Cloudy Thinking

Facebook stats show:
* More than 150 million active users
* The fastest growing demographic is those 30 years old and older
* Average user has 120 friends on the site
* More than 3 billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day (worldwide)
* More than 15 million users update their statuses at least once each day
* More than 850 million photos uploaded to the site each month
* More than 5 million videos uploaded each month
* More than 24 million pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) shared each month
* More than 2 million events created each month
* More than 20 million active user groups exist on the site

Nick O’Neill writes about 10 Privacy Settings every Facebook user should know. Solid advice.

Twitter profile:

Name thankgod
Location Heaven
Bio Find out what Twitterers are thanking God for

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Yves Smith reprinted this Most Excellent quote: “We believe that the stimulus is too backend loaded and unimaginative to affect anything sooner [than late 2009 or early 2010].

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You decide: Is God now using Twitter to keep in touch with us? Do you consider this to be profane, or harmless fun?

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I store a few files on the Amazon S3 disk farm in the sky. The cost is, well, MODEST.

Greetings from Amazon Web Services,

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Flatworld a startup open textbook publishing company. I like this idea a LOT.

Brian Carroll writes How to use social media for lead generation. Maybe there is some tangible benefit from using social media. [smile]

Ann Handley writes Why Do People Use Twitter? It’s well worth your time to read.

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Jennifer Van Grove compares 15 Twitter directories.

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After a run of 35 years, the famous Santa Barbara Writers Conference is taking a one-year hiatus. The reason: Not enough writers signed up for the event, even though 450 people attended last year. Registration for the conference was $675 this year, or $875 after March. In Santa Barbara, Lodging and food for six days would more than double that amount.

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Seth Grimes writes about open source text analytics, focusing on four tools: Gate, NLTK, R and RapidMiner.

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