Today Yahoo opened its new data center, officially called the “Yahoo Computing Coop”, unofficially called the “Yahoo Chicken Coop”.  In the Buffalo/Niagara Falls suburb of Lockport, NY. Why?  The basic architectural principle is based on the Chicken Coup.  Using louvers to take in cool air to cool down the server farm (pun intended). It is [...]

Sure facebook is the coolest place for your avatar to live on the net (sorry WoW) and I say avatar because I’m sure some people’s facebook pages are… a little more calculated than their real life.  Ok I know people who put just about anything and everything up there, but many make their webprescence shine [...]