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By: Hongkie Town » Blog Archive » Beatlie Boys

Hongkie Town » Blog Archive » Beatlie Boys — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:46:18 +0000

[...] has this piece on Facebook’s struggles to keep up with user demand. The guess is that their electricity bill [...]

By: Pearls Before Breakfast » Blog Archive » Facebook and Renren reach profitability

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:55:25 +0000

[...] run rate basis, excluding capital expenditures which must be pretty substantial considering the amount spent on picture storage by an SNS, but hey, still a great milestone) Good job, [...]

By: Chonga

Chonga — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:19:37 +0000

exactly

By: Facebook Crosses 300 Million Users. Oh Yeah, And They Just Went Cash Flow Positive. | gakcity.com

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:48:11 +0000

[...] in April, we noted that while the company has been EBITDA profitable for several quarters in a row, they weren’t [...]

By: Facebook Crosses 300 Million Users. Oh Yeah, And Their Cash Flow Just Went Positive

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:02:13 +0000

[...] in April, we noted that while the company has been EBITDA profitable for several quarters in a row, they weren’t [...]

By: The Far Edge » Blog Archive » Phase 4 Of Facebook’s Systematic Attack On Twitter: The Everyone Button

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:18:04 +0000

[...] down to its core magic, you’d have Twitter’s real time news stream with a really expensive-to-maintain photo site bolted [...]

By: Phase 4 Of Facebook’s Systematic Attack On Twitter: The Everyone Button

Phase 4 Of Facebook’s Systematic Attack On Twitter: The Everyone Button — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:56:12 +0000

[...] its core magic, you’d have Twitter’s real time news stream with a really expensive-to-maintain photo site bolted [...]

By: Phase 4 Of Facebook’s Systematic Attack On Twitter: The Everyone Button | Cellphone Ultra

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:39:10 +0000

[...] its core magic, you’d have Twitter’s real moment news stream with a really expensive-to-maintain photo site bolted [...]

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I Have Seen the Future of Local Media | — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:28:39 +0000

[...] many “interactions” (a proxy for searches) happen in one month in Facebook and Twitter. This Techcrunch article gives us a better idea by indicating that “more than 850 million photos (are) uploaded [...]

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YouTube makes newspapers look like a good investment at Doug’s Blog — Fri, 29 May 2009 01:21:59 +0000

[...] And then there’s Facebook: Last year, TechCrunch reported that Facebook spends $1 million a month on electricity, $500,000 a month on bandwidth, and up to $2 million per week on new servers to keep up with its users’ insatiable photo-uploading needs. (Members post nearly a billion photos every month.) [...]

By: The Praized Blog » Blog Archive » I Have Seen the Future of Local Media

Wed, 20 May 2009 09:20:02 +0000

[...] (a proxy for searches) happen in one month in Facebook and Twitter. This Techcrunch article gives us a better idea by indicating that “more than 850 million photos [...]

By: Facebook Gets Three Times More Efficient At Finding Photos In Its Humungous Haystack | Reviews Manual

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:45:23 +0000

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By: Techeroid » Facebook Gets Three Times More Efficient At Finding Photos In Its Humungous Haystack

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:12:39 +0000

[...] With more than 15 billion photos (and 60 billion image files with replication for different sizes), Facebook eats up a lot of storage with its photo application alone. Members are adding members add 220 million new photos every week. Facebook currently has more than 1.5 petabytes of storage for its photos, and that is growing at a rate of 25 terabytes a week. Last year, Facebook spent an estimated $30 million on NetApp storage appliances alone just to keep up with the growth of photos and other uploaded content. To reduce some of these costs, Facebook decided to engineer its own storage architecture called Haystack. [...]

By: Trade Jim News » Facebook Gets Three Times More Efficient At Finding Photos In Its Humungous Haystack

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:51:35 +0000

[...] With more than 15 billion photos (and 60 billion image files with replication for different sizes), Facebook eats up a lot of storage with its photo application alone. Members are adding members add 220 million new photos every week. Facebook currently has more than 1.5 petabytes of storage for its photos, and that is growing at a rate of 25 terabytes a week. Last year, Facebook spent an estimated million on NetApp storage appliances alone just to keep up with the growth of photos and other uploaded content. To reduce some of these costs, Facebook decided to engineer its own storage architecture called Haystack. [...]

