How much is your value to Facebook?

If you are an active user of Facebook, you can now sort of find out how much you are worth exactly. Today it was announced that Microsoft bought a 1.6% stake of Facebook at the price of $240 million, giving Facebook a valuation of $15 billion. With currently 42 million active members worldwide one can assert a quasi-accurate account of how much a single active user of Facebook is worth.

$15 billion / 42 million users = $357.14 / user

Not too shabby...

Just Say No... to Google???

A perspective is very important when it comes to where you want to work. If you have worked a few years, you begin to have a feel for what your preferences are when it comes to work. Here is an interesting look from a former Microsoft employee who quit, founded a start up, then was acquired by Google. Supposedly Google is a very 'closed' off company compared to the transparency of Microsoft. This memo has been making rounds through out the Microsoft internal emailing list. It is quite long, but tries to explain a great deal about life at Google, including 20%, management structure, work hours, benefits, the food, etc. Take a read and get a good eye into Google work life.

http://no2google.wordpress.com/2007/06/24/life-at-google-the-microsoftie-perspective/