The people from Facebook we saw on Monday are probably celebrating and spending some of the money they have made. I’ll be getting up early and trying to find some time to go running before work.

The Indonesian president, who we saw on Wednesday, is no doubt enjoying a sense of security now that he knows he has another five years in his position. The terrible driver we met yesterday is most likely at home wondering when he will ever be allowed in a car again!

Before the weekend starts, there’s just one more task to complete. That’s right! It’s time to test your word-power with the seventh Wil’s World of Words Friday Fun Quiz.

Good luck and have a great weekend!

Today’s image is by Ivan Petrov.

This article on the Reuters website caught my eye over the weekend. It seems that Facebook has started earning money now and is keen to become as rich and powerful as Google.

There’s a lot of interesting business vocabulary in the article, too. The first interesting expression is in the second paragraph where it is mentioned that Facebook had turned ‘cash positive‘. This is an expression meaning that there is more money coming into the company than there is going out.

There is some great expressions in this paragraph slightly later in the article:

Sandberg, who has long fought the perception Facebook lacked a revenue model, laid out a gameplan to turn the company into a cash machine by describing how the company aimed to bring in revenues from novel ads aimed at its 300 million users.

To ‘lay out a gameplan‘ means to present a plan of action. In this case, the plan is related to how to alter the company so that it becomes a ‘cash machine‘ and starts making a lot of money.

There’s another interesting word later on when Sheryl Sandberg is quoted describing advertising as like a ‘funnel‘. A funnel is a shape which is wide at one end and narrow at the other, as in the picture below.

The last expression I would like to look at is in the last paragraph where it is mentioned that Starbucks ‘won kudos‘ from Facebook members. ‘Won kudos’ means that it gained their respect or they gave it credit.

I think Facebook are going to need to do all they can to go to stay ahead of newer rivals like Twitter and even some more specialist social-networking sites related to hobbies or education.

What’s your favourite social-networking website?

Today’s photos are by Ivan Prole and Antonio Jiménez Alonso.