Thursday, February 2, 2012

Morning Reading 2.2.2012

Morning Reading: Facebook Edition
Facebook files their S-1 in anticipation of an IPO.  It is worth a gander for the amazing usage rate facts alone (92 million daily users . . . that is 92,000,000 people using their website EVERY DAY! . . . . . oh and wait, that was in the first quarter of 2009, now the average daily user figure is 483,000,000 DAILY.  It should be noted that this is "users" not "people" because of corporate accounts.  Still outrageous.)
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000119312512034517/d287954ds1.htm

Stainless steel is overrated.  So are granite countertops.  I am more upset about the "kitchen bubble" than the "housing bubble", although they went/go hand in hand - The Atlantic (Megan McArdle)
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/02/how-did-stainless-steel-appliances-get-so-popular/252385/

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