“In 2005, Mr. Choe was invited to paint murals on the walls of Facebook’s first offices in Palo Alto, Calif., by Sean Parker, then Facebook’s president. As pay, Mr. Parker offered Mr. Choe a choice between cash in the “thousands of dollars,” according to several people who know Mr. Choe, or stock then worth about the same. Mr. Choe, who has said that at the time that he thought the idea of Facebook was “ridiculous and pointless,” nevertheless chose the stock.”
Probably worth a couple of hundred million dollars now!
(via For Founders to Decorators, Facebook Riches - NYTimes.com)
Source: The New York Times
How many is a lot of users?
It seems that Facebook was hovering around 800 million users for a year now. I was starting to get the feeling they had maxed out. Now news just in is they may be topping 1 billion users soon. (That’s 1 out 7 people globally!)
And this news on the same day as Twitter, who was hovering around a few hundred million users, is set to reach 500 million in February. Half a billion. That’s a big number.
Facebook circa 1905’s (via ReubenMiller : Social Media circa 1950)
Source: reubenmiller.typepad.com
Wow, that’s a lot of photos on Facebook!
(via The Relative Sizes of the World’s Largest Photo Libraries)
Source: petapixel.com
Sooner or later you’re going to be using Google+
What’s your company’s social media engagement plan?
Check out what KLM did. Not earth shattering, and perhaps a little corny, but still I like that they made it and “IRL” experience. Nice!
KLM Surprise (by KLMRoyalDutchAirline)
Source: youtube.com
Track Social Engagement now in Google Analytics
Yep, folks, at last you can track Facebook “likes”, Google +1s and Tweets. Very nifty!
(via Google Analytics & Webmaster Tools Now Track the Impact of Tweets, Likes & 1s)
Source: Mashable
2 Days after it launches, Google Plus gets turned into Facebook with this smattering of CSS. Brilliant!
Source: TechCrunch
Source: reality.li
Source: 9gag
What are you?
A creator, conversationalist, critic, collector, joiner, spectator or inactive when it comes to social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc)?
New Facebook Messaging arrives
Yet another email address and inbox to manage. Will you use yours as another personal email address?
Facebook Books $1.86B in 2010 Advertising Revenue; Muscles In on Google Turf
This post is mostly for the benefit of my less tech-savvy friends and family who think Facebook “makes no money”…
Well, they apparently took in $1.86 billion in worldwide advertising revenue for 2010. Facebook generated $1.86 billion in worldwide advertising revenue for 2010.
Article here
Not too shabby, hey, Nige? Ja, but I here Google also doesn’t make any money, since it’s free, right?
How To Get Facebook Fan Page Email Notifications
Do you run or admin a Facebook Page for your company or group?
Well, I am sure you will have noticed that you don’t get notified if someone posts to your Facebook Page, or comments on one of your posts. Loads of people are complaining about this, and it escapes me why Facebook haven’t implemented this feature!
Anyway, here’s a simple work-around: Just “like” every post you make to your Page. Simple. Now any time that someone comments or asks a question on your post - bingo - an email notification arrives!
Here’s a fuller description of the solution if you want it.
