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Facebook to lose $150 million next year (plentyoffish.wordpress.com)
11 points by hoan on Feb 16, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments



No matter how much money it makes, Facebook is a roach motel where your data goes to die.


What IS Facebook's underlaying technology? I Googled, but nothing substantial.


They'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.


pure sand


A sensationalist headline from a (lame) Facebook "competitor"... hmmmm.


Since when is plentyoffish a facebook competitor? You should read his blog - his insights are valuable.


Dating is a significant part of what Facebook is used for. They're definitely competitors.


There'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.




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