In case you were wondering, Safari and Opera called in sick that day.

Source

Browser Wars Illustrated originally appeared on ajb{log} on June 27, 2011. Tweet This

How I wish 3 of those go away. Like, right now.

My Life as a Web Developer originally appeared on ajb{log} on October 20, 2010. Tweet This

Hope it’s useful to IE8 users.

FriendFeed IE8 Accelerator originally appeared on ajb{log} on May 14, 2010. Tweet This

Yes you are reading that right, Facebook is bigger than Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Turkey combined in terms of population. Facebook has a staggering count of 150 million users according to Mark Zuckerberg (Founder, Facebook).

Country population breakdown:

Turkey – 71,892,808
Canada – 33,515,000
Australia – 21,468,700
New Zealand – 4,280,000
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Total 131,246,508*

That, my friend, is really impressive! It makes you wonder how they keep their systems running smoothly, how they scale up rapidly.

Facebook has more than 10,000 servers and leverages mostly open-source software across a distributed architecture, with thousands of MySQL instances. “It’s almost a new challenge every day,”

Jonathan Heiliger (Vice President of Technical Operations, Facebook)
CNET interview

That’s not the only thing, Facebook has more than 10 billion photos! Some additional stats:

• 2-3 Terabytes of photos are being uploaded to the site daily
• Over one petabyte of photo storage
• Serving over 15 billion photo images per day
• Photo traffic peaks at over 300,000 images served per second

Truth is, impressive is an understatement.

*Source: Wikipedia

Facebook is bigger than Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Turkey combined originally appeared on ajb{log} on January 8, 2009. Tweet This

Let’s take a look how many pages at NETTUTS are indexed. Note that this will vary from one location to another, as well as ISP used and nearest datacenter used by Google (I’m currently testing this in North America and the count is going to be variable and approximate).

Let’s hit “site:nettuts.com” at Google. They have approximately 588 indexed pages. Now let’s see how many backlinks they have. Let’s hit “link:nettuts.com“. They have approximately 1,400 links going back to them.

The numbers above are not really that much. However, what matters here is when you look at their RSS feed subscriber count, they have 14,400.

So, what’s the point? Sites like NETTUTS still proves that content is king. It doesn’t matter 100% how many pages of your site are indexed at Google, what’s really important is that you deliver quality content to your visitors.

The rest follows.

NETTUTS Proves Content is Still King originally appeared on ajb{log} on December 2, 2008. Tweet This

Friendster on the other hand, the most popular social networking site in the Philippines may be losing its steam after more than 2 days of downtime due to a data center power outage in Santa Clara, California. You just can’t seem to wonder how did Friendster allowed itself to be offline? Was it because it had a single point of failure? Having one data center housing more than 85 million users? Could a data mirror in Asia have helped since most of their active users are there?

In any event, Multiply just got a strong partner in the Philippines – media giant ABS-CBN. But will Multiply be able to grow their user-base in the Philippines with the help of ABS-CBN and overtake pinoy-favorite Friendster? The answer to this question might be sooner than later.

What are your thoughts?

Sources: Business Mirror, ABS-CBN

ABS-CBN Acquired Minority Stakes In Multiply.com. Friendster Losing Steam Over Two Day Outage originally appeared on ajb{log} on November 17, 2008. Tweet This

Tad Donaghe started a simple spark posting a photo and a simple instruction “Take a picture of yourself right now. Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair – just take a picture. Post that picture with NO editing. Post these instructions with the picture.” and guess what happened? It just spread like wildfire! Boy, it was a fun day at Friendfeed!

Here’s the photo that started it all:

And the rest followed…

(Click on the above image for the original size or you can visit the album here)

So, are you in this collage? I hope you are! Because we had a lot fun today at Friendfeed!

It was also a good day to push and leave the FriendFeed Beta!

:)

UPDATE: Collage updated

Tad’s Meme on FriendFeed originally appeared on ajb{log} on September 18, 2008. Tweet This

How? All the video links have changed to http://youtube.com/v/FPd4yk0x-eg.swf now for you to watch it you’ll have to copy the video code (ex “FPd4yk0x-eg”) and paste it on a URL changing it to http://youtube.com/watch?v=FPd4yk0x-eg for it to work.

Youtube team must have forgotten this particular RSS feed when they updated something.

I also noticed a new button on the video player window. Not sure what it is though. See below. This must be the latest update that broke all things up at the RSS feed.

Youtube’s Top Viewed Today RSS Feed Is Totally Broken originally appeared on ajb{log} on September 10, 2008. Tweet This

So how do you drop an “o” at Google? Just append “&num=100&start=990” without the quotes at the URL after any search.

Google will surely drop one “o”. I wonder why?

Credits

Drop An "O" At Google originally appeared on ajb{log} on September 5, 2008. Tweet This

I don’t know who they are but they are streaming live right now from New Orleans.

So, if you want to know what is happening at that part of the world, logon to their stream now and join the stream.

Just be safe guys and the rest of you out there at the path of Gustav.

Three Guys And A Hurricane On HurriCam originally appeared on ajb{log} on August 31, 2008. Tweet This