5x50 Challenge is coming

3 Days to go.

I've signed up for the 5x50 Challenge. It's 5k a day for 50 days with the aim of changing habits for a lifetime while raising money for some very worthwhile charities. I'm taking part as part of Team Northsound Cash for Kids, which as the name suggests is raising money for Cash for Kids.

It should be great fun! I'm sure it's gonna be tough some days to find the motivation to get up and out to do my 5k - but - together we're going to keep each other on track!

Why not sign up too? You could even join our team!

You can sponsor me and Team Northsound Cash for Kids by clicking here

I'm going to keep track of my progress throughout the challenge on this blog, on Twitter and on Audioboo.

Bring on the Challenge!

Google+ reached 10m users in 16 days

Every now and again the explore option of my Google Reader throws up an awesome article, in this case I just had to share it. If you didn't already know I'm a bit of a 'statistic junkie'

Enter an article from TNW (The Next Web)

Simply amazing stats on the launch of Google+ though they don't translate directly to my personal experience of the launch. I still don't see too many friends setting up home in the world of +.

You'll find me on Google+ here

Google+ reached 10m users in 16 days. Want to know how long it took Facebook and Twitter?:

Google+ took a mere 16 days to hit 10 million users. By comparison, both Twitter and Facebook took over 2 years to hit that milestone, requiring 780 days and 852 days respectively.

Leon Håland has kindly put together this graph, which helps put Google+’s hockey-stick growth into perspective, compared to its social networking counterparts:




Read the full article over at TNW