MIS 301 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Application Programming Interface, Social Graph, Mark Zuckerberg

• School: UT-Austin
• Department: Management Information Systems
• Course: MIS 301
• Professor: Professor Choi

Document Summary

Mark zuckerberg: tech savvy, harvard drop out. Facebook (fb) growth: two weeks after launch: 4,000 users, ten months: one million users, primary target was college students. More than likely will stay in control of the firm. By the time he reached out to vcs, fb was doing so well that he could give up very little for the money. Growth: 600 thousand one million users added every day from dec 2008- dec 2009. 35+ is the biggest group on fb, and fastest growing population too. Coming soon: ability to share posts = big deal, lots of info is private, dark web: sites that cannot be indexed by search engines, political. Can be used to lobby/create awareness of issues. How does it run: fb cloud (connected servers that power the site) Server farms in san francisco, santa clara, northern va, etc. Majority of code written in php, c++, java, python, ruby. Haystack: fb"s own media serving solution for photos.