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Links: 11-27-2009

• Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Real-time, Distributed Conversations: Some Thoughts on the Salmon Protocol
  More on Salmon.
  (categories: realtime salmon comments commenting facebook protocol )

• Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Facebook Seattle Engineering Road Show: Mike Shroepfer on Engineering at Scale at Facebook
  Stats from the road show: Average number of friends per user is 130, Total number of Facebook applications is 350,00, It is the number 1 Photo Site on the Web, More events are created on the site than on Evite per day, People spend 6 8 billion minutes per day on Facebook which makes it the number 1 site on the Web according to many measurement services including Nielsen and ComScore, The fastest growing demographic is users aged 35 and older., The page with the most fans is Barack Obama with 6.8 million fans, The TV show with the most fans is South Park., 70% of their users are outside the United States of America
  (categories: facebook scalability architecture scaling )

• John Resig - Deep Tracing of Internet Explorer
  dynaTrace Ajax works by sticking low-level instrumentation into Internet Explorer when it launches, capturing any activity that occurs - and I mean virtually any activity that you can imagine. I noticed very little slow down when running the browser in tracing mode (although it’s sometimes hard to tell, considering the browser). However all of the tracing is recorded and saved for later, making it easy to record sessions for later analysis.
  (categories: javascript performance ie tools ajax debugging browser dynatrace )

• Unifying the Conversations (Salmon Protocol)
  As updates and content flow in real time around the Web, conversations around the content are becoming increasingly fragmented into individual silos. Salmon aims to define a standard protocol for comments and annotations to swim upstream to original update sources — and spawn more commentary in a virtuous cycle. It’s open, decentralized, abuse resistant, and user centric.
  (categories: social pubsubhubbub comments standards atom feeds salmon )

• Facebook Eats Away at Email Usage on Today’s Web
  Quote: "… people are using traditional communication sites and services (think webmail, IM, and discussion groups) less and less and choosing to use Facebook and other social networks instead."
  (categories: facebook email socialmedia trends socialnetworking research )

• Cubicle Muses - Wave’s Web of Protocols
  Diagram / illustration of the protocol stack in Wave.
  (categories: google wave googlewave xmpp protocols )