Social technologies are not a fad
October 16th, 2008
Just in case you were wondering, here’s some pretty compelling evidence that social technologies are not a fad.
From The Daily Stat by Harvard Business Publishing (October 9, 2008)
Social Networking Goes Mainstream
25% of Internet users in the U.S. spend time on social networking sites, according to the Conference Board’s Consumer Internet Barometer, and about half of them visit these sites multiple times per day. Employers can relax — for now: “Home” is the most common place where networkers log on (more than 75%).
From The WOMMA Word daily newsletter (October 15, 2008)
Facebook Now Has Over One Petabyte of Photo Storage
Okay then, what is a petabyte, you ask? It’s simple, really. A petabyte is 2^50 bytes, or 1024^5 bytes, or about 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. For some context, consider that one photograph on Facebook takes up about 50,000 bytes. Why does Facebook require such a massive amount of storage? Simply, because it’s single-handedly eclipsing all other photo sharing websites with over 10 billion photos, and counting.
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The AST Executive Summary
The executive summary of the groundbreaking Association Social Technologies survey project is now available for download! The full report will be available in October.
