Here’s how to easily put your Facebook pics on your Google+ profile.

StartGooglePlus has step-by-step instructions to ensure all your precious snapshots get to their new home without breaking.

Transfer pictures at StartGooglePlus.

Facebook Friend Exporter, now a BANNED Chrome extension, allowed more than 43,000 people to export details of their Facebook friends, including their names, email addresses, phone numbers, websites, addresses and birthdays. This information could be imported directly into Gmail address book or could be saved as a CSV file.

According to Facebook Friend Exporter

Get *your* data contact out of Facebook, whether they want you to or not. You gave them your friends and allowed them to store that data, and you have right to take it back out! Facebook doesn’t own my friends.

Facebook is making every effort to stop users from using Google+, one feature on which they are stressing a lot is exporting facebook friends to Google+. They have not only banned Facebook Friend Exporter and other similar extensions but have also started to remove email addresses from profiles in an attempt to keep users away from Google+. Despite their best efforts its Facebook partnership with Yahoo that has proven to be a life saver or in this face friend saver.

How to Import Facebook Contacts to Google+

By following  the simple steps below you will be able  to export all your facebook contacts to Google+

Step 1: Sign up into your Yahoo mail account -> Contacts tab -> Import contacts.

Step 2: Click Facebook logo, and allow the application to share contacts.

Step 3: Select all your facebook contacts by clicking the check box as shown in the image below.

Step 4: Go to Tools and select Export.

Step5: Download the file in CSV format as explained in the image.

Step 6: Go to gmail, Contacts tab and create a group named Facebook for your new contacts to land into.

Step 7: After step 6 go into more actions tab and press import and select the Yahoo CSV file that you made in step 5.

Step 8: Go to Google+ and Circles tab, then Add and Invite and they’re all there!

Congratulations!!! you have successfully exported all your facebook friends to Google Plus via Yahoo.

Would you like an invite to Google+?

Let me know via Twitter @Lavalilly

Bing is Microsoft’s newest search and is already a significantly more competitive product that Live Search.  While Bing rates higher than Yahoo in initial polls, it still falls below Google. This isn’t surprising, as the Google brand influences many of us before we even try the competition. (Think Kleenex or Saran Wrap). It’s a hike to get past Google’s branding.

In addition, the search giant is the default de jour in Apple’s Safari and Mozilla’s Firefox and the Google toolbar comes pre-installed in many new PC’s. Microsoft is budgeting $80-100m in advertising, but will this be enough to change our search habits?

I, like many techies, jumped in and used bing for a few days and found it to be impressive…but like many, I reverted back to the “tried and true” Google, mostly because it is where I am comfortable.

Intuitive Features

A few things I like about Bing? The features seem more intuitive than other searches. The table of contents feature, the enhanced search history, the pop-up balloon showing a glimpse of content, the cool panel to the left of my search – giving me more specific searches.

Want to take a test drive?

A great place to do this is on the new site: Bing vs. Google.  Here you can see real time results side-by-side and compare for yourself.

I “binged” it?

Honestly, I think Bing looks better and acts more intelligent, and I think it may actually be a better search engine…but moving me from my comfort zone will take a little effort.

Marketing will help, but Bing will have to gain the “hip” factor and that’s a marketing strategy in itself; it doesn’t require $100m in marketing… just good old fashioned word of mouth.

My favorite example of word of mouth marketing is presenting this question “Did you ever see a Google ad?”

Well, Microsoft really can’t call Google for advice…maybe they should give Twitter a call.  My advice to Bing?  Listen. A lot. Because the masses will determine your future, not your marketing dollars.

As our digital and physical lives blur further, the internet has become the information hub where people spend a majority of their time learning, playing and communicating with others globally.

Sometimes it is easy to lose sight of just how staggering the numbers are of people collaborating, researching, and interacting on the web.

I thought it might be fun to take a step back and look at some interesting/amazing social media, Web 2.0, crowdsourcing and internet statistics. I tried to find stats that are the most up-to-date as possible at the time of publishing this post.

The numbers presented below should be a close representation of today’s numbers (please correct me in the comments if you find more recent numbers somewhere and I’ll update).

Let’s break them down by section:

Google search stats:

1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) – approximate number of unique URLs in Google’s index (source)

2,000,000,000 (two billion) – very rough number of Google searches daily (source)

$110,000,000 – approximately amount of money lost by Google annually due to the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button (source)

24,400 – number of people employed by Google (December, 2008)

68,000,000 – the average number of times people Googled the word Google each month for the last year (source: keyword tool)

$39.96 – the average cost per click for the phrase “consolidation of school loans” in AdWords (source: keyword tool)

1,430,000 – the number of Google results for “Robert Scoble”

136,000 – the number of Google results for “Admiral Ackbar”

Wikipedia stats

2,695,205 – the number of articles in English on Wikipedia

684,000,000 – the number of visitors to Wikipedia in the last year

75,000 – the number of active contributors to Wikipedia

10,000,000 – the number of total articles in Wikipedia in all languages

260 – the number of languages articles have been written in on Wikipedia (source)

YouTube stats

70,000,000 – number of total videos on YouTube (March 2008)

200,000 – number of video publishers on YouTube (March 2008)

100,000,000 – number of YouTube videos viewed per day (this stat from 2006 is the most recent I could locate)

112,486,327 – number of views the most viewed video on YouTube has (January, 2009)

2 minutes 46.17 seconds – average length of video

412.3 years – length in time it would take to view all content on YouTube (March 2008)

26.57 – average age of uploader

13 hours – amount of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute

US $1.65 billion in Google stock – amount Google Inc. announced that it had acquired YouTube for in October 2006

$1,000,000 – YouTube’s estimated bandwidth costs per day
(sources here, here and here)

Blogosphere stats

133,000,000 – number of blogs indexed by Technorati since 2002

346,000,000 – number of people globally who read blogs (comScore March 2008)

900,000 – average number of blog posts in a 24 hour period

1,750,000 – number of RSS subscribers to TechCrunch, the most popular Technology blog (January 2009)

77% – percentage of active Internet users who read blogs

55% – percentage of the blogosphere that drinks more than 2 cups of coffee per day (source)

81 – number of languages represented in the blogosphere

59% – percentage of bloggers who have been blogging for at least 2 years

source

Twitter stats

1,111,991,000 – number of Tweets to date (see an up to the minute count here)

3,000,000 – number of Tweets/day(March 2008) (from TechCrunch)

165,414 – number of followers of the most popular Twitter user (@BarackObama) – but he’s not active

86,078 – number of followers of the most active “non-celebrity” Twitter user (@kevinrose)

63% – percentage of Twitter users that are male (from Time)

Facebook stats

200,000,000 – number of active users

100,000,000 – number of users who log on to Facebook at least once each day

170 – number of countries/territories that use Facebook

35 – number of different languages used on Facebook

2,600,000,000 – number of minutes global users in aggregate spend on Facebook daily

100 – number of friends the average user has

700,000,000 – number of photos added to Facebook monthly

52,000 – number of applications currently available on Facebook

140 – number of new applications added per day
source

Digg stats

236,000,000 – number of visitors attracted annually by 2008 (according to a Compete survey)

56% – percentage of Digg’s frontpage content allegedly controlled by top 100 users

124,340 – number of stories MrBabyMan, the number one user, has Dugg (see updated number here)

612 – number of stories from Cracked.com that have made page 1 of Digg (see all 41 pages of them here)

36,925 – number of Diggs the most popular story in the last 365 days has received (see story here)