It looks like within the past 8 months or so that Facebook has changed to format of their data dumps to not truncate messages, as their previous data dumps were previously structured as one giant messages.htm file which would be difficult to parse and seems like it had missing data for certain cases.

I built a elasticsearch importer for fb messages and a simple web frontend that did this pretty well for many many megabytes of messages. Wouldn't mind cleaning it up if people were interested in using it. [edit: will upload here later: https://github.com/iainnash/messenger-explorer/]

Will you be OK of including your project to the list?

Was looking for some backgrojnd and found an overview presentation [pdf]: http://netlipse.eu/media/77918/11nwm-bratislava-lex-pepping-...

We're using Tropo.com, pretty easy. Otherwise it's just mysql/mysqli/php/apache. Pretty straight forward.

Something similar with syntax hilighting and sounds can be found at http://codetyper.tk/

How meta? A poll to ask about the number of polls.

One good thing about polls is they do bring a good discussion and a nice demographic insight, when they are not overused.

How about using something like BSON to reduce overhead? (and writing it in C would help). http://bsonspec.org/

Running wordpress and PHP, nonetheless. Wordpress isn't light on resources.

1: You can turn off location data.

2: None of this is being stored, beyond a cookie. Of course, you can call back to the server with that data, but the server has your IP address, which is where the location data came from.

Try using another database: I've implemented optional support for ipinfodb.com, however, the code is fairly modular to add another service.

http://codejoust.github.com/session.js/ipinfodb_demo.html