stats on dating on FB though.
- henning 19y agoNo matter how much money it makes, Facebook is a roach motel where your data goes to die.
- zecg 19y agoWhat IS Facebook's underlaying technology? I Googled, but nothing substantial.
- eusman 19y agopure sand
- staunch 19y agoThey're running a massive web app. That means they have all the usual stuff any site would need. I imagine it's mostly just a matter of adding enough servers to handle their growing load. They must do quite a bit of data crunching as well. Their third party app infrastructure must be quite significant. They're proxying and processing huge amounts of traffic. Almost certainly doing it with a custom server app that's probably quite interesting technically. A huge portion of that $150M must be going towards network infrastructure (where it's damned easy to spend millions) and datacenter space/power, etc.