Amazing facts of Facebook

Amazing facts of Facebook

Facebook has become a behemoth.

In the United Stated Facebook has surpassed even Google in terms of traffic.

Below I have collected 40 amazing facebook statistics, and I will update them as time goes on.

To the best of my knowledge all stats below are current, and accurate.

 

People on Facebook

1. More than 500 million active users

2. 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day

3. Average user has 130 friends

4. People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook

 

Activity on Facebook

5. There are over 900 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups, events and community pages)

6. Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events

7. Average user creates 90 pieces of content each month

8. More than 30 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each month.

 

Global Reach

9. More than 70 translations of Facebook are available on the site

10. About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States

11. Over 300,000 users helped translate the site through the translations application

 

Platform

12. More than one million developers and entrepreneurs from more than 180 countries

13. Every month, more than 70% of Facebook users engage with Platform applications\

14. More than 550,000 active applications currently on Facebook Platform

15. More than one million websites have integrated with Facebook Platform

16. More than 150 million people engage with Facebook on external websites every month

17. Two-thirds of comScore’s U.S. Top 100 websites and half of comScore’s Global Top 100 websites have integrated with Facebook

 

Mobile

18. There are more than 200 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices.

19. People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice as active on Facebook than non-mobile users.

20. There are more than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products

All of  the content above is from facebook’s official press room stats page.

The remaining stats below are from elsewhere on the web.

 

Facebook Stats from Around the Web

21. Over 80% of businesses today are using facebook today.

22. Facebook has over 1,700 employees

23. Facebook is valued at between 7.9 and 11 billion dollars (and rising).

24. Facebook is an international phenomenon: 70% of Facebook users live outside of the United States.

25. There are over 3 million active Facebook fan pages.

26. There are over 1.5 million local businesses with Facebook pages.

27. More than 20 million people become fans of Facebook fan pages every single day. 

28. Facebook fan pages have created more than 5.3 billion fans.

29. The average Facebook user spends over 55 minutes on Facebook per day.

30. Women have 55% more posts on their wall than men.

31. More than 6 billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day.

32. More than 3 billion photos are uploaded to Facebook each month.

33. The United States is the country with the most Facebook users with 143,583,400 users. (viaCheckFacebook.com)

34. 26.22% of the internet using world population are currently Facebook users.  (viaCheckFacebook.com)

35. More than 250 applications have more than one million monthly active users.

36. Facebook has more than 45 million active user groups.

37. Over 30 billion pieces of content are shared on Facebook every month.

38. Texas Hold’em Poker currently has the most fans with 26,973,501. Via the Facebook Page Stats Leaderboard by allfacebook.

39. Static FBML is the most popular Facebook app with over 95,294,450 monthly application users.  (However this app can no longer be downloaded.) Via Facebakers Facebook stats.

40. If Facebook were a country it would be the third largest country in the world.

There you have it, 40 amazing Facebook stats!

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Google Buys One Company Every Week

Google Buys One Company Every Week

Google is huge. But sometimes its easier for them to just buy smart companies out there rather than built it from scratch. And when you have so much money, that makes things easier for Google.

TechCrunch reports Google is "acquiring around one company per week," according to bossman Eric Schmidt.

They've already acquired 57 companies this year, all to the sum of $1.4 billion. Some of the major purchases include Zagat, and some subtler ones include airline data firms for travel services.

At this rate, everything's going to be owned by Google.

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WALMART SELLING THE HP GARDEN DREAMS PAVILION DV5-2129WM

Latest report on WALMART SELLING THE HP GARDEN DREAMS PAVILION DV5-2129WM: Walmart, the world's largest retailer, has started selling the HP Pavilion dv5-2129wm Garden Dreams Special Edition Laptop in their stores.

The HP Pavilion dv5-2129wm Garden Dreams is a 14.5-inch notebook sports a spring look, thanks to the floral design on the lid that is done in watercolor touches. It's a Walmart exclusive which means you will not find elsewhere.

The Pavilion dv5-2129wm Special Edition is powered by an AMD Turion II P540 processor and ATI Radeon HD 4250 integrated graphics. Other specifications are 4GB of RAM, a 500GB hard drive and DVD burner. The notebook runs! Windows 7 Home Premium operating system.

The HP Pavilion dv5-2129wm Garden Dreams also has WiFi-N connectivity, three USB 2.0 ports, HDMI output and a 5-in-1 memory card reader.

Pricing
The HP Pavilion dv5-2129wm Garden Dreams is priced at $ 598. It will not be a horse multimedia power, yet it is a nice deal.

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New looks of Youtube

New Friendly looks of Youtube

YouTube has been redesigned to be more friendly for channel surfing and social network sharing. The service is trying to get its users to spend hours instead of 15 minutes on the Website each day.

Google's YouTube unit overhauled its homepage and overall redesign to provide consumers more comfortable channel surfing, part of the video Website's ongoing effort to be a key broadcasting platform for video content.

