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While Internet is an old technology, since it was first deployed in the U.S. in 1969, it was only in the 1990s, with the invention of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee and the privatization of the Internet by the U.S. Defense Department, that it became a mass medium. From 9 million users in 1995 it went to over 1 billion users in 2007.
- The Facebook Open Source Team
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Via VentureBeat's Jolie O'Dell: 'Some of Facebook’s open-source projects include Phabricator, a suite of web apps for code review, which Facebook uses for its own development; Cassandra, an open source distributed database management system; HipHop, which transforms source code from PHP to C++; the company’s Javascript optimization efforts, called ...
Kate Raynes-Goldie: "I think the best way to understand how Facebook has gone beyond being just a social networking site is to see how it has evolved from what we meant by social networking site in 2004. Facebook’s three big axes of change can be summarized in terms of access, audience and information the first two of which are closely intertwined....
Statistics, from Ryan Lanham: Recent numbers on Facebook's usage and growth: 1. There has been a staggering increase in the number of 55+ users – with total growth of 513.7% in in the last six months alone. 1. More than 1 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) shared each week (every statistic above is ...
Aral Balkan: "Facebook’s business model is to be the man in the middle; to track every move you, your family, and your friends make, to store all that information indefinitely, and continuously analyse it to understand you better in order to exploit you by manipulating you for financial and political gain. Facebook isn’t a social network, it is a s...
The Privacy issue: Facebook will never be safe
Jacob Appelbaum: "How to use Facebook safely Here’s the easy solution: don’t fucking surveil yourself! If you want to stay safe on Facebook, the answer is, you should not use it, and don’t tag people! There are benefits of using it, there are tradeoffs, but in the long run I think it’s going to be pretty bad that you gave a bunch of capitalists all your private information where the US government asserts and has the right to read it without a warrant and with the ability to gag the corporate....
Facebook as P2P Infrastructure?
Techdirt: "Mark Zuckerberg's letter to shareholders included in Facebook's IPO filing contains a pretty bold vision for Facebook to not just connect people and enable them to share, but to fundamentally restructure the way that the world works: - By helping people form these connections, we hope to rewire the way people spread and consume information. We think the world’s information infrastructure should resemble the social graph — a network built from the bottom up or peer-to-peer, rather t...
Openness
Glyn Moody: "Facebook is built on free software, as this post notes: From the day Mark Zuckerberg started building Facebook in his Harvard dorm room in 2004, the site has been built on common open source software such as Linux, Apache, memcached, MySQL, and PHP. Moreover, it has established a nice track record of releasing its own code as free software. There are now more than 20 packages it has opened up."(http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=2768)
Lines of tension between community and governance in Facebook, from Unit Structures blog athttp://chimprawk.blogspot.com/2007/11/were-not-sheep-youre-just-not-paying.html The delicious tag at http://del.icio.us/mbauwens/Facebook The Economics of Privacyat Facebook. 1. P2P Foundation on Facebook 1. the Europe vs. Facebook's campaign summary of what'...
Description. "Matrix is an open standard for interoperable, decentralised, real-time communication over IP. It can be used to power Instant Messaging, VoIP/WebRTC signalling, Internet of Things communication - or anywhere you need a standard HTTP API for publishing and subscribing to data whilst tracking the conversation history. Matrix defines ...
Pandora is a free peer-to-peer social network application. Pandora provides functions of instant messenger, audio and video chat, trading platform, commercial system, payment system, distributed development system, file exchange and vote system.
Free Code Chat Apps. Most people are familiar with proprietary chat apps like Skype, FaceTime, FB Messenger, WhatsApp, Hangouts, WeChat, and so on. Chat apps differ from email in that they are designed mainly for use by two or more people having a back-and-forth conversation made up of short messages (usually 1 or 2 sentences at a time), and ...
Messenger, ICQ) is closed. Another central feature of the weblog is that it is easy to operate because it does not require any technical or coding skills. Anyone — even computer newbies — can make a weblog building on existing templates provided by ...
2015年7月6日 · Definition. 1. "Mesh networks - are highly distributed networks which use special routing technology. In standard routing technology as used to send and receive information via the internet the 'routes' which data packets take are fixed. In mesh networks the software decides 'dynamically' or 'ad-hoc' which route data packets take.
