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Saturday, May 21, 2011

Statistics on the Amazing Volume of Online Activity

Facebook: Users submit 650,000 comments every minute

YouTube: 35 hours of video are uploaded every minute

eBay: $2,000 of transactions every second

Google: 34,000 searches per second

Twitter: 1,600 Tweets per second

Apple: 3 billion apps downloaded from users in 77 countries.

Future: By 2024 the world’s enterprise servers will annually process the digital equivalent of a stack of books extending more than 4.37 light-years to Alpha Centauri, our closest neighboring star system in the Milky Way Galaxy.

~Technology Liberation Front blog
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7 comments:

  1. juandos5/21/2011 8:52 AM

    Maybe its time to take a look at the possibility of investing in ARM or Calxeda...

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  2. Benjamin Cole5/21/2011 1:58 PM

    All fine, except that Proxima Centauri is the closest star to our own Sun.

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  3. Mark J. Perry5/21/2011 4:31 PM

    Alpha Centauri is the closest star SYSTEM, Proxima Centuari is the closest STAR, and is part of Alpha Centauri.

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  4. Benjamin Cole5/21/2011 6:32 PM

    Maybe I should stick to woodworking...

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  5. Hydra5/22/2011 7:25 PM

    Benjamin

    Sawed some nice cherry and walnut today. Interested?

    5/4 cherry 10 inch wide by 15.

    5/4 walnut 8 in wide by six ft. Larger cuts to follow. Free startracker app.

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  6. Hydra5/22/2011 7:27 PM

    Information isn't the same as knowledge.

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  7. Benjamin Cole5/22/2011 8:16 PM

    Hydra-

    Sounds like great stuff. Shipping to Los Angeles?

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