More according to http://www.statista.com

• In 2011, the total population of China was around 1.35 billion people. Life expectancy in China was 73.3 years for people born in 2009.
• The country is on track to overtake the United States as the world’s largest economy within the next decade. In 2010, the GDP of China was 5.88 trillion U.S. dollars.
• China overtook Germany as the world’s leading exporter and now tops the ranking of the world’s largest export nations with a total export value of 1.58 trillion U.S. dollars in 2010. 20% of all exports go to US.
• Distribution of the workforce across economic sectors in China from 1998 to 2008. In 2008, 39.6 percent of the workforce were employed in agriculture, 27.2 percent in manufacturing and 33.2 percent in services.
• 4th Quarter 2009 to 4th Quarter 2011 – In the fourth Quarter of 2009, the index value for the business expectations in China stood at 127.7 points.

Infographic stolen from Mashable

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We used to have to create these, tape them to the wall and get laughed at for being geeks. Now it’s cool (kewl).

Imagine that?!

Loving this one at the moment:
The New Updated Facebook Cheat Sheet of Sizes and Dimensions

Yes, it really is a technocruze, technocruze folks.

Coding to save energy

Facebook developed HipHop for PHP, which is a source code transformer – converting PHP code to C++. With HipHop, we reduced the CPU usage on Facebook Web servers by an average of about 50%. Less CPU usage means fewer servers, which means less energy use.

Thinking of adding this to the Sustainable Web Design Knol?

We Love You!

Source: frugaldad.com

“Obviously there’s no censorship in the bill and no one can indicate any censorship whatsoever. It’s not censorship to want to stop illegal activity,” Smith told the publication. “That’s all we do. We’re trying to impede illegal activity by foreign websites.”

Lamar Smith (R-Texas)
House Judiciary Committee Chairman
http://mashable.com/2012/01/18/sopa-not-over

“The Internet is not a free zone where anybody can do anything they want to do and trample the rights of other people.”

Rick Santorum
Former Senator
2012 Candidate for President
http://mashable.com/2012/01/19/sopa-threat-freedom
Rick Santorum Defending SOPA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5iY5Sll72k

“’This is altogether a new effect,’ Mr. Dodd said, comparing the online movement to the Arab Spring. He could not remember seeing ‘an effort that was moving with this degree of support change this dramatically’ in the last four decades, he added.”

In another statement, Dodd said Wikipedia and Google’s protests are meant to “intentionally skew the facts to incite their users in order to further their corporate interests.”

http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=23833&count=0#ixzz1k2bTC7Nr

Chris Dodd
Former Senator (8 months ago)
Current Motion Picture Association of America Chairman

Country Wide Mortgage Scandal
http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/top-5/2008/06/12/Countrywide-Loan-Scandal/
“Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.”
-Eric Holder
U.S. Attorney General

Former Partner in Covington Law Firm. Fannie Mae Scandal

I’ll add more as time permits…

More Resources

• http://www.sopastrike.com/numbers

Most folks will never go to Facebook to do their searches. Doesn’t mean Facebook on page seo should be overlooked in any way. I’m still using fbml to give my clients an advantage in search for example. This holds even if Facebook stops hiding business page content from Google today.

Aside: Search rose in popularity because of the interface design or lack thereof. We’ll see the same during the next feature contraction of the Internet -maybe in 2012.

Facebook is big but it’s not going get bigger than search unless and until they merge with Microsoft and Yahoo Search, which they may do. See: http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-microsoft-receive-go-ahead-to-implement-search-deal-36465 They still will not be bigger than “search” as a result but they could become the most popular search engine. For Facebook Pages or Twitter to be more popular than Google Pages, Facebook would need to be more popular than search itself.
I agree with: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/11/google-plus-pages/

Facebook Pages are of course much more popular and helpful to business owners right now “in the social space.” But unless they open their content to Google’s index, they’ll stay confined to the Facebook Search ecology.

The likelyhood that “Google Pages” will be easier to find requires business owners and marketers to take notice. Especially while Facebook continues to exclude content from the google.

Therefore, I continue to recommend Facebook business pages and the expansion thereof for business owners. Today I’m hoping my clients will jump into the url grab and secure their brand on Google Pages.

If I’m right, Google Pages will rank better and offer better longterm roi as a result. If I’m wrong, no mattah, good having both.

As a Google Solution Provider I’m simply sharing that my first experiences with Google Pages have been “really” positive.

Reminds me of the worst in government free market interference and I do believe it hinges on the presidential elections. Maybe this is why Eric Schmidt is leaving Google? Would Eric pull a Jim Barksdale?

Google Yourself today to see why any of this is important. Maybe read:

http://www.linkedin.com/today/article?articleID=5562883665060433921&trk=tod-home-art

Why Google Plus Pages (Will) Beat Facebook. And Twitter

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/11/google-plus-pages/

Washington, D.C.
December 1, 1862

One month before signing the Emancipation Proclamation, President Lincoln sent a long message to Congress which was largely routine, but also proposed controversial measures such as voluntary colonization of slaves and compensated emancipation.

Lincoln devoted so much attention to preparing the message that his friend David Davis said, “Mr. Lincoln’s whole soul is absorbed in his plan of remunerative emancipation.” The concluding paragraphs shown below demonstrate Lincoln’s passion for this plan and contain some of the most famous statements he ever wrote. Composer Aaron Copeland used excerpts in his evocative “Lincoln Portrait.”

I do not forget the gravity which should characterize a paper addressed to the Congress of the nation by the Chief Magistrate of the nation. Nor do I forget that some of you are my seniors, nor that many of you have more experience than I, in the conduct of public affairs. Yet I trust that in view of the great responsibility resting upon me, you will perceive no want of respect yourselves, in any undue earnestness I may seem to display.

Is it doubted, then, that the plan I propose, if adopted, would shorten the war, and thus lessen its expenditure of money and of blood? Is it doubted that it would restore the national authority and national prosperity, and perpetuate both indefinitely? Is it doubted that we here–Congress and Executive–can secure its adoption? Will not the good people respond to a united, and earnest appeal from us? Can we, can they, by any other means, so certainly, or so speedily, assure these vital objects? We can succeed only by concert. It is not “can any of us imagine better?” but, “can we all do better?” The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise — with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it. We — even we here — hold the power, and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless.

Source: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler.

Get the Latitude and Longitude of a Point
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GeoHash
http://geohash.org

Hint: Bing uses these so get the right meta tags (consider ICBM) into your pages and go hyper-local.

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