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.
The most expensive photo in the world, just sold on auction at Christies for $4,338,500.
Yep, that’s millions. Zoom. Focus. Click. Print. Ka-ching!
Source: christies.com
I can’t believe that was 25 years ago.
Fantastic commemoration of Pink Floyd’s Animals record. Still one of the best.
Source: telegraph.co.uk
Tuesday August 30, 2011, Today is the 29th anniversary of email, as copyrighted by this man
“On August 30th, 1982, 29 years ago, 16-year old V. A. Shiva copyrighted “EMAIL” along with the GUI we still use today with the fields “To: From: Cc: Bcc: Subject: Reply, Reply All, Forward” and Email body and attachment.”
Read the full story here
Source: thenextweb.com
As I write this, I’m sitting in a cafe. Around me, there are five people on laptops — four of them are MacBooks. Four other people are using tablets — all four are iPads. Welcome to the Post-PC world.
Source: TechCrunch
“An Austrian atheist has won the right to be shown on his driving-licence photo wearing a pasta strainer as “religious headgear”.
“Niko Alm first applied for the licence three years ago after reading that headgear was allowed in official pictures only for confessional reasons.”
“Mr Alm said the sieve was a requirement of his religion, pastafarianism.”
(via BBC News - Austrian driver’s religious headgear strains credulity)
Source: BBC
Finaly, a website, I could, sumbitt items too daily!
I think I will become one of their biggest contributors. I’m not perfect at grammar, punctuation or writing - far from it - but I’m also not paid to be an editor or publisher of news websites. Almost daily I see something published in a South African news site that makes my jaw drop - and I’m not talking about the content, I’m talking about the shocking state of spell-checking and proofing.
Click through and read some of the blunders.
(via Becasue News are importan learn tool for South Africa education | The kak state of SA media and news)
Source: noobs24.com
“If you follow the money in the music industry you see that it leads to a dead end. There isn’t any. The music companies are not going concerns and have not been investment grade for over a decade. The’ve been bought and sold by debt holders, conglomerates, vain corporations and private equity funds. They are distressed assets. Their influence is far greater than their value, which is arguably not above zero.” - Source unknown.
Source: Business Insider
Friends don’t let friends use Internet Explorer 6
I can’t believe so many SA corporates still have IE6 as the standard-default-thou-shalt-not-uninstall-this-browser-else-you-will-be-fired browser.
Come on folks, even Microsoft wants you to stop using it!!
Source: Mashable
The new Consumer Protection Act, which comes into force in less than a month, will allow subscribers to can the deal, and only pay 10% of the balance of the contract’s value.
Source: itweb.co.za
![Don’t mess with the Egyptians! If they want Twitter, don’t take it away!
Breaking News of the Day: Despite the Egyptian government’s attempts to block Twitter (live status updates), thousands of protesters, who coordinated their efforts through Facebook and other social networks, took to the streets of Cairo and elsewhere to express their displeasure with President Hosni Mubarak’s leadership and call for an end to his 30 years in power.
From AlJazeera:
The rallies had been promoted online by groups saying they speak for young Egyptians frustrated by the kind of poverty and oppression which triggered the overthrow of Tunisia’s president. Egyptian blogger Hossam El Hamalawy said technology was important in facilitating “the domino effect” needed for demonstrations like this one to progress.
Bolstered by the recent social media-propelled revolt in Tunisia, many Egyptians took to social networks to organize a national “Day of Revolution” on January 25th, co-opting what is formally Police Day. Twitpics and YouTube videos of clashes between demonstrators and riot police have been circulating widely in an effort to maintain momentum.
An official count of arrest or injuries has not yet been released, but many bloodied protesters could be seen in photos, and reports have surfaced of two protesters killed in Suez and a fatally-wounded soldier in Cairo. A report that Mubarak’s son fled to London with his family could not be confirmed.
The protest’s official Facebook page is providing fresh reports on events which continue to unfold at this time. The Twitter hashtag #cairo is also being used to provide streaming updates. Additional social media updates can be found here.
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Don’t mess with the Egyptians! If they want Twitter, don’t take it away!
Breaking News of the Day: Despite the Egyptian government’s attempts to block Twitter (live status updates), thousands of protesters, who coordinated their efforts through Facebook and other social networks, took to the streets of Cairo and elsewhere to express their displeasure with President Hosni Mubarak’s leadership and call for an end to his 30 years in power.
From AlJazeera:
The rallies had been promoted online by groups saying they speak for young Egyptians frustrated by the kind of poverty and oppression which triggered the overthrow of Tunisia’s president. Egyptian blogger Hossam El Hamalawy said technology was important in facilitating “the domino effect” needed for demonstrations like this one to progress.
Bolstered by the recent social media-propelled revolt in Tunisia, many Egyptians took to social networks to organize a national “Day of Revolution” on January 25th, co-opting what is formally Police Day. Twitpics and YouTube videos of clashes between demonstrators and riot police have been circulating widely in an effort to maintain momentum.
An official count of arrest or injuries has not yet been released, but many bloodied protesters could be seen in photos, and reports have surfaced of two protesters killed in Suez and a fatally-wounded soldier in Cairo. A report that Mubarak’s son fled to London with his family could not be confirmed.
The protest’s official Facebook page is providing fresh reports on events which continue to unfold at this time. The Twitter hashtag #cairo is also being used to provide streaming updates. Additional social media updates can be found here.
[nyt / rt / boingboing / rrw / photo: afp.]
Source: thedailywhat
iPad Officially Launches in South Africa
Source: digicape.co.za
‘Great Garbage Patch’ Not So Great After All.
The massive floating island of plastic in the Pacific Ocean isn’t nearly as large as reports have claimed, according to a new study.
Read the full story here:
‘Great Garbage Patch’ Not So Great After All : Discovery News
Source: news.discovery.com
