Designers at Visually have compiled this infographic that documents the startup’s journey from photo app to $1 billion startup using, appropriately, Instagram photos. Via Mashable

Surprisingly Travel doesn’t track high on important topics for this social media site.  —– Via Business Insider What are people doing on Pinterest? RJMetrics broke [...]

Take outs: 30% of mobile phone users spend an average of about 27 minutes each day text messaging, using the telephone and video chatting Not all smartphones: 5.9 billion out of the 7 billion [...]

Facebook says it has 800 million active users.   Building a chart based on previous user number announcements, iCrossings says Facebook will probably reach 1 billion [...]

Fluff – Did somebody watch Minority Report on the weekend and then decide to put together 'The Future'.  Take outs Apparently everything is going to be white, blue and green.  [...]

Via Mashable: Quick Pitch: Tagstand is an NFC platform that simplifies the NFC stack for businesses and developers. Genius Idea: Program and manage NFC stickers on the web. [...]

In terms of past events: Super Bowl 2011 saw 4,064 TPS New Years Eve 2010 in Japan, which hit 6,939 TPS at its peak. Japanese earthquake and Tsunami in March, Twitter usage reached 5,530 TPS. [...]

Via B&T Nearly half of all Australians now own a smartphone with that figure expected to rise to 60% in the next 12 months according to a major Telstra study. Article Highlights Around 46% of [...]

Edited version: Location app Foursquare announced $50 million in additional funding today, valuing the 2-year-old company at a reported $600 million. What will Foursquare ad deals and [...]

Via News.com.au For the first time ever, people in the US are spending more time using mobile phone apps than browsing the web. What that means, basically, is less of "facebook.com" and [...]