Interesting Info-graphic of Facebook statistics for 2010

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

LinkedIn Hits 50 Million Users

As of early this morning, LinkedIn has 50 million users worldwide and we’re growing that figure at roughly one new member per second. When LinkedIn launched in 2003, it took 477 days — almost a year and four months — to reach the first million members. This last million took only 12 days.

Where are these 50 million users? LinkedIn has been global since inception — about half of our total membership is international.
There are now 11 million users in Europe alone. India is currently our fastest-growing country with almost 3 million users, while the Netherlands has the highest rate of adoption per capita outside the U.S., at 30%.

While 50 million is an important milestone, LinkedIn are even more excited about how members are using the site. Around the globe, people turn to LinkedIn to create and manage their professional identities online. They reconnect with former colleagues and develop new relationships, enabling them to create and collaborate with a network of trusted individuals. Every day professionals use LinkedIn to define themselves —and their businesses — to the world.
If you didn't create a profile yet , Go create one on LinkedIn & share your connections with me.
My LinkedIn profile : Jilan Wagdy

Short brief about LinkedIn :
LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003 mainly used for professional networking. As we mentioned above it hits 50 million registered users, spanning more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.

LinkedIn Services:
A mobile version of the site was launched in February 2008 which gives access to a reduced feature set over a mobile phone. The mobile service is available in six languages:
Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish.

In mid-2008, LinkedIn launched LinkedIn DirectAds as a form of sponsored advertising.

In October, 2008, LinkedIn enabled an "applications platform" that allows other online services to be embedded within a member's profile page. For example, among the initial applications were an Amazon Reading List that allows LinkedIn members to display books they are reading and a Six Apart, WordPress and TypePad application that allows members to display their latest blog postings within their LinkedIn profile.

Sources: Mashable LinkedIn blog wikipedia

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 .

Ping.fm is a simple service that makes updating your social networks

Ping.fm is a very simple, useful service that enables you to send a message to 30+ social networks at once, using either standard e-mail, your mobile phone or popular IM services. Its simplicity apparently attracted two high-profile angel investors, according to a company blog post. The new backers are Reid Hoffman (who just became CEO of LinkedIn again) and Joi Ito.

We first took note of Ping.fm in late March this year, when the service was still in private beta, and we warned it could well become merely ‘a feature of a feature’. Nonetheless, the site seems to be holding its own and has attracted enough users to start having problems scaling the service.

Ping.fm apparently had its share of problems and slow response times the past few weeks, and the new capital should help them obtain more stability. From the post:

This is mainly because of not having the resources to maintain the volume of users and overall traffic we are seeing. This investment will allow us to scale our hardware to improve the reliability of our service as well as continue to increase the awesome that is Ping.fm instead of babysitting smoking servers all day.

It’s unclear how much both men have invested in the pinging service. It’s also unclear if there will ever be mainstream adoption of Ping.fm, as it seems a bit reserved to power socnet users / early adopters.

(Source: ReadWriteWeb)