High tech analyst In-Stat today revealed some some staggering numbers in their Consumer Media and Content report on the unbridled growth of User Generated Content (UGC). Some highlights:

• The size of downloads/views are estimated to eclipse 1.1 exabytes of data by 2010, with uploads gorwing to more than 9.1 petabytes.
• 23% of the dozens of UGC sites studied currently support mobile access, with others making announcement sfor this support in the near future.
• YouTube holds the highest market share for video, but MySpace has the most visitors.

With the recent explosion of the .mobi domain (which went on sale officially yesterday), we’re bound to see a lot of this content travel to screens of all sizes as mobile devices take on new hats.

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The Infonaut and Game Guy attended the stellar second-year installment of Video Games Live at the Hollywood Bowl tonight. The concept is brilliant in both theory and execution - bring live professional philharmonic orchestration (in this case the house orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl) of video game scores to the stage with mutliple video screens displaying game play. The performance was a perfect object lesson in convergence. Bright lights from cell phone content creators speckled the bowl, in what was a wonderful interplay of digital entertainment and analog music. An early medley took on an ironic feel, beginning appropriately with Pong, and then bouncing to more artful titles as Metal Gear Solid 2, the obscure noir Grim Fandango from Lucas Arts and crowd pleasers (standing ovation) for the Mario franchise, Tetris, and the rousing World of Warcraft. With the new absence of E3, shows like this are going to be a great new forum and revenue stream game publishers. The show’s apex was a mindblowing mashup of Steve Vai, jamming out on his LED-lit guitar with licks from a teaser from Halo 3, one of 07’s most highly anticipated titles.

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A big great digitial hug to all the fellow geeks I met at last night’s BarcampLA. Geek Dinner #5. Without tireless personalities like the gracious heathervescent, I’m not sure how many ideas would actually become actionable products and services. The event, based on the open source conference model introduced to the universe by the brain trust at O’Reilly, these face to face gatherings are a nice reminder that while technology is a velocity driver, nothing can replace human charisma. The Infonaut was impressed by the raw talent of fellow geeks including a large vlogging contingency including emissaries from The Jet Set Show, NoodleScar, and the Bui Brothers.

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Today, the Infonaut is logging in hours at iHollywoodforum’s Mobile Entertainment Summit, where executives dream dreams of convergence and multiplatform content consumption. I’m especially curious if the launch of MySpace mobile aka helio truly means that social media is going mobile, or whether we’ll cling to our laptop screens for our social networking. Whatever you do, though - don’t call them phones.

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