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Mark Zuckerberg Is The Most Followed User On Google+
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In what has to be somewhat embarrassing for Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the most followed user on Google+, according to the Google+ Statistics counter. The Facebook CEO has 21,213 followers, compared to the Google CEO at 14,798, Google social czar Vic Gundotra at 13,783, Google co-founder Sergey Brin at 11,629, blogger Robert Scoble at 11,389, Google spam avenger Matt Cutts at 9,153, TWIT founder Leo Laporte at 7,566, Google’s Bradley Horowitz at 7,187, TechCrunch’s MG Siegler at 6,579 and blogger Gina Trapani at 5,649. Google+ Statistics creator Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten explains the CEO’s unlikely popularity thus, “He has the most friends in the world, they made a movie about him, and he is more handsome than the Larry and Sergey.”juicy couture I think the answer goes more like this; The more media coverage someone receives related to Google+, the more followers they get, hence MG Siegler at #9. "We're still the Space Coast. We'll always be the Space Coast," Gaedcke says. "NASA's not locking its doors. NASA will still be here. That's the one thing that people don't realize. We still have space, but we won't have the shuttle. There's a big difference." Many of the other high-tech businesses that moved to the area in the years since Apollo to take advantage of the proximity to NASA have branched out to other technologies and will remain and grow, Gaedcke says. Business-development officials are hoping to entice more of them. But they acknowledge that none will be able to replace NASA's shuttle program as a jobs generator. "Commercial space is never going to employ the numbers of people that the shuttle program has employed," Gaedcke said. "We never expected we would tackle this in one fell swoop." Harris Corp. is one of the Space Coast's largest employers, with 6,500 employees at its 3.5 million square foot Brevard County headquarters, says senior vice president Jeff Shuman. The company planted its Melbourne roots with miniaturized electronic and pulse code technologies for America's new space program, but has since branched out to electronic technologies used on communication and weather satellites, among other things. The company's commercial space business is growing, and it has hired some people whose businesses slowed as the space shuttle program shrank, Shuman says. The Florida coast also has a strategic location that allows for both low- and high-orbit launches, a key component for commercial space companies, Shuman says. "There are several new companies that came specifically to the Space Coast because of the talent that's here," Shuman says. Although most would have preferred to keep the shuttle program, Shuman says Brevard County will adapt, as it did after the Apollo program ended. "We get a little concerned about the doom and gloom," Shuman says. "The manned side is slowing down, it's true, but there's a lot more to space than that. Commercial space is a growing area." Brenda Mulberry holds out hope for the return of a manned space program — the type of human space flight that sent chills down her spine 30 years ago. "America has always led in space, and now we're taking second fiddle," Mulberry says. "In the back of my mind, I'm hoping to God that people still care about space. It's been a heck of a ride, let me tell you that, even for people who stayed on the ground."
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Posted on : Jul 5, 2011
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