Facebook has announced that it will open it's international headquarters in Dublin. I wonder what this means for me as a web developer. I'm hoping it means they hire a bunch of PHP developers and the Irish PHP User Group Flourishes. Hopefully with more large companies around that use PHP we'll have a great community to help build our own skills and contacts. I can't wait to go along to some technical event held by Facebook! I have been finding Facebook less important to me than I initially thought it would be. However I read that Facebooks traffic is up 50% over the last year on Search Engine Watch. I was an early adopter of Facebook and I was excited. Now I feel the need for something much better to come along something more relavent to me and my life. Will Facebook the website become more relavent to me now that it has a headquarters in Europe? In thinking about their announcement I assessed how I use Facebook lately. I open the website in the morning and at night, and after pressing ignore on all the applications and strange things people invite me to I then flick to my Friends section where I read what people have been up to. Once a week or so I check out the feeds to see other peoples comments and photos and such. I wish I didn't have to go to Facebook for this, I wish it was more integrated into my life, part of my igoogle desktop or something like that (ofcourse facebook can provide these services). On that note I think I've been becoming happy about the Tech community here in Dublin. With the Irish PHP User Group, Irish Linux User Group, Open Coffee, Geek Girl Dinners, Ruby User Group and work events, Ireland has felt more like the Technical Capital of Europe I imagned before I arrived. Finally I will do some more investigation on how Facebook works, how PHP is involved and the chances of PHP developer community growing in Ireland. What does Facebook opening their International headquarters in Dublin mean to you?