Interesting Info-graphic of Facebook statistics for 2010

Smart Insights published a very interesting info-graphic for Facebook statistics year 2010.
Enjoy it ;)

Finally you will have your username for your Facebook account

From the beginning of Facebook, people have used their real names to share and connect with the people they know. This authenticity helps to create a trusted environment because you know the identity of the people and things on Facebook. The one place, though, where your identity wasn't reflected was in the Web address for your profile or the Facebook Pages you administer. The URL was just a randomly assigned number like "id=592952074." That soon will change.

We're planning to offer Facebook usernames to make it easier for people to find and connect with you. When your friends, family members or co-workers visit your profile or Pages on Facebook, they will be able to enter your username as part of the URL in their browser. This way people will have an easy-to-remember way to find you. We expect to offer even more ways to use your Facebook username in the future.

Your new Facebook URL is like your personal destination, or home, on the Web. People can enter a Facebook username as a search term on Facebook or a popular search engine like Google, for example, which will make it much easier for people to find friends with common names. Your username will have the same privacy setting as your profile name in Search, and you can always edit your search privacy settings.


Starting at 12:01 a.m. EDT on Saturday, June 13, you'll be able to choose a username on a first-come, first-serve basis for your profile and the Facebook Pages that you administer by visiting www.facebook.com/username/. You'll also see a notice on your home page with instructions for obtaining your username at that time.

Facebook usernames will be available in basic text forms, and you can only choose a single username for your profile and for each of the Pages that you administer. Your username must be at least five characters in length and only include alphanumeric characters (A-Z, 0-9), or a period or full stop ("."). While usernames are currently available only for Romanized text, we're looking at how we might support non-Romanized characters in the future.

Think carefully about the username you choose. Once it's been selected, you won't be able to change or transfer it. If you signed up for a Facebook Page after May 31 or a user profile after today at 3 p.m. EDT, you may not be able to sign up for a username immediately because of steps we've taken to prevent abuse or "squatting" on names.

Source Facebook blog

Finally doodle in Egypt

Finally doodle in Egypt; I liked the idea immensely because those who will design the logo are the orphan children. We are supposed to vote for the best logo that represents Egypt. The winning logo will be displayed on Google Egypt on "the orphans' day" (the first Friday of every April).

This year it will be on the third of April.
There are competitions held all over the world for children to design a logo of Google. Google has organized this competition for the first time in Egypt and the Arabian world in accordance with the celebration of the orphans' day on the third of April. A group of orphans were invited to participate in this competition, this day is planned to be full of joy and entertainment for children. More than 160 orphans participated in last year's competition (20th of march).
Picking the winning logo last year went through two stages:

First stage:
25 designs were chosen from 160 designs in 20th of March. The board included professors of design from the German university in Cairo (GUC).
Choosing only 25 designs was a very difficult process. The following standards were considered in picking these designs:
- the artistic sense
- the artistic creation
- the link between the logo and Egypt

Second stage:
Currently there is a public vote for picking the best logo to be displayed on the 3rd of April – vote now! , Click here for photos of the event

Many organizations participated in that event, such as German University In Cairo (GUC), Resala charity organization and the Egyptian actor Khaled Abo-Elnaga.

This is the logo I chose:
My Doodle Egypt
Check the Facebook Group: It was created by Wael Ghonim (MENA Product & Marketing Manager at Google).

The idea of doodle began in the year 2000 when Larry Page and Sergey Brin asked Dennis Hwang to design a ceremonial logo in the honor of Bastille Day. Dennis Hwang said that his favorite logo was the one he designed for Magritte's birthday.
From that day on, Dennis Hwang started designing ceremonial logos for international ceremonies, in addition to festivals. He is such a famous designer and we all follow up his works and look out for his designs. He designs around 50 logos per year.

Facebook - Change Your Terms of Service Back NOW!

Facebook changed its Terms of Service on February 4, 2009, to remove an important provision. As The Consumerist blog explains, "Facebook's terms of service (TOS) used to say that when you closed an account on their network, any rights they claimed to the original content you uploaded would expire. Not anymore."

After a lot of objections Mark Zuckerberg listened and wrotes, "Over the past couple of days, we received a lot of questions and comments about the changes and what they mean for people and their information. Based on this feedback, we have decided to return to our previous terms of use while we resolve the issues that people have raised.

WE DID IT .