“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
Now this is a clever idea for the unmotivated exerciser. Playing games while working out. (check out their other apps here: BitGym)
Source: bitgym.com
Largest corporate earnings of all time:
This is actually the craziest chart about Apple following their insane earnings today.
There is exactly one company on that entire list that is not an oil and gas company. And they’re not that far from the top.
via parislemon
(via thenextweb)
Source: parislemon
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.
In order to do my SARS tax efiling I needed the Adobe Reader installed.
Up till now I have managed without it due to Google Chrome having a built in PDF reader as well as having the Mac OSX default PDF viewer. SARS is using some specific PDF form-filing functionality which I guess only Adobe supports.
So, no problem I think, I just quickly download and install Reader from Adobe. Not. 415megs of app. What? To render PDF files? Have they gone mad? No wonder Steve Jobs got fed up with Adobe and dumped Flash. 415megs!
What is smaller than Apple?
Source: macgasm.net
Quick, get yourself a pair of KEF speakers for your sitting room. Only $198,000. While stocks last.
That’s about R1,600,000, enough for a house, or several RDP houses if you live in South Africa.
(via KEF Muon)
Source: kefdirect.com
The State of Ecommerce in South Africa
Source: ecommercesa.co.za
Shame, poor Amazon, they must feel so left out. No one is suing them. Yet.
Created by: MBA Online (via Patents | MBA Online)
Source: mbaonline.com
I was in the parking lot with the key in the car, and I thought to myself, ‘If this is my last night on earth, would I rather spend it at a business meeting or with this woman?’ I ran across the parking lot, asked her if she’d have dinner with me. She said yes, we walked into town and we’ve been together ever since.
An interesting take on why Apple’s iPhone screen size is what it is (as compared to the Galaxy S II.
Still, I think a bigger screen might be useful for us with aging eyes.
Source: next.dustincurtis.com
Wow, that’s a lot of photos on Facebook!
(via The Relative Sizes of the World’s Largest Photo Libraries)
Source: petapixel.com
Why text messages are limited to 160 characters - latimes.com
Why text messages are limited to 160 characters. A brief history of the SMS.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/05/invented-text-messaging.html
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
