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Twitter in the Movies

- What takes Bruno from 14.4 to 8.8 in 24 hours?
- The trend of Twittering is increasing
- Kevin Spacey explained to Dave Letterman
- Not the fact that both Oprah and Uma are on Twitter….
Uma Twitter
Oprah Twitter
Kevin Spacey Twitter
Placemark for David Letterman Twitter

Windows 7 is Done
- Win7, Server 2008 R2 hit RTM
- Doesn’t mean it’s ready to ship, just that it’s done
- No plans to push up release date
- October 22nd

Medical Marijuana? We got an App for that!
- Activists Justifying the Natural Agriculture of Ganja (AJNAG)
- $2.99
- Map will contain Doctors to prescribe, and Lawyers that Specialize in those lawsuits.

PSPGo Hands on
- Chad Sapieha met with John Koller – Sony Director of Hardware Marketing in North America
- Portable
- 16 GB SSD
- Slide out Joystick
- Bluetooth & Wi-FI
- Compatible with PS3 devices
- No UMD Disc slot. Download games only.

Being Laid off is Good.

- Skilled tech workers are hard to find.

- Silicon Valley lost 10,000 tech jobs in the past year, according to the state’s Employment Development Department,
- trend is expected to continue.
- Wired says that lack of loyalty has been a key driver of the Valley’s rapid innovation over the past three decades.
- You can skip from job to job, but watch out and don’t burn bridges.
- Facebook widgets, iPhone apps, Twitter tools, and cloud services are exploding – just ready for entreprenuerial talent.

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Josh Chandler is a regular contributor to Vator.tv. Recently, he wrote on the financial standings of Facebook. He has graciously offered it for Podcast conversion. If you have a blog or article that you would like featured on the Quickcast, drop me a line at 608-205-4378 or Geekazine at gmail dot com.

“Facebook spends between $20 million to $25 million alone on the space that houses its servers”according to reports from a recent InsideFacebook.com article, this comes as reports today from Techcrunch.com wrote that Facebook.com, the world’s most popular social network is receiving potential offer of a $200 million stake from Russian investment firm “Digital Sky Technologies“.

Now, it’s hard to tell where all this data consumption is taking place, one would suspect it is within the photo storage facility which receives 500GB of data every day, over 850 million photos every month. Back in April Facebook developers had to do a complete rewrite of the photo storage facility to implement a new storage standard called HayStack, which was supposedly 50% faster then any “traditional photo storage system”, Bobby Johnson, director of engineering at Facebook said in a ComputerWorld.com interview that “In terms of cost, if it’s twice as efficient, we can have 50% less hardware. With 50 billion files on disk, the cost adds up. It’s essentially giving us some [financial] headroom”

The hardest to imagine and most unrealistic part of Facebook’s data operations, is that they don’t even own the infrastructure,they lease space from Digital Reality Trust and DFT, which obviously has caused sharp increases in costs, as the user base has grown. DataCenterKnowledge.com showed the key data towards Facebook’s costs.

Facebook pays $10.9 million a year for 114,000 plus  square feet of space in two Silicon Valley data centers (leased out by Digital Reality). Rackspace recently said in an SEC filing that it is paying about $5 million a year for server space in the same data warehouse as Facebook.

With all these absurd investment opportunities that Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook seems to be adamantly rejecting, where do you think the buck stops before the likes of Chamath Palihapitiya, VP of Growth, Mobile and International at Facebook step in and tells Zuckerberg directly  that they need some money before things get out of hand. Something tells me, based on the kind of person Mark Zuckerberg is like, it wouldn’t be the case.

Whether or not Facebook accepts ANY money in the near future, there will always be a sense of gratitude towards one certain individual who joined Facebook.com with a very religious based Facebook App, which will certainly keep investors knocking at the door for some time.

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“No one gets left behind! No one gets left behind! Outstanding soldier!” Frank (Steve Carell) – Little Miss Sunshine (20th Century Fox – 2006)

There are slightly more than six billion people on the planet.Not everyone is connected as those folks in the Silicon Valley areas of the world.We have about 15 +/- percent of the adults who work on systems/devices, creating stuff, collaborating, sharing content/information and even blend the devices into their social networks and entertain.

They buy newer/better/more devices every 3-6 months.

Then we have another 15 +/- percent who use the basic mobile device applications – email, phone, photo/video exchange, use the web for productivity and creativity.They upgrade or add devices every 6-12 months.

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