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MySpace plays catchup to Facebook’s open-source tools

Source: VentureBeat

Sep 15, 2009

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Last Thursday, Facebook released Tornado Web Server, an open-source software library that “can handle thousands of simultaneous standing connections.”

Facebook’s motive was no secret: Tornado was designed to make it easy for other websites to connect to Facebook to scrape customer info and reuse it on the FriendFeed site whose parent company and staff Facebook acquired last month. Making it easy for more sites to maintain a huge number of super-high-speed connections to Facebook that are updated every few seconds — the technology has earned the slang name “real-time” — is, to Internet marketers, a smart way to extend Facebook’s reach even further.

Today, Facebook was followed by a similar announcement from MySpace, the Beverly Hills-based company whose former buzz has been stolen by Facebook and Twitter. Qizmt, as MySpace’s technology is called, currently powers the People You May Know box (pictured) presented to logged-in MySpace users. But Qizmt “can be used for many operations that require processing large amounts of data such as collaborative filtering for

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