Note on this list the stubborn persistence of Yahoo’s Geocities at No. 6, the rise of Yahoo’s Flickr at No. 7, Six Apart at No. 10, and the presences of Chinese sites like Baidu Space and 56.com. The real surprise, though, is document-sharing site Scribd at No. 16, with nearly 24 million worldwide uniques. 1. Blogger (222 million) 2. Facebook (200 million) 3. MySpace (126 million) 4. Wordpress (114 million) 5. Windows Live Spaces (87 million) 6. Yahoo Geocities (69 million) 7. Flickr (64 million) 8. hi5 (58 million) 9. Orkut (46 million) 10. Six Apart (46 million) 11. Baidu Space (40 million) 12. Friendster (31 million) 13. 56.com (29 million) 14. Webs.com (24 million) 15. Bebo (24 million) 16. Scribd (23 million)
10 Great Implementations of Facebook Connect January 12, 2009 - 9:39 am PDT - by Ben Parr Facebook Connect mania has swept the Internet! Why create an account on a random website when you can click a single button to join? That is the power of Facebook Connect, which allows websites, software, and even mobile devices to integrate with Facebook and send information both ways. The last few months have been very busy ones for developers as they furiously integrated their websites with Facebook Connect. But a few implementations have stood out against the rest. Some are on this list because of the seamlessness of their integration, while others for their usefulness.
James Hamilton has published a thorough summary of Facebook's Cassandra, another scalable key-value store for your perusal. It's open source and is described as a "BigTable data model running on a Dynamo-like infrastructure." Cassandra is used in Facebook as an email search system containing 25TB and over 100m mailboxes. # Google Code for Cassandra - A Structured Storage System on a P2P Network # SIGMOD 2008 Presentation. # Video Presentation at Facebook # Facebook Engineering Blog for Cassandra # Anti-RDBMS: A list of distributed key-value stores # Facebook Cassandra Architecture and Design by James Hamilton