Amelia Posted January 9, 2006 Posted January 9, 2006 Terrifying Internet Facts Rich Karlgaard Sunday, January 08, 2006 Impact Lab Terrifying, that is, if you happen to run an older business stuck in the path of the Internet juggernaut. Got these facts last week from Stratton Sclavos, the chairman and CEO of VeriSign. Global web interactions per day as measured by VeriSign: • 2000 . . . 1 billion per day • 2005 . . . 15 billion per day Number of blogs worldwide in 2005: • 22 million Number of blogs worldwide in 2010: • Approaching 1 billion, spurred by Flickr and other new blog uses. Registered Skype users worldwide just before eBay’s purchase of Skype: • 60 million Price-per-unit that RFID chips need to reach in order to ignite massive deployment of RFID chips: • $.05 (the “magic nickel” according to Sclavos) U.S. household use of Tivo and Tivo-like devices in 2005: • 3% Projected U.S. household use of Tivo and Tivo-like devices in 2010: • 70% Percent of TV ads skipped by users of Tivo and Tivo-like devices: • 79% Quote <p><span style="color:#0000FF;"><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">"Do not use harmful words, but only helpful words, the kind that build up and provide what is needed, so that what you say will do good to those who hear you."</span></span> Eph 4:29</span><br><br><img src="http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/gizmotimetemp_both/US/OR/Fairview.gif" alt="Fairview.gif"> Fairview Or</p>
CyberGuy Posted January 9, 2006 Posted January 9, 2006 I had one of those tivo like divices installed by my cable company. Really cool. Records the TV program on a hard drive and you can watch it later and skip all the ads. Only 3 precent in 2005 have it you say. I guess I am on the ground floor in this technology. COOL Quote Riverside CA
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