Really refreshing to see how people use their resources in another industry. I'm glad to hear that he got inspiration from the hacker community at SXSW.I haven't watched the movie yet, but I have it bookmarked for this weekend.

Just when I thought I knew everything there is to know about compression algorithms, along came Pauli, and Voila, mind now blown.

Check out what RainStor does to compress relational data by a factor of 20-40 or so (that's 95%-97.5%): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIsVcaMaAgg&feature=playe...

Great points rishi. Facebook can teach us all a lesson in social networking and how to improve our own web 2.0 products.

Beware, a strategy like this might aswell backlash. Maybe it would not be as easy to get away with if you're not the 4th largest site in the world.