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Facebook and Skittles
So today Facebook celebrates six years of booking faces!
Six years since Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes huddled together around some computers in Harvard University and created a fun college website for their friends.
And now, six years in the making, Facebook has literally exploded into a thriving, opinionated, and interconnected network of 400 million users – making it the 3rd largest ‘country’ on the planet!
What’s more impressive is that Facebook’s population growth is actually accelerating. It took 3 months to grow from 300>350 million and a mere 2 months to then reach 400 million.
I spent a few minutes breaking the 62 days of growth down to more manageable numbers, and converting them into packets of Skittles. I like Skittles.
- 806,451 Skittles eaten per day
- 33,602 Skittles eaten per hour
- 560 Skittles eaten per minute
- 9 Skittles eaten per second
9 Skittles eaten (sign-ups) every single second of the day, and that number is still increasing! Could you keep that up?
This post should have only taken you about 1 minute to read so far… during that time, 560 people joined Facebook. In my world, that’s 10 packets of Skittles eaten. Wow.
Have you joined Facebook? What’s your favorite Skittles color?
Barbie Stop Motion
We were going through some old files in the office today and found some equally old videos from a previous series in February 2009… okay – so maybe not that old.
They were my first effort at stop-motion photography, and they had me hiding in the office basement for days playing with Barbies. Hrmm… The final result turned out much better than expected, though! So after hours of careful Barbie manipulating, hundreds of photos and a dash of Photoshop & Final Cut, we arrived with 3 series promotional videos: Beach, Night-Club and Anniversary.
If you’re interested, you can check out the rest of the Heat series here.
Enjoy.