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Here are a few videos on Facebook's data center construction project.
The following is an overview of the project.
This one shows construction work in progress that is of more interest to the data center insiders. The design looks like a repeat of the Prineville build.
If you said you were trying to find the lies in the data center to make it greener, people will think you are strange. If you asked someone to spot the lies in the data center, most would say we have a high availability with security systems that prevent thieves. But, what few think about is lying is ingrained in human behavior. How so, consider this post on workplace deception.
5 Surprising Truths About Workplace Deception
“Honesty is the best policy.” Sounds so old-fashioned, doesn’t it?
In today’s workplace, honesty isn’t always the first choice for business conduct. Fudging the truth is awfully tempting, no matter where you sit in the chain of command. From cooking the books to fibbing on resumes to having a co-worker “punch out” for you, there are a thousand ways people engage in deception at work.
Here are the top five lies in the workplace.
- 1. More than 80% of college undergraduates will lie in an attempt to get a job.
- 2. You will be lied to on the first day of your new job—within the first 10 minutes!
- 3 Phone calls are nearly 3x as likely to contain lies as emails.
- 4. People are significantly more likely to lie to coworkers than to strangers.
- 5. When the stakes are high, a negotiator will almost always lie if given the opportunity.
I wrote about Wired picking up on Google's Hamina Data Center.
Today I saw two other publications that reference the Wired post.
Google's New Data Center Is An Abandoned Paper Mill In Finland
Gizmodo Australia - 8 minutes agoI don't know what it is about new data centres, but they all seem to resemble the evil lairs of Bond-movie villains. Google's latest, based in a disused paper mill in Finland, is no exception. According to Wired, Google acquired the site for $US52 ...Google's recycled paper mill datacenter uses seawater for green cooling
SlashGear - 2 hours agoWe all know that Google is big on green. The company has huge investments in solar power, wind power, and more green sources of renewable energy. This green push isn't something new at Google; it's been going on for years.
You can argue with the accuracy or newsworthiness of these posts from your data center expertise, but keep in mind for the data center curious articles like these new to them and the facts.
Microsoft is pulling out of CES after being there for so long. Apple pulled out of MacWorld and it has transformed the trade show into a non-tradeshow.
I was in SJ last week, and out nostalgia I went by the Apple store and picked up a apple logo t-shirt that was green. Am I an Apple fanatic? no. Did I work there for 7 years (1985-1992)? yes. Do I have an iPhone 4S and MacBook Air? Yes. What is my next tech purchase? a Verizon Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich version phone. :-)
Going through airport security at SJC a guy asked me if I was at MacWorld. I was thinking hell no. Why would I go there?
Here is a Gizmodo article on how MacWorld is now.
Macworld Is Weird Now
I love Macworld Expo. I've gone more years than I haven't out of the last dozen. But for most of those years, Apple was presenting. That's changed.
One of the indicators on how big the event was is the media coverage. Check out the press room picture.
What is interesting is the guy writing this article for Gizmodo doesn't think of himself as media.
In the past decade and change, Expo went from technology side show to main event. Post-iPod, the press arrived in greater numbers. By the time the iPhone launched, they began showing up in troop trucks. It became impossible to get a good seat. The number of exhibitors likewise swelled. It was chaos. And too normal. All the weirdos left. Or at least, there were so many normal people, the big old nerds weren't as evident. I hated that. And I especially hated the media. Fuck the media.
But then Apple pulled out. And so too did all the hangers on in the media.
One of the top things that exhibitors want besides end users at trade shows is media coverage. If writers like above hate the media who does like the media?
Is Gizmodo the media? The author of this post is an editor. I am confused. :-)
Mathew HonanI make magazines and websites
I am reading the book "Grouped" by Facebook's Paul Adams.
Grouped: How Small Groups of Friends Are the Key to Influence on the Social Web [Book] by Paul Adams in Books
$18 online, $30 nearby
1 reviewBy Paul Adams - Pearson Education, Limited (2011) - Paperback - 216 pages - ISBN 0321804112The web is being rebuilt around people. From travel to news to commerce, businesses are reorienting their efforts around people - around the social behavior of their customers and potential customers. As we traverse across the web, we'll know which of our friends prefer different brands, and this information will be surfaced to us at the most opportune moments - when we're deciding what to buy. In order to be successful in this new social web, businesses will need to understand how people are influenced by their social network. How the people closest to them influence them the most, and how it's more important to focus on small connected groups of friends rather than looking for overly influential individuals. This book pulls together the latest research on influence and social behavior to describe how people are connected, and how ideas and brand messages spread through social networks.
This book is short and has some interesting Quick Tips.
One entry on Paul's blog is here.
Five major shifts
By Paul Adams in MusingLately, I’ve been talking to people about five major shifts that I see happening. Each is big enough to warrant a post of its own, so over the next few days I’ll write about each individually, and then write a post about what it means to think of them in combination. I’ll link to all from this post. In the meantime, here are the five major shifts:
1. The amount of information we can access is increasing exponentially.
2. The web is being rebuilt around people, rather than being built around content.
3. For the first time in humanity, social interaction, and influence, are measurable.
4. Technology is driving a large increase in understanding how we make decisions, and it’s not how we assumed.
5. Mobile technologies (phones, tablets, etc.) will change society in ways we can’t yet predict.
I am biased seeing these five shifts, because I have been busy with some friends to build a service that is adapting to all of these.
Are you ready for the five major shifts?
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