By: Facebook Gets Three Times More Efficient At Finding Photos In Its Humungous Haystack

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:40:23 +0000

By: User-generated content may have changed the Internet, but sites like YouTube are suffocating under the costs of storing it « winsty

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:10:22 +0000

[...] new servers to keep up with its users’ insatiable photo-uploading needs. (Members post nearly a billion photos every month.) But Facebook gets relatively little in return for storing all your memories. Ad rates on its [...]

By: UGC: User Generated Costs « Social Media Marketing

UGC: User Generated Costs « Social Media Marketing — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:21:11 +0000

[...] the same growth in storage and bandwith due to UGC from the now 200 million user base. Techcrunch reported that facebook is spending almost $1 million a month just for electricity. Questo post è stato [...]

By: Bandwidth doesn’t grow on trees « Raja Jasti’s Blog - Renaissance Thinking

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:03:43 +0000

By: Opinija. Žiniasklaidos kronikos » Blog Archive » Keli įdomūs skaičiai apie “Facebook”

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:27:26 +0000

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By: Web Scale « Streamy Development Blog

Web Scale « Streamy Development Blog — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:47:10 +0000

[...] they seem to finally have solved their photo storage cost issues with Haystack, saving them from needing to buy an additional $2M+ server every month just to keep up. The difference in architectures is well described in Niall Kennedy’s [...]

By: April 6, 2009 | next media update

April 6, 2009 | next media update — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:57:47 +0000

[...] Facebook Completes Rollout of Haystack To Stem Losses From Massive Photo Uploads FACEBOOK One nugget of information Facebook leaked out to press last week during the Gideon Yu fiasco: the company has been EBITDA profitable for five quarters, but doesn’t expect to generate positive cash flow until 2010. Why the discrepancy? There’s only one answer to that – Facebook is paying out big dollars for something that must be depreciated over time. If they could just write off the expense in full as they paid it they’d be having much bigger losses now that matched cash flow, and they’d hit profitability sooner. Source> [...]

By: Aleksey Korzun

Aleksey Korzun — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:19:13 +0000

True, but flicker caters to a completely different demographic (photographers) who have genuine interest in using their ‘pro’ service.

By: Marco

Marco — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:16:00 +0000

In six months they’ll have more photos than anyone else, and they already have almost five times as many as Flickr. A few years from now Facebook may be the one hosting photos for other sites. They’ll probably have enough money to buy Yahoo/Flickr in just a few years.

Photos are just more data. If Facebook doesn’t host the users’ data then what are they? A gigantic list of links to outside content? That’s not how the social network business model game is played. He who owns the data owns the customer. Why do you think people are beating on their doors to free the data, because they want to make money from data they don’t have to pay to host.

By: Marco

Marco — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:07:51 +0000

Facebook has like 200 million active users and is still growing very quickly. AOL peaked at 30 million users in 2000. That’s way more than enough to have access to capital markets even in this economy.

They’re changing out the CFO for someone who can take them public. After that they’ll have billions of dollars in the bank and could mismanage the company for ten years before they have any meaningful financial troubles. They do NOT need to worry about money, except how long it will take them to count it all.

By: Marco

Marco — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:58:43 +0000

EBITDA is basically earnings minus a bunch of big expenses like interest on loans, taxes, etc. If you borrowed a lot of money, and are selling the product made by equipment you bought with the borrowed money, your EBITDA is like what your earnings might be if you owned the equipment outright. Of course in real life you have to pay interest and taxes etc. – so it is not a very good measure of what’s going on. The idea of EBITDA is to show that once the loan is paid off, the business will be very profitable, but by then there will typically be new equipment to buy, so it’s not predictive of future earnings any more than it’s a clear indicator of present earnings. It’s a phony way to make earnings look better than they are. No wonder EBITDA is not GAAP.