Joe Petviashvili

So we’ve been increasingly concerned about developments at Facebook over the last few months that allow advertisers to post ads using my picture and name to endorse their products without my explicit permission. I’ve received literally dozens of emails from more...

“Facebook has rules that govern what content makes it into the newsfeed of members. This is a difference to the wide open flow of Friendfeed. In FriendFeed, users control the noise. In Facebook, the site controls the noise. And according more...

the second significant instance of Facebook Open Sourcing a key infrastructure component "inspired" by Google internals

the polar bear conservancy is relocating three thousand bears to Antartica. Alarm bells go off in my head, wondering if this has the potential to be as disasterous as, say, the introduction of rabbits to Australia.

we are all doomed

“So, is it true that your co-owners can sell without you or otherwise push through an initial public offering of Facebook without your approval as chief executive officer? Well, the answer is maybe.”

The fight for the "second click" refers to Google thinking about how they can control not just the first click (Search!) but also provide a shortcut to answer the query on a second click. And because of their control of more...

The box alerts users that information is about to be shared with Facebook unless they click on "No Thanks." It disappears after about 20 seconds, after which consent is assumed.

More interesting was the news that Facebook would spend $200 million next year on capital expenditures, which is a whole lot of servers.

We definitely wouldn't change our choice of framework - Rails was invaluable for rapid application development, and I think we've pretty much proven that two guys without a lot of scaling experience can scale a Rails app up. The whole more...

Simple math that shows when and how Facebook applications lose active users. If you're a Facebook app developer, you may want to read this.

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“Given current invitation conversation rates of 5% or less (at least what I'm hearing), for an app to go viral, you have to get people to invite an average of at least 20 friends. How many utility based apps can more...

A great percentage of females, but a lot of unspecified genders.

Apparently in addition to hiring my speaking coaches and wearing a black fleece jacket as an allusion to my black mock turtleneck, Faceberg now is copying another of my traits and parking in a handicapped spot.