Facebook CTO endorses cloud solution

Bret Taylor
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BBC News recently interviewed Facebook CTO, Bret Taylor. He speaks of the challenge to keep the Facebook platform updated. It's not just a matter of updating the website for PC and means updating the iPhone, Android and Blackberry apps, the mobile site and a number of other device-specific versions.

He also comments on how Facebook has taken off in the games industry with Zynga, creator of the ubiquitous Farmville, apparently worth more than Electronic Arts, formerly (?) the largest independent games developer in the world. Then again, Twitter is supposedly worth $10bn. (Ed: we'll happily sell TomiLaw for a mere $10m.)

The other thing Taylor said is that he regrets buying servers while he was CEO at Friendfeed (which Facebook eventually bought for $500m). "I think that was a big mistake in retrospect...I think that most of the people that worked at FriendFeed would agree that if that part of the company were just taken care of, it would have been worth all of the extra money we would have spent on it."