Social Platform Proximity: Follow-up

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

Don't move your servers to California just yet. It looks like Facebook is expanding to the East Coast. GigaOM posted an entry about Facebook securing 10,000 square feet of data center space in Virginia. If your performance requirements are critical you may still want to consider the move because I ...

Social Platform Proximity

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

Proximity is everything. If you're a media technology startup and you're looking for investment, NYC is the place to be. The same logic holds true for social platform applications. From a technical standpoint, the anatomy of a Facebook platform request is: User makes a web request to Facebook Facebook inspects the request and ...