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4th of July in Pismo Beach Pictures

The people on Pismo Beach had a great day!

There were Vendors in the Pier Parking lot selling all kinds of food, clothes and other merchandise.

Over 80 l Sea Cadets provided a First Aid Station for the 4th of July and helped at check point stations.
They also assisted beach goers with plastic trash bags to use and leave on the beach, to help keep the
beach clean.

The several hundred people enjoyed VIP seating for the fireworks on the Pier with coffee donated by Starbucks, and cookies, lemon bars and brownies donated by Splash Café Artisan Bakery.

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The downtown improvement district would assess property owners in a specific downtown area for added services such as security and marketing. Hotels outside the downtown district’s boundaries would not be charged.

Klein said he is worried about having to pay both assessments.

“It’s a little burdensome when you talk about these extra expenses and revenues being down,” Klein said.

Another worry for bureau supporters: Can a new tourism taxing district be created in just seven months?

Eben notes that about 45 cities or counties have some form of a tourism improvement district. One new tourism district, serving Napa County, took nine months to form.

For Fresno, “the clock is ticking,” said Smith with the Chamber of Commerce.

The Convention and Visitors Bureau has a long and sometimes chaotic past.

The Fresno Convention Bureau was born soon after World War II, the Convention Center opened in 1966, and a separate Visitors Bureau was created in the mid-1980s.

The merged Fresno Convention and Visitors Bureau opened for business July 1, 1987.

From the start, the CVB struggled to define its mission and secure its funding. Did it focus on the entire county or the Fresno metropolitan area? Were conventions the answer to growth, or tourists heading to the Sierra Nevada? Should Fresno County contribute more money?

The CVB also was plagued with periodic organizational disputes and public-relations black eyes. For example, in October 2007 a former CVB bookkeeper was jailed for embezzling nearly $50,000 from the nonprofit agency.

Through it all, Fresno City Hall stuck with the CVB, although often with grumbling from top elected officials. They said the city had too much borrowed money plowed into its Convention Center, and too much political capital invested in downtown revitalization plans — based in significant part on a thriving convention and meeting business — to risk completely eliminating this troubled marketing entity.

Now Fresno City Hall faces a nearly $31 million general fund deficit through 2015 and Swearengin is scrounging for every dollar just to keep police on neighborhood patrol.

What becomes of the Convention Center, which costs the city about $7 million annually in debt payments and subsidies, if the CVB dies? What becomes of downtown revitalization, not to mention such downtown employers as the Radisson and the recently reopened Holiday Inn, if the Convention Center becomes a set of largely empty buildings?

Referring to City Hall’s decision to cut off CVB funding by Dec. 31, the Chamber’s Smith said, “I’m not so sure I understand the wisdom of that. It seems to me if we own the convention buildings and a theater, somebody needs to keep putting conventions through there. That benefits the city.”

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-       Second largest site on the web

-       400 million active global users

-       50% of active users log into the site each day. This equates to at least 175m users every 24 hours.

-       More than 35m Facebook users update their status each day.

-       Photo uploads have increased by more than 100% – Today there are 2.5bn uploads each month

-       Back in 2009, the average user had 120 friends within Facebook. This is now around 130.

-       There are more than 3.5bn pieces of content shared each week on Facebook.

-       More than 700,000 local businesses have active Pages on Facebook.

-       Purpose-built Facebook pages have created more than 5.3bn fans.

-       About 70% of Facebook users are outside the USA.

-       There are more than 70 translations available

-       More than 250 Facebook applications have over a million combined users each month.

-       More than 80,000 websites have implemented Facebook Connect since December 2008 and more than 60m Facebook users engage with it across these external sites each month.

-       Mobile is even bigger than before for Facebook, with more than 65m users accessing the site through mobile-based devices

YouTube

-       Third largest Site on the Internet

-       Largest video site on the web

-       1 billion views per day (that’s 11,574 per second, 694,444 per minute, or 41,666,667 per hours)

-       10 billion videos uploaded per month

-       More than 200 million minutes of video (or 34, 560 hours), is now uploaded onto YouTube per day

-       24 Hours of video uploaded every minute

-       Lady GaGa first online Artist with 1 billion video views

LinkedIn

-       LinkedIn has over 64m members worldwide.

-       There are now 11m LinkedIn users across Europe.

-       India is currently the fastest-growing country to use LinkedIn, with around 3m total users.

Twitter

-       Twitter now has 75m user accounts, but only around 15m are active users on a regular basis. It’s still a fair increase from the estimated 6-10m global users from a few months ago.

-       Towards the end of last year, the average number of tweets per day was over 27.3 million.

-       The average number of tweets per hour was around 1.3m.

-       At the current rate, Twitter will process almost 10bn tweets in a single year.

SOURCE:  insideea.com

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Last we looked at the private markets where Facebook stock is traded, the company had an implied valuation of well over $22 billion.

That means lots of Facebook employees, ex-employees, investors and other stakeholders are, on paper, wealthy enough that their children and their children’s children will never have to work.

And when Facebook finally IPOs sometime in 2011 or 2012, that paper wealth is going turn into spendable cash.

Hello,  yachts and huge houses.

Accel Partners owns 10% of Facebook, worth $2.2 billion

Digital Sky Technologies owns 10% of Facebook, worth $2.2 billion

Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz, no longer with the company, owns 6%, worth $1.3 billion

Eduardo Saverin, a Facebook cofounder who once sued the company, owns 5%, worth $1.1 billion

Former Facebook president Sean Parker, fired over a drug arrest, owns 4 percent, worth $880 million

Facebook’s first outside investor, Peter Thiel, owns 3%, worth $660 million

SOURCE: www.businessinsider.com

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Our guess is that Facebook crossed 500 million some time ago, and is just preparing the announcement now in order to bounce bad news out of the press.

(Last week, Facebook told Search Engine Land “the user number milestones we announce publicly do not always correspond to the exact date we reach these milestones.”

“We sometimes hold a growth milestone announcement to correspond with another announcement (such as a product launch), so the number may be significantly higher on the date we actually make the announcement.”

Facebook announced that it had crossed the 400 million user make on February 4.

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