you don’t need to scale as big as facebook – really
Chris Sells posted this recently on twitter: Pingdom: Exploring the software behind Facebook, the world’s largest site. It’s a very interesting read. Some of the highlights: Facebook serves 570 billion page views per month (according to Google Ad Planner). There are more photos on Facebook than all other photo sites combined (including sites like Flickr). More than 3 billion photos are uploaded every month. …
Read MorePaywalls – The Times starts charging
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So, The Times (the UK one) has started charging for its content – the great paywall debate/debacle. To be honest, I dont blame them for doing this – someone has to pay for the content to be produced, and it should be a combination of reader and advertiser. The reader has had it free for a long, long time, and …
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