I jus saw this post and while I cannot vouch for the accuracy, I can say that it’s very believable.
Facebook has:

100 Million users
10,000 servers
500 million photos per month
6.6 billion photos total
25,000 applications
140 new applications are added per day
25 terabytes of cached data available

That’s impressive. And people complain when Facebook is just a little slow. Really? [...]

It sounds ambitios I know. And I do not intent to do it all by myself. I’m slowly recruiting an army of bloggers to help me build the largest collection of Wordpress Themes on the Internet.
I have a couple more days before I launch the site. So make sure you don’t miss it.
Grab my RSS [...]

A shout out and welcome to trishalyn.com, Elitebloggers latest sponsor. Check out her site, lots of very usefull stuff. You can also follow her on Twitter @trishalyn

I’m busy implementing Sharepoint Services for a client at the moment. I’ve always been in favor of web-based apps. And this is a nice Microsoft solution that will do the job. I have two requirements, and Sharepoint addresses both very nicely.
Firstly, we need a central file server. We don’t have a lot of files, but [...]

If you have a look at the right sidebar on EliteBlogger you’ll see a FriendFeed widget.
I stumbled across it today and I think it’s pretty nifty. Shows all my FriendFeed updates, in a nice little iFrame.
Creating the widget is a snap, and putting it on your blog is even easier.
You can get it here: http://randomwalker.info/ffembed/v1/

I’m helping a client at the moment build an E-Commerce application. After 4 years of development and a nice hefty price tag, the client is left with a system that is barely functional.
I stepped in as project manager at the end of last year, but I think it was too little too late. All is [...]

A few years ago when I started my on-line life, I signed up for dozens of marketing news letters. Every one promised me online riches in no time at all.
4 years later I have unsubscribed to more newsletters that I every subscibed to in the first place. How that happens I don’t know.
And I still [...]

I read and article on Smashing Magazine a while ago and thought it was brilliant. It’s related to web-design and I thought I’d apply them to blogging.
1. Don’t make users think.
When a visitor visits your blog for the first time, what’s the experience they get? Do they know what your blog is about? Are your [...]

Toldya is an Ad Network with some pretty big names in their inventory. They create shopping type ads that work well on sites that deal with gadgets and the like.

The have a publisher and an advertiser section. It’s free to join, and you get accepted immediately. So they are out of beta.
The widgets have a [...]

Next month Wordcamp is coming to Cape Town. I’m looking forward to getting together and meeting a lot of people that I have come to know online over the last year.
It seems that they have finally sorted out their venue, and you can register for the event.
This, seriously, is not to be missed. If you’re [...]