The new homepage and channels design is colored with a gray background to match colors from the Google+ social network and dovetail with redesign color schemes of Gmail, Search and other services.

Users who sign into YouTube will be able to pick and choose among the different channels, which will appear on the left rails of the homepage.

Users may then customize their homepage feed in the middle section and flit among recommended videos in the right-hand rail. Watchers may also link their YouTube account to the Google+ social network and Facebook to see what videos, movies and TV shows friends are sharing with one another.

"We are trying hard to marry the best of TV with the best of online, so you get regular programming and come back often, but the new homepage ensures you can take channels you care about and interact with them in ways you couldn't do on TV," Shishir Mehrotra, vice president of product development at YouTube, told The New York Times.

Though still the reigning king of user-generated videos, YouTube has been steadily evolving to include more professional content in an effort to keep its millions of users more engaged for longer than the 15 minutes a day users spend on average on the site.

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How To Get High Speed In 3G Connections

How To Get High Speed In 3G Connections

3G signals are generally weak, they can't penetrate buildings and other obstacles. In order to ensure a reliable connection, your modem will automatically swap between different network modes (GPRS, EDGE, 3G, HSDPA, WCDMA) depending on which is providing the strongest signal. If you're not moving around much, these mode changes are generally not required and will usually result in a slow browsing experience.

For example, you may be receiving a very strong GPRS signal (slow mode) but a much weaker HSDPA signal(fast mode). Your modem may automatically swap you over to the GPRS mode to ensure you don't get disconnected if you move around too much (ie in a car). If however you're in a static location (your house of a coffee shop) then it would be safe to remain connected in HSDPA mode and would result in a much faster browsing experience.

You need to adjust the preferences of your modem from within your connection software. You should see an option which says "3G Only", "HSDPA Only" or "WCDMA Only". Select one of these options and your connection will no longer swap over to the slower networks.

Bare in mind that if you're moving around a lot (ie in a car) then you'll want to allow the modem to automatically swap between network modes in order to give you the most reliable connection.

This simple change can instantly improve the reliability and speed up your Globe Tattoo or Smartbro browsing experience. It can also help with disconnections from yahoo messenger or MSN messenger which can sometimes occur when your modem is swapping between different network modes.

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How to test your Pen drive speed

Yes you can now test your Pen drive speed. Here is the way..

Visit
Official Website

Download their USB flash benchmark application
FlashBench.zip

You must be online connected to the Internet when speedtest is going on..

Now connect your pen drive and run this application.

Select correct path of pendrive and run start benchmark.



Now takes some time depends upon your Pen drive size...upto 15 minutes to half an hour.
( Don't stop when test is going on...otherwise it effects on your pen drive)

After completed speedtest they will give you a report link of your pen drive speedtest.

Go to that link and check that how faster is your pen drive..

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Password protection for your Google Chrome

Yes you can now password protect your Google Chrome Browser....

Just read bellow to know how

Simple Startup Password is an addon for Google Chrome 

browser that blocks unauthorized people from using your browser. 

Just go to the extensions gallery of Google Chrome and install the 

Simple Startup Password add-on for your browser.

After installing the add-on go to Settings -> Tools ->Extensions.

There look for Simple Startup Password and click on Options. 

Set a password for your browser and done. Now every time you start your Google Chrome 

browser it will ask you for the password and if you fail to give the correct 

password your browser will be closed.

You can get this add on from Google Chrome’s extensions gallery.

 Click here for link

In case you forget your password there is no option to recover it. 

You will have to reinstall the browser.

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Tips for increasing your Internet connection speed in computer

Tips for increasing your Internet connection speed

Here are some Tips for increasing your Internet connection speed in computer..
Web browsers can slow down for a number of reasons, from memory leaks to bloated cache and buggy add-ons.

1. Check whether the other computers in your house are on and connected to the internet. Turn off those that aren’t in use. By doing this, you’ll eliminate the competition for bandwidth on your connection and give the computer that you’re using more of that speed.

2. Find an efficient browser. Not all browsers are created equal. Test different ones and figure out which works the best for you. Firefox, Opera, and Chrome are some of the best and fastest browsers available.

3. Observe basic computer maintenance. When the computer itself is slow, how fast your internet connection is doesn’t matter. Everything will be slow on a slow computer. Regular maintenance, like registry repair, disk cleanup and defrag will improve your computer’s performance.

4. If you’re visiting websites where graphics don’t really matter, try switching to text-only. While text-only browsing won’t help if you’re using a website that relies on video, it will speed up your connection with general browsing and save you a lot of loading time.

5. Prevent piggybacking on your connection. If you’re using a wireless connection, be sure that you’re not unwittingly sharing it with your entire neighborhood. The more computers using your wireless connection, the slower it’s going to be. If you don’t have a good password set up on your connection, create one. A password should have at least eight characters and a mixture of letters and numbers to be secure.

