Max Ugaz's List: Digital Economy

• Videos uploaded per day: over 200,000
• Average Video Length: 2 minutes  46.17 seconds
  

  • Este post de Wesch es de agosto del 2008. Según este cálculo, los 200,000 videos diarios con 2.75 minutos promedio c/u significan aproximadamente 10,000 horas de videos al dia que suben a youtube.
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• In a 1996 interview in the WWW Journal, Tim Berners-Lee, chief inventor of the Web technologies, said: "What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and download them fast, when we all have agents - then Web years could slip by before human beings can notice."
• "be able to live for three or four hundred Web years, which will be very exciting."

• We all still use email, of course. But email was better suited to the way we used to use the Internet—logging off and on, checking our messages in bursts. Now, we are always connected, whether we are sitting at a desk or on a mobile phone. The always-on connection, in turn, has created a host of new ways to communicate that are much faster than email, and more fun.
• Little wonder that while email continues to grow, other types of communication services are growing far faster. In August 2009, 276.9 million people used email across the U.S., several European countries, Australia and Brazil, according to Nielsen Co., up 21% from 229.2 million in August 2008. But the number of users on social-networking and other community sites jumped 31% to 301.5 million people.

  • Esta es un estadística importantísima!
• So, how will these new tools change the way we communicate? Let's start with the most obvious: They make our interactions that much faster.
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  ears ago, we were frustrated if it took a few days for a letter to arrive. A couple of years ago, we'd complain about a half-hour delay in getting an email. Today, we gripe about it taking an extra few seconds for a text message to go through. In a few months, we may be complaining that our cellphones aren't automatically able to send messages to friends within a certain distance, letting them know we're nearby. (A number of services already do this.)
• No need to spend time writing a long email to your half-dozen closest friends about how your vacation went. Now those friends, if they're interested, can watch it unfold in real time online.
• David Liu, an executive at AOL, calls it replacing the in-box with "a river that continues to flow as you dip into it."
• And if you know all these people are reading your updates, you might say a lot less than you would otherwise.
• Another obvious downside to the constant stream: It's a constant stream.
• That can make it harder to determine the importance of various messages.
• Without software to help filter and organize based on factors we deem relevant, we'd drown in the deluge

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