With all the hype about the imminent IPO indicating the public will value Facebook at $85 to $95 billion, it’s interesting to consider how much Facebook in turn values the public. Disclosures in the company’s S-1 filing along with data from other public sources reveals a raft of metrics about how many users, pages, “Likes,” apps, messages and other forms of activity Facebook captures about us. Applying emerging techniques that map these information-related volumetrics to Facebook’s actual financials and anticipated market valuation can help quantify the economic value of information. - Jason