I came across this rather beautiful info-graphic recently and thought I’d share it with anybody who hasn’t seen it yet. The work of Facebook intern Paul Butler - this map visualises the connections between Facebook friends across the world. Here’s what Paul had to say on his masterpiece:

“I was interested in seeing how geography and political borders affected where people lived relative to their friends. I wanted a visualization that would show which cities had a lot of friendships between them.”

I thought I’d take a look at it and see what information I could glean as an International SEO and Social professional.

The number of web users in Latin America continues to grow yearly at an impressive rate. Social media has proved especially popular among latinos with Argentina, Brazil and Mexico joining the global top ten social consumers in under two years. Many of OBAN's clients have identified the emerging Latin American economies as a great target for online expansion and to do so require international seo services. In this article OBAN provides an overview on how this cornerstone of SEM is consumed in Latin America and what businesses can do to exploit it.

Anybody keeping an eye on the news will be aware of Rupert Murdoch's impending catastrophe. More and more potential buyers renounced their bid for MySpace and left the negotiations altogether. Shortly before Murdoch's self set deadline, the offers for the social network MySpace were way below the 100 million dollar mark.

To Murdoch's frustration, last Thursday, the network that was once valued at 580 million dollars changed hands for just 35 million dollars.

The descent of MySpace is just another example of the untouchable power of Facebook, the Goliath of social networking world. This social network-hierarchy had changed as far back as 2007, but the question is...

Latest reports revealed that Facebook and the Chinese search company "Baidu" are considering a deal for a new social Network in China.

As of March 31st 2011, Facebook had as many as 664 million subscribers worldwide, meaning that one third of worldwide internet users are signed up to Facebook.

The creation of the new Chinese networking platform would mean another big step in Facebook's attempt to conquer the world.

A recent survey confirmed the growing popularity of Facebook in the Arab world, revealing that there are more Facebook users than newspaper readers in the region. 

According to the research, by Dubai-based Spot On Public Relations agency, there are more than 15 million subscribers to Facebook in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) while the total number of newspaper copies in the region is just under 14 million.