6. When not actively using a program, shut it down. Having a lot of background tasks running can slow your connection down significantly. There may be more programs running than you realize because many will automatically start and connect to the internet as soon as you log onto your computer. You can configure most applications to not start by themselves or to ask permission before initiating internet connection.

7. Check your computer for spyware and malware. If your connection speed has slowed suddenly for no reason you can figure out, you may have some malicious software. Malware and spyware often connect to the internet to send information back to the developer.

8. Caching can be useful and save you some time in a lot of situations, but it can also give you some problems. With over 100 million websites on the internet and at least several megabytes of information on each one, your computer’s cache is holding a lot. Try clearing your cache every once in a while and your speed may increase.



3 Special Tips


1. Set your homepage to blank

Do you always like to go to the same Web page when you launch your browser? If yes, then skip this tip. But if not, then it’s best to set your homepage to blank, as it will make your browser open a lot quicker. To change your homepage to blank, simply go to your browser’s Tools or Settings menu, find the entry that refers to homepage, and set your homepage to blank.

2. Delete temporary Internet files

Every time you visit a website, your browser saves images and other info and stores it in the cache. In theory, this is great because it speeds up opening the website the next time you visit it. Unfortunately, there is a downside to it as well – the more files get stored in the cache, the more bloated it becomes. As a result, your browser needs more time to open and your hard drive becomes cluttered. Moreover, deleting temporary Internet files will help you protect your privacy.
To clear the cache in Internet Explorer, go to Tools – Delete Browsing History. Click Delete All, then click Close. You’re done.
Firefox users need to go to Tools – Clear Private Data. Don’t forget to check the checkboxes for the things you want cleaned up, like Cache, Cookies, Search History, etc. Then click Clear Private Data Now.

3. Use pipelining

Firefox users are in luck, because their browser has a way to boost page loading time. Pipelining lets Firefox send multiple request to a single socket without having to wait for the corresponding responses, which makes all the difference.
To enable pipelining, do the following:
Open Firefox and type about:config into the address bar and hit Enter
Find network.http.pipelining, set it to True to enable pipelining
Check that network.http.proxy.pipelining is set to True
Double-click network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and set the number of requests to 8

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Free Broadband Service from Google : Free ISP Google

Free Broadband Service from Google
Internet Monster Google has launch a free broadband service for Internet user. Here is the details.

Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines.

Installing a typical home TiSP system is a quick, easy and largely sanitary process -- provided you follow these step-by-step instructions very, very carefully.

#1   Remove the spindle of fiber-optic cable from your TiSP installation kit. #2   Attach the sinker to the loose end of the cable, take one safe step backward and drop this weighted end into your toilet.

#3   Grasp both ends of the spindle firmly while a friend or loved one flushes, thus activating the patented GFlush™ system, which sends the weighted cable surfing through the plumbing system to one of the thousands of TiSP Access Nodes. #4   When the GFlush is complete, the spindle will (or at least should) have largely unraveled, exposing a connector at the remaining end. Detach the cable from the spindle, taking care not to allow the cable to slip into the toilet.

#5   Plug the fiber-optic cable into your TiSP wireless router, which has a specially designed counterweight to withstand the centripetal force of flushing. #6   Insert the TiSP installation CD and run the setup utility to install the Google Toolbar (required) and the rest of the TiSP software, which will automatically configure your computer's network settings.

#7   Within sixty minutes -- assuming proper data flow -- the other end of your fiber-optic cable should have reached the nearest TiSP Access Node, where our Plumbing Hardware Dispatchers (PHDs) will remove the sinker and plug the line into our global data networking system. #8   Congratulations, you're online! (Please wash your hands before surfing.)

Note: If you have any difficulty installing, operating or simply living with TiSP, we suggest joining theTiSP Help Group.

Professional Installation Service
You can also choose to request our professional installation service, which dispatches an army of factory-trained, sub-contracted nanobots from the TiSP Access Node. The nanobots travel with exhilarating nano-speed through the sewer system and into your home to perform the installation service, which should be complete within 15 minutes. Note: For your own physical safety and emotional well-being and in consideration of the nanobots' working conditions, please make absolutely certain that your toilet is unoccupied at the scheduled appointment time.

In-Commode Package Delivery
With professional installation service, you can also have your Google Checkout purchases delivered directly through the sewage network into your bathroom. Each package comes pre-sealed in a watertight and nanobot-resistant bag made of biodegradable corn-based plastic. For a limited time, TiSP subscribers who sign up for a Checkout account will receive free bathroom delivery on their first ten Checkout purchases.

TiSP for Enterprise
We're actively developing a higher-performance version of TiSP specifically tailored to small and medium-sized businesses, including 24-hour, on-site technical support in the event of backup problems, brownouts and data wipes.

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