Web content is revolutionizing business. Web content is revolutionizing life. Web content is revolutionizing the World.
Skeptical? Not sold? Need proof? Here are some numbers…
• People click on web links 100-billion times per day
• Five of the top 10 most visited websites are user-generated content
sites that did not exist a couple of years ago
• There are well in excess of 100-million accounts on MySpace – and
growing at a rate of nearly 250,000 per day
• If MySpace were a country, it would be in the top 10 most
populous countries on the planet
• 1 out of 8 couples married last year in the U.S. met online
• The number of text messages sent every day exceeds the
population of the planet
• It is estimated that 1.5 exabytes (1.5 x 1018) of new, unique information will be created this year – more than the previous 5,000 years
There are a couple of truly amazing (and scary) videos that you can watch online that talk to the pace of progress and particularly the impact of the Web from which some of these statistics were culled:
• Shift Happens (http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift)
• Teaching the machine (http://commecon.blogspot.com/2007/02/teaching-machine.html)
Each video runs about 5 minutes and were made in the past few months – both deal with eye-popping and mind-boggling numbers and concepts (and some of the information is already out of date… but you’ll get the point).
Has the Web revolutionized your career? Your life? Tell us why, or why not by posting a comment below. I’ll respond in quick order :)
Comments (2)
The reason I have a career is becasue of the web, so yes I would say it has greatly influenced my professional development.
I was lucky enough to be entering the work force at the height of the dot com craze. I was smart enough not to jump in with some fly by night organization. Instead I joined an established organization that recognized people would have to write differently for the web tahn they did for print mediums.
Not to say there weren't issues with the company, but they positioned me to be extremely marketable in the forthcoming years. Some of my older team members could not get out of verbose print mentality and truly floundered when it came to authoring web content.
When I joined my new company about three years ago. All of my web communications expierience has been leveraged for web 2.0 initiatives.
I love the web, I love blogs, I love MySpace, I have a new found love for Ning and the list keeps growing as technology continues to power Web 2.0 (I hate Facebook, but that's for another blog). It's good I love all of these things, becasue I have another 35 years (at least) in the work force and if I ddin't embrace social media, it would be a very long and unsuccessful career.
Posted by Rob Patey | May 1, 2007 2:06 PM
Posted on May 1, 2007 14:06
Rob, many thanks for sharing your career and successes with us. Your open and candid words are refreshing and I'm appreciative for you sharing them. I think the Web has had a similar impact on many of the readers of this blog, including myself.
Posted by Toby Ward | May 1, 2007 8:57 PM
Posted on May 1, 2007 20:57