Facebook pour les entreprises. How Facebook fixed the site: they turned it off and on again. Literally | Technology. I found it, Mr Zuckerberg! Photo by Sir Mildred Pierce on Flickr. Some rights reserved Ever been on the phone to IT support and they told you to turn it off and then on again, and that sorts it out? Facebook last night had that sort of problem. So they turned the site off and on again. And it fixed their problem. Literally. As Robert Johnson, its director of software engineering, explained in a slightly shamefaced blogpost, the site was offline for about two-and-a-half hours – its worst outage in four years – due to some technical changes that Facebook had made. It wasn't only the site itself which went belly-up; the Like buttons (which connect back to Facebook) vanished on 350,000 sites too, and the API which powers its OpenGraph system had serious problems. The logistics of running a vast network like Facebook mean that you don't stick all your servers in a single place, of course.
Here's how Johnson explained it: In other words: something went wrong inside the circle. Back to Johnson: Facebook’s ambition. Ambition. It’s the one word that kept coming up in conversations I had around the halls today at Facebook’s F8 event. Whenever I heard that word it was clear we were talking about Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook. Compared to last week’s weak moves by Twitter, where its CEO barely even announced anything, yesterday’s moves by Facebook were huge.
OK, I heard another few words: “Visionary.” “Scary.” “Huge.” “Unbelieveable.” “Blown away.” “Zuck has balls.” or “Facebook has balls.” “Big moves.” Heck, listen to David Kirkpatrick, who worked for Fortune for more than 20 years and just finished a book, Facebook Effect, about Facebook. Listen to the words he uses: “This is not just another company, it is a transformational phenomenon.”
“It is really great, but it is really scary in some ways too.” By the way, after I talk with David I talk with quite a few other movers and shakers in the tech press in that video so you can get a sense of how we all reacted to the news. These are legitimate concerns. Facebook becomes the Internet's Social Glue. FACEBOOK BOMBSHELL – How DID EVERYONE miss this! #facebook #f8 | At 24.17 minutes into the presentation. I let out a “You’ve GOT to be F#$#$#$#$ kidding me” So I rewound it. No – they’re not kidding. My little marketers heart leapt with joy. First, A question. “When was the last time you updated your Facebook Profile” NO NO NO NO – not status updates, or photos or Farmville. Your ACTUAL profile – you know your favourite movies, books, likes, hobbies etc Yes – you’ve done this – you’ve probably forgotten about it, I mean with all those fields to tend in Farmville. You see, most people did this when they joined up and have not updated it since. I know I haven’t in ages – (I haven’t added in Justin Beiber for example in my favourite artists section… KIDDING!)
Next question (sorry I’m making you work hard but trust me – it’s worth it) “How does Facebook make their cash? Hint, it’s exactly the same way that google does… Pay per click advertising. But it’s VERY different pay per click advertising. It’s not based on a phrase that you type ala Google. Collectif Empire. Facebook Warns of New E-mail Scam [ALERT] Facebook May Share User Data With External Sites Automatically. Imagine visiting a website and finding that it already knows who you are, where you live, how old you are and who your Facebook friends are, without your ever having given it permission to access that information. If you're logged in to Facebook and visit some as yet unnamed "pre-approved" sites around the web, those sites may soon have default access to data about your Facebook account and friends, the company announced today. Barry Schnitt, Senior Manager, Corporate Communications and Public Policy at Facebook, told us in an email that "the right way to think about this is not like a new experience but as making the [Facebook] Connect experience even better and more seamless.
" There will be new user controls made available, but this is a new experience: this makes Facebook Connect opt-out instead of opt-in. The proposed change was first written about by Jason Kincaid on TechCrunch, who called it Facebook's Plan To Automatically Share Your Data With Sites You Never Signed Up For.