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Tech’s Wealthiest Founders [Infograph]

With LinkedIn’s current valuation of $8.16 billion dollars, the 5 LinkedIn founders would rank No. 5, at $274 million each, it seems as though there will be other high-profile IPOs in the near future.

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Manage Your Facebook Page Like Vin Diesel

While names like Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga are synonymous with great social media marketing, the true master is no one other than the Fast Five star, Vin Diesel.

Here’s a screen shot from Vin Diesel’s Facebook Page back in May 2009, where he was at a “mere” 3.5 million fans. Back then, the only person bigger than him on Facebook was President Obama.

According to AllFacebook.com, as of 5/9/2011 Vin Diesel’s Facebook Page had a total of 23,110,014 likes, with a daily growth of 50,704 and a weekly growth of 348,768.

Here’s what you can learn from Vin Diesel about Facebook Page management.

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Watch LinkedIn Grow [pics]

Every Cinco de Mayo LinkedIn celebrates its anniversary.

Back in May 5th, 2003, the LinkedIn network started with just 10 people — the founding employees connected to each other. Since then, it’s grown into one of the world’s largest professional network with more than 100 million professionals in over 200 countries and territories. LinkedIn currently has over 1,000 employees in 12 offices around the world, including London, Paris, Sydney, and Mumbai.

Here are some pretty cool pics that show LinkedIn’s growth in both number of users and number of employees.

linkedin employees — LinkedIn at 500,000 Users

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Why Reddit Continues to be Relevant

Way back in August 2010, the social news website Digg.com updated to version 4 – more or less sealing its doom. The site was down for most of the day, leaving people unable to either search it or use it, and very few of the site’s visitors enjoyed the interface and feature changes which came along with the update.

According to Digg’s top brass, these changes were meant to bring in more revenue to the site, giving corporations and companies more control over content and more exposure for their own content. However, this went against what many people felt was the point of Digg: allowing anyone to potentially make the front page of the site. Traffic to the site took a huge hit and has been trying to rebound ever since.

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‘China’s Facebook’ Renren Seeks NYSE Listing [Data]

According to AsiaTimesOnline.com, Renren, known as the “Facebook of China”, will be listed in the New York Stock Exchange next month, raising up to US$584 million.

Here is a break down of Renren, including demographic and traffic data.

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HootSuite Talks to Spanish Speaking Community

On April 21, 2011 there are several websites down. Among the affected are HootSuite, Reddit, Foursquare and Quora. The problems appear to be caused by an issue affecting the Amazon Web Services. The company claims that are working to resolve the problem. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Relational Database Service and Amazon Elastic Beanstalk also appear to be experiencing problems. The issues were all visible on 4/21/2011 at Amazon’s AWS Service Health Dashboard.

While critics may be quick to point the drawbacks of cloud computing, it is important to keep a cool head and keep a full picture of cloud computing: benefits and drawbacks. Organizations that really heavily on cloud computing need to have an appropriate plan of action to tackle downtime problems.

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