Is Facebook worth $ 15 billion?

What started in 2004 as a semi-private social networking site for students in Harvard seems to have become a major craze around the world.

Facebook now has 50 million users worldwide and is adding another 200,000 every day!Recognising its worth for 15 interesting reasons, Microsoft recently bought a 1.6 % share in Facebook for $ 240 million. That puts a value of $ 15 billion for a company which has been in existence only for 3.5 years.

BBC News has some illuminating perspectives on why Microsoft values Facebook so highly.

Oh, yeah. If you haven’t joined the millions yet, join Facebook here.

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Fly the Airbus A 380

Today, was the first commercial flight of the world’s largest jetliner the Airbus 380. It flew from Singapore to Sydney.

The A 380 can carry…hold your breath….555 passengers in a three-class configuration. It’s take off weight is 544.3 tonnes. It’s length is 72.6 m and it’s height is 24.1 m with a wingspan of 79.8 m. A nice interactive site at Singapore Airlines gives you all the information about their A 380.

The Singapore Airlines plane has 399 economy class seats on both decks, and on the upper deck 60 business class seats that can turn into flat beds to accommodate an adult and a child comfortably.

Most of the places for the inaugural flight on the 471-seat double-decker plane were auctioned for charity on eBay, raising more than $US1.25 million ($A1.41 million).

The flight itself took 7 and a half hours in the A380 which is as tall as a seven-story building with each wing big enough to hold about 70 mid-sized cars.