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One in 26 people around the world are now on Facebook, as the social networking site adds 100 million users this year

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that the number of people using the online social networking service has climbed to 250 million.

The California-based Facebook was founded in 2004 and has become the most popular online social networking service, eclipsing News Corporation-owned MySpace.

If Facebook were a country, it would be the 4th-largest in the world (between United States and Indonesia).

The Web site boasts of a number of stats in the billions as well – a billion photos are uploaded each month, more than a billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, etc.) are shared each week, and 5 billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day by users worldwide.

“The rapid pace of our growth is humbling and exciting for us,” Zuckerberg said in a message posted at Facebook’s official blog on Wednesday.

Facebook took just two years to reach an audience of 50 million by October 2007, doubling that figure in less than a year. By January 2009, the Web site had 150 million users, and has been able to add another hundred million users in just seven months.

“For us, growing to 250 million users isn’t just an impressive number; it is a mark of how many personal connections all of you have made.” He added. The average Facebook user has 120 friends, and more than 120 million users log on at least once each day

The world’s most popular social networking website recently revamped its privacy settings, giving users the ability to share as much or as little about themselves online as they want.

Many Facebook users have gotten into trouble with employers and parents who have read updates containing inflammatory remarks or tales and photos of their indiscretions.

Facebook now offers a tiered level of privacy options, including “all of your friends, your friends and people in your school or work networks, and friends of friends.” said Chris Kelly, chief privacy officer at Facebook.

The move was seen as an effort by Facebook to compete with the hot micro-blogging service Twitter.

While its number of users has grown at an amazing clip, Facebook, unlike other Web giants such as Amazon, eBay, Google and Yahoo!, has yet to prove how it is going to translate traffic into cash

A charming little click-and-solve adventure that is more than just a game
If the purpose of video games is entertainment, than Little Wheel is right up there with the best of them. In terms of skill, it demands very little. But for the 10 minutes that you play it, you will be completely enthralled.

The game has a great black-and-beige art style, which goes perfectly with the futuristic world that it portrays. The world is full of living robots, who go about everyday tasks much like humans do today. But all these robots, naturally, are linked to a central power supply.

One day, the main power generator has an accident, which shuts off all the robots. Essentially, the entire world falls into a deep sleep until a bolt of lightning strikes! As it so happens, the lightning strikes Little Wheel, our protagonist and the character you will play as.

As Little Wheel awakens and realises what has happened, a sense of duty compels him to rush to the main power generator and fix the problem.


The entire adventure is a click-and-solve affair, where one sees little items at each point circled. These items can be clicked and used to perform some task. The trick is in figuring out the right combination or sequence in which to click them, as you seek to start elevators and trains, raise bridges and break down huge piles of debris to make your way through.


The game isn’t very difficult, but the presentation is what hooks you in completely. The art is magnificent, right from the colours and tones used to the movements of all the bots, and especially Little Wheel himself.


And then there’s that brilliant jazz soundtrack playing in the background that will have you grooving along to each click. Simply marvelous.

Little Wheel is more than just a game — it’s an experience. Try it out!


Rating: 4.5/5
Site: http://armorgames.com/play/3953/little-wheel

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