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Is Facebook Worth It? – Technology Review
via technologyreview.com “So you could think of Facebook this way: it is worth about $116 for every user it has. On that basis, the company isn’t being valued as highly as Google ($200 per user) or even the question-and-answer service Quora ($145)…
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Just how big are porn sites? | ExtremeTech
via extremetech.com “At peak time, YouPorn serves 4000 pages per second, equating to burst traffic in the region of 100 gigabytes per second, or 800Gbps. This is equivalent to transferring more than 10 dual-layer DVDs every second. On the software…
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Google can’t track every single click of your web surfing. Only most of them.
Google can’t track every single click of your web surfing. Only most of them.Posted by Matthias Gelbmann on 27 February 2012 in News, Blogger, DoubleClick, Google +1, Google AdSense, Google Analytics, Google ServersSummary: If you don’t trust Goog…
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Bitcoin’s comeback: should Western Union be afraid?
via arstechnica.com ” Bitcoin’s value as a way to move and store wealth depends on the value of Bitcoins being relatively stable against conventional currencies. And the continued value of Bitcoins depends on people finding nonspeculative uses for…
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Visualizing Individual CPU Utilization of a Large Scale Data Center – information aesthetics
via infosthetics.com “Server performance and system administration expert Brendan Gregg has posted a critical overview of some very interesting approaches to visualize device utilization, or the working efficiency of about 5,312 virtual CPUs (spre…
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Anatomy of Facebook
via facebook.com “First, we measured how many friends people have, and found that this distribution differs significantly from previous studies of large-scale social networks. Second, we found that the degrees of separation between any two Faceboo…