The future of social networking is an open standards based decentralized networks in the People Agrregator mould, with something like OpenID being the single point of entry. Dave Winer says a centralized system like Facebook or Linked-In will result in explosive unbundling of (decentralized) services.

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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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