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Facebook Patents Developing: A Lawsuit From Mitel; More Patent Applications From AOL, Others

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The Mitel Networks suit, filed on March 16, 2012, in the U.S. District Court in Delaware, alleges infringement of two different patents, one for an “automatic web page generator” and another for “pro-active features for telephony.” They date from 1999 and 2007.

And two patent applications filed last week come from Compass Labs and AOL and respectively cover “user interest analysis and systems” and “content publication activity by a user.”

via Facebook Patents Developing: A Lawsuit From Mitel; More Patent Applications From AOL, Others | TechCrunch.

Most every site on the Internet, including this WordPress site, has its web pages generated automatically using a backend database.

Are Yahoo’s patents strong enough to topple Facebook?

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“What likely will happen in the short term is Facebook will make a decision as to whether it thinks this lawsuit is having a significant impact on its forthcoming IPO,” Patras said. “If it thinks it is having a significant impact then I suspect Facebook will come to a relatively quick license agreement with Yahoo to make this issue go away. If Facebook concludes it’s not having a significant impact they will fight on and get to the merits of these claims down the road.”

via Are Yahoo’s patents strong enough to topple Facebook?.

Facebook Becomes Location Backbone That Lets Apps Import Checkins From Each Other

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Facebook has confirmed with me that its new location APIs let any third-party app import and display the checkins as well as location-tagged posts published to Facebook by other apps. This turns Facebook into a location backbone that can power serendipitous meetups and other geo-functionality no matter which apps you and your friends use.

via Facebook Becomes Location Backbone That Lets Apps Import Checkins From Each Other | TechCrunch.

George Takei Helps Facebook Debug MySQL

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George Takei Helps Facebook Debug MySQL » Data Center Knowledge.

Wait – what was that last one? In today’s update on the Facebook Engineering blog, Mark Callaghan discusses the challenges in getting MySQL to scale on Facebook’s multi-core servers. The post provides technical insight into Facebook’s scalability initiatives, and then gives a shout out to Takei for helping resolve a database issue.

I have facebook blocked on my servers but will have to come back and look at the linked to blog entry.

Yahoo Stabs Facebook In The Back, Says Pay For Its Patents Or Get Sued

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Yahoo has long worked closely with Facebook, using the social network to power sign-up and login of its email service and Flickr. Just 11 days ago, Facebook congratulated Yahoo in a blog post noting its Open Graph protocol had helped Yahoo’s news reader app gain 25 million users, including 2 million each day, and more than 500,000 referrals a day. I doubt we’ll see such courtesies between these two anytime soon.

via Yahoo Stabs Facebook In The Back, Says Pay For Its Patents Or Get Sued | TechCrunch.

Beyond Facebook: The Rise Of Interest-Based Social Networks

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Interest-based social networks have a markedly different focus and approach than Facebook. The Pinterest, Thumb and Foodspottings of the world enable users to focus and organize around their interests first, whereas Facebook focuses on a user’s personal relationships. Facebook offers us a social utility to deepen social connectivity with our existing social graphs, while these new interest-based social networks enable users to express their interests in new, engaging ways and offer authentic, high value connectivity with new people we don’t already know. The different approaches of these interest-based services are distinct from Facebook, and they are powering the massive growth and engagement we are seeing in these new services.

via Beyond Facebook: The Rise Of Interest-Based Social Networks | TechCrunch.

Facebook stores up to 800 pages of personal data per user account

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If you live in Europe, then you have the right under a European data protection law to request a copy of all information stored about you on any given service. In the case of Facebook, you can demand such information via the Personal Data Requests form.

via Facebook stores up to 800 pages of personal data per user account | Geek.com.

Facebook is relatively new and the average person doesn’t value their privacy — thus, Facebook has been able to acquire a huge amount of personal information on each member.  Organizations might soon value privacy and see value in the data they generate,  in which case local highly available onsite (or perhaps offsite)   SANs will become a useful investment.  Associations without a central authority (i.e. Facebook) might become desirable.  It is however not feasible for an average person or small business to run their own web server.  They should, however, be in complete control over the data their web site generates.  Users of Facebook have no control over the dissemination of the data they and their connections generate.

Dell Loses Orders as Facebook Do-It-Yourself Servers Gain

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Hewlett-Packard, Dell and companies that sell the computers off the shelf are losing sales in a key market because Facebook and larger rival Google Inc. (GOOG) are leading a switch among Internet companies to do-it-yourself servers. These customized machines now account for 20 percent of the U.S. market for servers, which generated $31.9 billion globally in last year, said Jeffrey Hewitt, an analyst at Stamford, Connecticut-based Gartner Inc.

via Dell Loses Orders as Facebook Do-It-Yourself Servers Gain: Tech – Bloomberg.