Tag Archive for 'facebook'

Facebook Media Server Failing

Published on October 4, 2011 in Miscel. 0 Comments

We’ve been seeing lots of Facebook static file requests failing.

And this issue is slowing down the other websites that have deep Facebook integration. Soccernets css is getting screwed up and even cricinfo is damn to slow.

Here’s a screenshot from my Chrome web-developer bar:

fbImageServerFailure

[UPDATE]

Well, within minutes of this post getting live the things were back to normal. But the fact that there was a failure remains. Discussing among ourselves we came to the conclusion that perhaps the Akamai cdn was having some issues. We suspect s because Twitter was failing as well and the links in question were those of Akamai. The ak prefix in the links above suggest that even Facebook uses Akamai.

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TOW I Preferred Facebook Messages To Gmail !

Published on March 12, 2011 in Miscel. 0 Comments

I needed to contact Amit Tiwary immediately. He wasn’t online. I called him. No answer – probably busy in a meeting or something. What to do? What to do?

Facebook Messages to the rescue.

Facebook -> Messages -> New Message.

To: Amit Tiwary

<the message>

Check the box on the lower right corner to send the message to mobile as well.

A few minutes later, I get a reply from Amit. He replied to my message, which was sent to him as an sms, and the reply was updated in the messages thread and simultaneously sms’ed to me. Work done!

What I liked about this system is that, as a person sending a message you should not fuss about the medium of delivery. It is Facebook’s responsibility to ensure that the other guy gets your message, be it chat, mail or sms. And the other person should conveniently be able to reply to the message.

This is something Gmail lacks right now. They could perhaps let a Gmail user select a subset of contacts whose mail notifications be sms’ed if the user is not online on Gtalk or if the Gmail session is not active. And this should not be something difficult to implement.

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