Indeed. Stupidity is bottomless. You can get dizzy gazing into it.

...so I am not a passive listener. There is no such thing as "background music" for me. I can either listen to music or concentrate on the task at hand. I supposed it could be considered a curse (like perfect pitch, which I do not have, thank gods), but I cannot imagine life any other way.

By increasing the size of the IPO, they are offering closer to 15% of the shares, rather than 10%.

At a price of $34/share, the market cap will be north of $120 billion, and the price on Day 1 could spike much higher than that, when all the rubes jump into the secondary market.

Facebook may never again have a market capitalization greater than it will on its first day of trading.

Quoting the article that you cite, "Researcher Soraya Mehdizadeh from York University in Canada asked 100 students, 50 male and 50 female, aged between 18 and 25 about their Facebook habits."

Clearly, that is not a representative sample of 900 million people. Your unwarranted generalization is rejected.

Woz knows that making some controversial statements from time to time keeps him from falling into obscurity. He doesn't seriously expect that Apple will follow his advice.

Scott Hanselman is a principal program manager at Microsoft. (I am not joking.)

No. Revenue is the same, whether you use the service or not. If customers are not using an unlimited service that is included in their plans, it reduces the provider's costs (very slightly), which might improve earnings, but would not increase (or decrease) revenue.

Case in point: moderation, karma points, meta-moderation, friends, fans, freaks and foes. Gamification of an otherwise dry forum.

The strategic or tactical value of a target may have little to do with its economic value.