Last week, photo num­ber 3.000.000.000 was uploaded to Flickr. Yes, they do indeed have a col­lec­tion of 3 tril­lion pic­tures (prob­a­bly includ­ing the pri­vate ones) by now. Unfor­tu­nately, there are no addi­tional stats or data online. What FlickR needs is a Stats Fiend as Seth puts it.

O’Bama did it

70-something days: that’s the remain­ing time span for George Bush as leader of most superla­tiv­i­ous nation in the world. And experts warn that the hardest-disliked pres­i­dent ever might do every­thing to leave behind a right-wing mess. Indeed, if Georgie wants to dam­age civil rights, he’s gotta do it fast — the New York times issued a warn­ing. I was really amazed by the lat­est episode of South Park: these guys tend to react pretty quickly, but this was just hilar­i­ous: Bar­rack and McCain work­ing together to stage the great­est heist ever — I just love this kind of weird humor.

Wanna marry rich? Get a LinkedIn Account

Since oth­er­land is still in the mak­ing, the rich folks are dwell at LinkedIn’s [via TechCrunch]:

Nearly 60% of users have incomes of $93,000 or more. Exec­u­tives with an aver­age income of $104,000 make up 28% of the 2,000 ran­dom users polled for the study. Another 30% are self-identified “con­sul­tants” with an aver­age income of $93,000.

That still doesn’t make the net­work mechan­ics less annoy­ing — but suc­cess­ful entre­pre­neurs kind of seem to enjoy the plea­sure of con­nec­tion requests.

The SEOsphere week

Twit­ter is rais­ing a cou­ple of eye­brows: the ever­last­ing fight against spam­mers tak­ing over has entered the next round, as Twit­ter announced that there’s an inter­nal black­list: if your account is on the list, nobody can fol­low you — and it even might get deleted at some point. That’s not the way SEOs like it, but whatcha gonna do? The gold rush is over, the mas­ter of the walled gar­den is just doing his duty.

And that’s pretty much it for this week. Btw: the one-day delay was caused by my trip to Graz in Styria where Ele­vate Fes­ti­val took place. DJ Spooky, Dan­ton Eep­rom and gazil­lions of other DJs rocked the floors. And Pro­fes­sor Lorenz, head of pro­gram­ming of Aus­trias pub­lic (and state-financed) tele­vi­sion dropped a leg­endary line dur­ing the open­ing dis­cus­sion: “I don’t care about this shit-internet”, he said, and indeed he clearly did not intend to make a joke, as he is pretty sure that TV is the most influ­en­tial media. I’m kinda glad that mighty Moe makes it so easy for aver­age Joe! Thanks for watch­ing read­ing, c u next week.