I saw this on LinkedIn and through it was fascinating:
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Podcasting news offers us an article with some amazing statistics about Internet usage: The Internet is the medium on which online users spend the most time (32.7 hours/week). This is equivalent to almost half of the total time spent each week using all media (70.6 hours). People spend twice as much time on the Internet as they spend watching television (16.4 hours). People spend eight times as much time on the Internet as they spentd (sic) reading newspapers and magazines (3.9 hours). Clearly there is convergence occurring between television and the Internet to the point where they will be fully integrated. Still, I’m surprised that today there is a 2… Read More
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Here is an interesting prediction for 2008 from The Economist (my editing): PEERING into Tech.view’s crystal ball, the one thing we can predict with at least some certainty is that 2008 will be the year we stop taking access to the internet for granted. The internet is not about to grind to a halt, but as more and more users clamber aboard to download music, video clips and games while communicating incessantly by e-mail, chat and instant messaging, the information superhighway sometimes crawls with bumper-to-bumper traffic. The biggest road-hog remains spam (unsolicited e-mail), which accounts for 90% of traffic on the internet. Phone companies and other large ISPs (internet service… Read More
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