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YouTube Statistics are Incredible

The numbers are absolutely incredible! Social Media (Web 2.0) is huge and growing substantially. We have previously noted that WordPress.com gets an incredible 18,000 pageviews a minute. We now get the mindblowing YouTube statistic (YouTube is owned by Google) that ’20 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute’. This means a 33% increase in [...]

Digital Swine Influenza – Distributed via the Internet

Swine influenza is the first pandemic since the widespread sharing of information via the Internet. The last pandemic was the 1969 Hong Kong pandemic at which time the Internet did not exist. The amount of information relating to swine flu which is available on the Internet is huge (but unfortunately not all entirely accurate). WordPress, [...]

vicroBlogging goes Mainstream

YouTube is extremely popular. YouTube (and other streaming video sites such as Flickr, Dailymotion etc.) provides a sharing platform for all sorts of video whether that be video blogging, TV clips, movie previews or any other video. A common criticism of YouTube and other video sharing sites is that the videos can be longer in [...]

Impending doom – Mainstream Media battles to adjust to Social Media

The lyrics ‘impending doom, it must be true’ as sung by The Killers seems to be the general approach taken by mainstream media in response to the explosion of Social Media popularity. Suddenly many media outlets are battling to figure out just where their competitive advantage lies. This morning on television a Sky News reporter [...]