Facebook: marathon coding for IPO

Created by students from Harvard University in 2004, the social networking site Facebook now has over 900 million monthly active users. A colossal figure in the image of the excitement surrounding the IPO of the company led by Mark Zuckerberg.

Today is that Facebook makes its debut at the New York Stock Exchange. On the Nasdaq trading platform, around 421,233,615 shares which Facebook will be offered at 38 dollars apiece. What raised more than $ 16 billion.

The valuation of the group could reach $ 104 billion (see our news for details). These figures may fear a new Internet bubble, but also scare users. As if to reassure them, Facebook has also given the kickoff of a hackathon on the night of Thursday to Friday at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California.



Contraction of the words hack and marathon, a marathon is a hackathon coding. This type of event is not a first for Facebook as it is the 31st. Employees of Facebook are designing prototypes for all the new ideas they have in mind.


At the end of a hackathon, Facebook team meets to take a look at what was intended. The social network emphasizes that many of its products have emerged following a hackathon, and cite the Timeline (Journal, the new Facebook profile), chat, video, mobility for development or changes in the infrastructure with the compiler HipHop (PHP compiler for Facebook).

At the time of the IPO of Facebook, holding this 31st hackathon is sent as a signal to say that the social network "will not lose its soul." Facebook states, however, that a hackathon is a great tradition that forms the foundation of great ideas ... and others who are less so.

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