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Beautiful picture. Today was a great Chrostmas here in Floirda! - Michael VanDervort

Wow - beautiful end to a great day. Thanks for sharing Robert! - Tim Ake

One thing: all my Flickr photos are straight off of the sensor. No Photoshop or anything involved. If I did that this would turn even more spectacular. - Robert Scoble

Other photos are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos... including one of Steve Jurvetson's house. He invested in Hotmail. What a view he has from his windows. - Robert Scoble

Gorgeous! Thanks for posting. @swoodruff - Steve Woodruff

That's a stunning picture! :) - Ange Recchia/angesbiz

Lovely! -- I hope you and the Scobles are having a lovely holiday. - Chuck

Chuck: one of the best in recent memory. I think the economy is forcing me to look at the gifts we have, rather than the gifts we want. - Robert Scoble

That said, imagine what this would have looked like if I had a new 5D MKII. :-) - Robert Scoble

We didn't buy any family gifts this year, except stocking stiffers. Donated to charity with meals and teen/kid toys. Had family breakfast and dinner. Best Christmas in a decade - Michael VanDervort

Perfectly captured! - Cheryl Smith

Wow, great shot! - Tyson Key

Gorgeous...totally worth the frozen buns! hahaha - Susan Beebe

What wonderful breathtaking nature that God has provided to us. Thanks be to God! - Alvin

Great picture! I hope you and your family had an amazing holiday! :) - Justin Levy

Effulgent Shekhinah - Mason Lee

Great shot! - Michael Fidler

I like your previous shot just a little better, Bob. http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Mitch

American christmas should snowing？The Hollywood Movis alway give me this impression。But your picture so wonderful and peaceful！Thank you scoble！ - jedorstar

@jedorstar - The Hollywood Movies are awash in false or contrived information about America. - Rob Sterling

How so? Numbers? or what? - Cheryl Smith

Facebook is adding 600,000 people a day. Twitter is rumored to be about 6 million users. - Robert Scoble

And every second Twitter grows my blog. - Håkan Dahlström

users?? - Francisco Kemeny

Does each of those growth segments matter as much as Twitter though? I think not. But it gives an interesting perspective. - Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct

You mean they're adding "small countries" every 10 days ;) - Dana Fosburgh

Twitter is for bloggers (@ this time...). Facebook is for people. Why? Most people will never have a blog. And that's okay! - Catholic Meme

Agree, Fransisco. HUGE difference between a subscriber and a user. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

how many of the users twitter users that join are real people and not spammers. & the same with facebook. - James Bayliss

Twitter is for bloggers? Nah, I don't think that's true. Many people use it via mobile for simple communications. Some of them have no clue about this whole blog thing. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

WOW those growth stats are mind numbing....impressive!!! - Susan Beebe

I can see this happening. Some of my friends and family that a few years ago I never imagined would even get internet access, much less join a social network are now signing up for Facebook. This includes the ones that are concerned with privacy. - Allen Blair

Twitter is for everybody. Facebook and blogs aren't. <-- the secret to Twitter's success! - Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct

My husband was talking with his 70+ yo mom last night about FB. Her sister is on, updating status and playing scrabble. It's a great way to keep family members engaged, in addition to the many business applications. - Cheryl Smith

More and more of the "normal" people I know in real life are joining FB. None of them have ever heard of Twitter. - Andy Roth

6 Million users a day? You have got to be kidding? That is not per month? - Darin aka iGoByDoc

Meh. Short term statistics are nice, but especially when talking about growth you need to consider product life-cycles and exogenous trend-changing events. - David Wynn from fftogo

One Twitter = 100 Identi.Ca? - David Parmet from twhirl

all the more amazing given Facebook has 140 million subscribers. They're growing into the non-techie Mainstream now. - Pete Steege

Facebook usually talks in terms of active users (users who have returned to the site in the last 30 days). And keep in mind, there is almost nothing t do on facebook unless you are regeistered. That helps explain why in the past, their active user numbers have been pretty close to comscore's estimates of their monthly uniques. - Erik S

People's myopia is funny. The techie crowd was never a hugely important audience for Facebook (or even myspace). Both really caght fire by appealing to a generation who grew up with the Net. Probably 90% of the entering class of my alma mater was on Facebook before even a quarter of my techie friends were. That myopia may also cause people to miss progress of techie darlings into the mainstream. Google insights suggests that interest in Twitter has spread well beyond typical tech centers in the past year - Erik S

I think that line is from "It's A Wonderful Life". - Kevin Leroux

Are "twitters" contagious? Will I get one if I share a drink on Facebook? - Marla

Facebook is such as hugely different crowd for me-- even diff't than linkedIn too. I mix it all together, but one needs to be in more than one place these days - Doug Haslam from twhirl

I find very few techies on FB. It is way more social and a lot less network, too "cutesy" than ever with little icons and way too much trivia to wade through. Broadcast vs.cable, again. - Phil Boiarski

I would love to see a visualization of the data over time. Based on the 600K per day, they have added the entire population of New York City and Philadelphia in December. - Rob Diana

Soon Facebook will have to sponsor a breeding program to keep their growth rate up. As a stick they can say have 3 babies or we'll suspend your account. As a carrot, well that doesn't seem necessary. - Todd Hoff

Its still WAY cleaner than the MySpace nightmare zone! - Eric Rost

Echo'ing Erik & Phil. My techie college friends are barely on FB... - Mitchell Tsai