Facebook Goes Down Amid Rollout of New Brand Pages

meh. Everybody crashes, eventually. Software/hardware is just too complex, with too many cooks in the kitchen, evolving too fast, with too many unknowns. That quote from Mark's character in the movie Social Network was more of an ideal/goal statement rather than fact or hard requirement. Overall I think Facebook has had great availability/performance considering how many active users they have.

Of course. FB has taken a leaf out of Microsoft's book. They are now dedicated to copying smaller businesses, and using overwhelming market power to overrun the people who actually thought of novel ideas and businesses.

True to the MS style, first they try tr buy you. If you say no, or want too much money, they'll just copy you. Examples: twitter, foursquare AKA 'the wall', 'facebook places'.

not if the site is down.

Didn't think it was particularly awful, so much as... new.

Could you explain? I hardly ever use Facebook so I can’t remember the old one but the new one seems to be perfectly fine. It’s snappy (the page doesn’t reload and it seems to be faster than flickr), photos are displayed sufficiently large (still apparently no way to download originals, though) and the arrow keys work. All the things that make me happy when I encounter a photo viewer are there.

It’s nothing special per se but a perfectly fine implementation of a photo viewer as far as I can see.