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What Happens in an Internet Minute? Cool Infographic
Do you know what happens in one minute on the Internet? In just one minute, more than 204 million emails are sent. Amazon rings up about $83,000 in sales. Around 20 million photos are viewed and 3,000 uploaded on Flickr. At least 6 million Facebook pages are viewed around the world. And more than 61,000 hours of music are played on Pandora while more than 1.3 million video clips are watched on YouTube.
Computing is transforming and touching more people in a wider range of devices. From smartphones to tablets, netbooks and notebooks and even automotive; it can often seem like every one of us is connected. But while it’s hard to miss the proliferation of portable devices, it’s what we don’t see that’s the bigger issue.
What many don’t see is that the increase in mobile devices has had a tremendous impact on the amount of data traffic crossing the network. It’s a little easier to comprehend once we think about all that’s done on a connected device like a smartphone. Listening to music, watching videos, downloading photos, playing online games, refreshing Twitter feeds and status updates – all of those activities generate network traffic. Following is an infographic illustrates just how much data passes through the network in 60 seconds. Nearly 640K Gb of global IP data is transferred in just one Internet minute!
Today, the number of networked devices equals the world’s population. By 2015, the number of networked devices is expected to be double the world’s population. And by the time we reach 2015, it would take five years to view all the video content crossing IP networks each second.
So can our existing networks handle this explosion in network traffic and maintain consumer expectations for immediate access from multiple devices? And if the networks can expand to accommodate this growth, can they do it while maintaining security? Telco equipment manufacturers and service providers will be on the hook to ensure that we continue to enjoy access to information and entertainment on our mobile without any interruption to service.
Intel is working with equipment managers and service providers to help them do just that. Just recently, Intel announced its next-generation communications platform, codenamed “Crystal Forest,” that will boost performance and beef up network security to handle the increasing network traffic. By enabling equipment manufacturers and services providers to deliver platforms that grow along with the network, Intel is also enabling consumers to stay connected on intelligent devices every Internet minute of the day.
Nice infographic from Intel
Google Rant
Ok my wife is out at a work dinner; the kids are tucked up in bed…I’m going to take a deep breath and a long run up for this one…
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If you have been watching my tweets recently you will have seen my growing frustration with Google.
I have two Google accounts. One for me, one for HashBang.TV (note – check that out, it’s awesome. Honest!)
Have you tried managing Google Apps with multiple identities?
It totally sucks ass. How Google think they stand a chance in social networking and cloud-based apps if they can't even get the basics right is beyond me.
Strike #1 - Simultaneous account sign in
Gmail and Google calendar actually handle this ok, switching is seamless, but bring Google Doc’s to the party and it’s good night Vienna. You cannot switch between accounts. You have to sign out of all your Google identities and start over with the one you want to use at that point in time to access Google Doc’s.
If you multi task (heaven forbid) then you stand no chance – you always need access to the Google Doc’s account that you just signed out of. I spend minutes per day just logging in and out of Google Apps, what a great user experience – The Google App Toolbar sits there mocking me.
But this is just the start of my Google induced rage.
Strike #2 Google +
Get over it – only employees, people paid by Google, or people with no quality control are using it. It's a ghost ship sailing towards the Bermuda Triangle. Don’t take my word for it – check the list of the most popular people on Google+ and see who is actually active.
Check the Top 100 Google + accounts list here. Page 1 shows the top 25 accounts and an amazing THREE accounts out of the top 25 have circled more people than me, and I don’t use it, and I don’t have a PR firm doing it for me like Britney Spears, and this is the most and’s in a sentence ever…
Oh and how they are trying to pretend something interesting is happening there. Oh and how they ram it down your throat at every opportunity….
When Chris and I launched HashBang we needed a separate identity from our personal Google accounts for things like Google Analytics, AdSense, YouTube, Blogger etc. – having set all those up, Google virtually begged me setup a Google + account for the same HashBang Google account.
Three months pass, then I get the “sorry you are not using a real name email” – well stop pushing Google + accounts on people / companies and encouraging them to breach your own policies.
HashBang.TV Google+ account deleted.
End of… or so I thought.
Two minutes after deleting it and then signing back into the HashBang Google account – “Would you like to claim your Google + account – its awesome” (or words to that effect) – REALLY???
Strike 3 – Cookie Monster
Over the last 48 hours I discover I can now no longer access the Blogger account I stupidly picked to host the HashBang blog. I’m stuck in redirect hell.
I’ve deleted all one hundred and one cookies so graciously left in my machine by Google alone. I’ve used different browsers, I’ve used different machines. I’ve even tried with different operating systems. (ooh I broke my “and’s” record with “I’ve’s” in a sentence)
Well and truly shafted… Great way to try and start a business, when you can’t even update your own blog.
Seriously Google sort your shit out!
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…and relax
Foursquare Badge List
After my recent FourSquare badge frenzy at South By South West, check this site out for all the current active badges and unlocks.
Bad news for Turntable.FM as Facebook launch collaborative music listening
Long time readers will remember that I raved about Turntable.FM last summer. It truly changed my music consumption habits within a week.
Of course the music industry quickly identified it as a threat, rather than a solution to solve their fucked business model, and forced Turntable.FM to block all traffic from the US. As I wrote at the time, these actions are pointless as it is easy to spoof a US IP address. Still the hassle eroded the group I was regularly DJ'ing with and my usage dropped off to near zero.
What a huge missed opportunity.
I've been keeping tabs on Turntable.FM's attempts to secure the licensing they need to re-open to non US customers, but so far silence.
Then the news I'm sure they were dreading. Facebook announced on Thursday that they were launching "Listen with" which basically does exactly what Turntable.FM does, except of course you are locked into the Facebook platform.
The blog post says it is rolling out now, and I assume that Facebook have enough lawyers, muscle and money to make the music labels play nice. Its amusing reading the comments on the blog post praising Facebook for coming up with such a cool idea.
Whilst writing this post I checked in on Turntable.FM for any news and the site was down. I'm not sure if that was scheduled maintenance, or coincidence, but their Twitter account hasn't posted for 48 hours either. There is no mention of the Facebook announcement in their stream.
I can hear the biting of lips in New York from here.
Rapportive: Bringing your social graph directly into to your inbox
My latest piece for ITProPortal is now live.
Its my take on Rapportive, a social plug in for GMail.
Read more here.
