Archive for the ‘Social Networking’ Category

Running Hadoop on Windows

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

What is Hadoop? Hadoop is a an open source Apache project written in Java and designed to provide users with two things: a distributed file system (HDFS) and a method for distributed computation. It's based on Google's published Google File System and MapReduce concept which discuss how to build a framework ...

Serving the social graph and keeping the lights on: What Facebook and MySpace have in common with the power company

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Mashable has a post today discussing Facebook's 10% traffic decline from March to April as well as their year-on-year slowdown from 98% growth to 56% growth. This just adds to the recent meme of "Facebook kind of sucks" that has been going around for a while. For example RWW ...