You've been hearing about it for months. Facebook is going public tomorrow, and it's going to be big. Massive. Crazy. Expect to see tiny little dollar signs in everybody's pupils.

Facebook just announced the pricing of its initial public offering, setting it at $38 per share of its 421,233,615 shares in common stock and raising $16 to $18.4 billion, valuing the company at $104 billion. Just for an interesting reference, Google's IPO valuation was priced at $24.6 billion and was criticized of being overvalued at the time of offering on August 19, 2004.

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Although Facebook's offering is indeed the biggest tech/Internet IPO we've ever seen, it only ranks second behind Visa as the biggest IPO of all time. Visa Inc.'s public offering in 2008 brought in $19.65 billion.

Still, the IPO is extremely impressive for a website that started off less than a decade ago as a something college kids mainly used to share drunk bar photos of themselves. Very impressive, indeed.

Facebook shares will begin trading on the NASDAQ under the symbol "FB" tomorrow, May 18.

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On Wednesday, Google revealed that it would be implementing something new called the Knowledge Graph, so don't be surprised if you notice something different about your Google searches. After all, it's there to benefit you.

The general idea of the new Knowledge Graph is to deliver more search results now that Google understands relationships and connections between strings of words.

Most of us can say that we've tried typing a phrase into Google hoping for only the best, only to discover obscure and totally irrelevant results pop up.

Now, Google is able to tell the difference between certain trends. Take them ambiguous term "penguins" as an example. You may be looking for information on the NHL hockey team or the Antarctic bird.

Whichever specific meaning for you're looking for, Google can identify the difference and lump related search results according to each entity now. A new window should appear on the side asking which particular meaning you want to know more about.

And this is good. Google has come one step closer to delivering the best search results that it can.

Check out Wednesday's blog post from the official Google blog on the Knowledge Graph to find out more.

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Just a decade ago, we never could have imagined how interconnected our lives would become today, thanks to social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Tumblr, Pinterest and all the rest of them.

The International Telecommunication Union released a new report revealing that the number of people who use social media sites have passed one billion, and most of our social media activity is coming from mobile devices.

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It's not much of a surprise, given that Facebook now has over 900 million users and the extreme popularity of smartphone devices and tablet computers continues to grow.

The social web and the mobile web are still very young, so there's no telling what the next big trend might be ten or twenty years from now. But if you'd like to experience kind of an interesting perspective on how the web has grown and evolved since its creation, I recommend checking out my latest "must read" article, The Evolution of the Web in 1000 Words.

And if you haven't checked out the latest spotlight article yet on the top five free cloud storage services, I suggest you do that as well!

This is going to be a big week for the web. I can feel it. (Facebook IPO, anyone? Yep, it's coming!)

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Well, that was fast, wasn't it? Viddy is definitely one of those apps that seems like it came out of nowhere with a user base exploding practically overnight, kind of like what we saw with Draw Something back in February and March.

But unlike Draw Something, Viddy is showing no signs of slowing down.

After just a couple weeks, Viddy managed to attract over 27 million users and is adding about half a million new users each day.

And according to Venture Beat, the creators of Viddy just closed $30 million funding round.

Things sure are looking up for this little video app.

Viddy's huge success kind of caught me by surprise, especially since I had experimented once with a similar app called Keek. I had been rooting for Keek, partly because it was awesome and partly because it's a Toronto-based startup. Unfortunately, it hasn't experienced the same viral success that Viddy has recently seen.

If you want to learn more about Viddy, check out my review.

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