We’re Talking Petabytes!
September 27th, 2006
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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Staggering is a great term for it. Personally, I don’t think the .mobi domain is going to change the world. In an ideal world, a person could type in a business’ primary domain and be redirected or simply see content presented with a more friendly stylesheet based on the detected browser resolution. That way I don’t have to guess whether a site has a .mobi version or not.
However, something needs to be improved over the current random locations of mobile versions. Sometimes it’s at a subdomain, other times at a different extension or entirely different domain.
Comment by Ed Kohler — September 29, 2006 @ 3:12 pm