The document discusses various statistics related to social media and online technologies: 68% of Gen-Y respondents visit social networking sites daily; 65% of media and communications marketers use or plan to use RSS; World of Warcraft grew from 1.5 million users in 2005 to 9 million users in 2008 requiring a 2GB patch; the number of podcast downloads by web users increased from 7% in April 2006 to 19% in August 2008. Over 1,200 terabytes of torrent data were being shared on the internet as of December 2008 according to a BitTorrent search engine.

2. Link to video: http://tinyurl.com/555hf8

3. (2007 American Community Survey 1-Year
Estimates. U.S. Census Bureau; link)

6. “68% of Gen-Y
respondents visit
social networking
sites at least once
a day”
(Gen-Y Social Application Demand Continues.
BNET.com; link)

10. “RSS is currently
used, or planned
for use by 65% of
media &
communications
marketersquot;
(RSS Statistics. RSSDiary.marketingstudies.net; link)

12. Google Chat

14. World of Warcraft
(worldwide numbers)
2005 - 1.5 Million users
2008 - 9 Million users
Latest patch = 2GB
(World of Warcraft hits 9 Million worldwide.
VideoGamesBlogger.com; link)

17. Intermission / Shameless Self Promotion
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18. Wikipedia
Since 2001 - 6.40 million
articles in 260
languages generated
from 236 million edits
by 5.77 million
contributors
(Wikipedia:About. Wikipedia; link)

24. Downloaded at least one Podcast
April 2006 – 7% of Web Users
Aug. 2006 – 12% of Web Users
--
Aug. 2008 – 19% of Web Users
(Podcast Downloading. Pew Internet & American Life Project; link)

31. According to ISOhunt.com,
(a BitTorrent search engine)
as of December 3, 2008,
1,204 Terabytes of torrent
data humming through
Internet.

32. Not P2P, but
helps users
find available
P2P files

33. Yep, video too

35. Flash Player 10
P2P built in.

36. “Broadcatch”
= RSS + P2P
=P2P Auto-
Download

38. Adam J. Winn
ajwinn@gmail.com
www.linkedin.com/in/ajwinn
www.slideshare.net/ajwinn
(note: slideshare.NET/ajwinn)