Delicious LiveJournal Links for 12-14-2010

[andrewducker]

• Increase in localism leads to increased social stratficiation and nimbyism
  (tags: government housing)
• Amazing (large) image showing worldwide connections on Facebook. Fascinating to note the lack of Russia
  (tags: facebook visualization maps)
• Video of police pulling protester from wheelchair
  (tags: bbc police video)
• Stem cell transplant has cured HIV infection (in only one patient so far, but it's a start!)
  (tags: hiv medicine science health aids disease)
• Economic growth not correlated with happiness. Not terribly shocking, that.
  (tags: economics money happiness)
• Bea Arthur Was A Truck-Driving Marine
  (tags: history wwii)
• A useful page to tell if you Gawker account was leaked?
  (tags: security)
• Washing machine industry set for massive paradigm shift? I'm sceptical - anyone got more?
  (tags: technology washing clothes)
• Lipstick On My Colar, a discussion of Susan and Narnia
  (tags: Narnia writing sexuality religion)

Comments

[andrewducker]

You might find this useful/interesting:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/10/world-map-of-social-networks-shows-facebooks-ever-increasing-dominance/

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

My point exactly. Although it's weird that you linked me to an article about an article, not the (slightly more useful and detailed) article itself.

There's interesting discrepancies, in much the same way as with MMOs, as to what different networks refer to as "active users". Some MMOs used to be quite cagey about that sort of thing, for obvious reasons.

[andrewducker]

I hadn't seen the article itself. Serves me right for skim-reading.

I'd love to know how many people check in to FB 1/month, week, day and hour :->

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

I'm sure I saw FB claiming that half the users log in every day, but it wasn't clear if they meant that, of their users, there are half of them who always use it daily, or that every day around half of their total users log in.

FB is also a games/scheduling platform, so knowing the frequency of people using it doesn't tell you precisely what they're using it for, which other networks would be awfully interested in. If, of those 500 million, half of them were JUST playing games, well, that'd put a very different spin on the network's dominance.