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Reflections on the Open Compute Summit. Facebook Readies Its Next Huge Data Center « Data Center Knowledge. An aerial view of the huge new Facebook data center under construction in Rutherford County, North Carolina. Click to see a larger version. (Credit: Facebook). Facebook is moving ahead quickly on construction of its next huge data center. The $450 million project in Rutherford County, North Carolina will be the second company-built data center for Facebook, which just unveiled its first server farm in Prineville, Oregon. The North Carolina facility was announced in November 2010. Facebook has already completed the exterior structure for the 300,000 square foot building, and has cleared a nearby site where the company could build a second huge data center down the road.

Operational in 2012 The first phase of the Rutherford County project will be operational in the first quarter of 2012. Facebook says the North Carolina facility with be an energy-efficient data center, and employ many of the techniques used to conserve power at its Prineville site. Room to Expand. Who Belongs to the 2011 Open APIs Billionaires Club? Web APIs are growing both in number and in volume at an uabated pace. The ProgrammableWeb has toady 3200+ Web APIs in its directory and 5800+ mashups. John Musser who founded the site, noted in his talk at Glue that it took 8 years to reach 1000, 18 more months to reach 2000, and only 9 months to reach 3000.

These APIs can be found across a large spectrum of domains (financial, music, telephony, search, ... with Social, Mapping and Internet APIs being slightly ahead of the pack). What's even more amazing is the emergence of the "Billionaire Club", the companies that process billions of APIs calls. John reported an unofficial ranking: John also reported that there are 5 times more so-called "REST" APIs vs SOAP which he attributes to simplicity. 55% of all new APIs support JSON compared to less than 10% in 2006 and 20% of all the new APIs support only JSON.

He also noted that a new trend is emerging: For him, Web APIs have become business as usual, why wouldn't you have one? Facebook Acquires Mobile App Maker Snaptu. Facebook Office Tour and History - Facebook. Facebook is a social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves.

Additionally, users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region. The website’s name stems from the colloquial name of books given at the start of the academic year by university administrations with the intention of helping students get to know each other better. Lets watch some Facebook office tour videos first. Facebook New Office Tour HQ Tour By TechCrunch Inside The New Facebook Layout Facebook has met with some controversy. A January 2009 Compete.com study has ranked Facebook as the most used social network by worldwide monthly active users, followed by MySpace.

Mark Zuckerberg OMG! The advent of Facebook came about as a spin-off of a Harvard University version of Hot or Not called Facemash. The Facebook on February 12, 2004. Facebook: Science and the Social Graph.