iFive: Facebook’s Green Servers, Intel Invests in Kno, Google Checkin Offers, StumbleUpon’s Billion "Finds," Google Gives

1. Late yesterday Facebook revealed a surprisingly green core to its computer operation–efficient server and infrastructure designs that consume less energy than comparable data centers, and are 38% more energy efficient and 24% more cost effective than its previous configuration. Better yet, for the ecologically minded, Facebook is making the design of its infrastructure open source to encourage other folks to use it–it’s called the Open Compute Project

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iFive: Facebook’s Green Servers, Intel Invests in Kno, Google Checkin Offers, StumbleUpon’s Billion "Finds," Google Gives