1. Social Networking By Andrew Mancino Professor Wendorholm 5/1/11

2. Facebook Background  Created by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004  Originally “thefacebook.com  Meant for adding photos, connecting with friends, and getting to know new ones.  First designed for just college students.  Movie “Social Network”

3. Facebook’s Technology  Relies on 200 memcached (memory catching) servers for storing.  Signed an agreement with DuPont Fabros Technology for 10,000 square feet of space of server storage.  SQL to “FQL” allows 3rd party applications to look at your page and see what fits you.  Servers powered by Intel.  Prineville, Oregon

4. Facebook’s Statistics  Over 500 million active users.  On averages 250,000 new accounts per day.  Also largest image sharing network.  “Social” or “Business”.

5. MySpace Background  Founded by Tom Anderson in 2003.  Targets the teen demographic.  Easy to customize your entire page.

6. MySpace’s Technology  Uses DNS Server, so when domain is sent, less cluster and slow-down.  For apps like emailing or chatting through MySpace, dragonblue.NET is used as an application server.  20-terabyte server used to upload songs, images, ect.

7. MySpace Statistics  125 million active users. (much less than Facebook).  Numbers have been dwindling for years.  Why is this?  MySpace hitting panic button?

8. Twitter  Three founders Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey.  2006-2007.  Different, yet similar to MySpace and Facebook.

9. Twitter’s Technology  Uses REST, Representational State Transfer to design the site.  Also uses Web Syndication Formats, which is what takes your “Tweet” and send it to all your followers.

10. Twitter’s Statistics  460,000 new accounts per day (highest out of 3)  106,000,000 active users.  On average, 55 million tweets a day.  456 TPS (Tweets Per Second) on the day of Michael Jackson’s death.

11. Quick Interview Caitlyn Trimble  When did you have a MySpace?  I stopped in junior year.  Whys that?  I started using Facebook more.  What is it about Facebook that you like more?  I like that Facebook isn’t all about how cool your page looks. Its more about you. Not as childish.  When did you make your own Twitter?  Over last summer.  Which of all of the Social Networking do you like the most?  Facebook because the statuses are like twitter, and like I said earlier, its more mature than myspace.