crunchgear.com - 10/16/2008
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Doug Beaver over at a Facebook Engineering blog casually mentions that they have just had their ten billionth photo uploaded . Not only that, but since they keep 4 copies of each in different sizes, that’s 40 billion files just for the photos. Then he drops these little nuggets:
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nypost.com - 10/17/2008
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nypost.com —
Posted: 4:39 am October 17, 2008 Facebook boss
Mark Zuckerberg is plotting a possible push into the...
digital-music business in the wake of MySpace's launch of MySpace Music last month. The surging social-networking giant is talking to a number of ...
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FRIENDS OF THE BAND - New York Post
facebook.com - 10/15/2008
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facebook.com —
Facebook Names Top 25 fbFund Recipients Seed Fund
Helps Entrepreneurs Grow on Facebook Platform and Across the...
Web with Nearly $2 Million in Grants, as well as Mentorship and Marketing Resources PALO ALTO, Calif., October 15, 2008 – Twenty-five ...
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news.cnet.com - 10/15/2008
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news.cnet.com —
Facebook might not be a photo-sharing site, per
se, but there are a heck of a lot...
of pictures uploaded to it. On Tuesday night, engineer Doug Beaver wrote a blog post announcing that the total count of photos on the site now stands at about 10 ...
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Facebook hosts 10 billion photos
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Facebook hits 10,000,000,000 photos and counting
Newlaunches.com —
... to the site every day * They have just over one petabyte of photo storage * They serve over 15 billion photo images per day * Photo traffic now peaks at over 300,000 images served per second To celebrate, we got a bunch of cupcakes and handed them out to our engineering and operations groups. One of our engineers calculated that if we had gotten one cupcake for each of our photos, and lined them up side by side, the line could reach halfway to the moon. [ Facebook via Crunchgear ]
Facebook Photos Pulls Away From The Pack
TechCrunch —
... If Facebook has one standout application it has to be Photos. Measured on its own, it is the largest photo site on the Web. A full 69 percent of Facebook’s monthly visitors worldwide either look at or upload photos, based on comScore data. And more than 10 billion photos have been uploaded to the site. ...
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