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"Frankly I don’t know enough about Facebook to make a decision just yet. I just find it crazy and the pace is so fast that very little of substance is being done." — and Jason is totally on the mark, I don’t *do* facebook, either.
It’s been a little sobering looking at Internet usage, over the last 3 years, via my current Broadband ISP. I currently have an ADSL2+ connection, that hums along with an (on average) connection speed of 13mbits/sec (downstream) and 2.4mbits/sec (upstream).
That translates to real world download speeds of 1.3mbytes per second and some 240kbytes per sec going the other way.
As can be seen by the usage snapshot1 in the last 3 years, my consumption of ‘ether’ has increased from below 20gbytes per month, spiking over 80gb and clocks in at around 60gb on average. That’s a three fold increase in as many years!
With the absolute plethora of technologies online, such as twitter2, pownce3, youtube, nasa tv and so on (not to mention a little p2p action care of joost) has lead to a bit of a bender in usage.
The reality is, that shows no sign of diminishing and it’s an increasingly expensive exercise as those outside of the good old US of A have to pay to get your data, here. And the cost for my addiction? Currently sitting at $139 per month.
Have you looked at your usage pattern lately?
"Pownce is a way to send stuff to your friends. What kind of stuff? You can send just about anything: music, photos, messages, links, events, and more." — pownce is kinda cool.. and I have a few invites to give away - leave a comment to score one. ;)
Do you ‘bog’ rather than blog?
That may seem like an odd question, but it’s none-the-less highly relevant in today’s ‘instant’ world where the speed in which we require input has increased, inversely proportional to the patience required to wait.
Over the last few weeks I have taken a keen interest in where people are going when […]
"Get the latest news, weather, blogs, and more delivered free to your instant messenger." — Hear Ye, Hear Ye, get your daily updates or RSS fix by instant message! Town crier meets IM, could be great option for the mobile user.
"Shortly after joining the social networking site Facebook, I received an e-mail telling me a friend had ‘written on my wall’. Within two clicks I was logged-in and had full access to her account." — Facebook accounts at risk via email?
A pretty fly web 2.0 way to present your favicon.ico — the default logo presented in your web browser of choice, next to any one URI. Discovered via a
my.9rules Notes
post.
Not entirely convinced the purpose is at all earth-shattering or life changing.. but it is an undeniably cool applet.
A nifty little site to give a blog "9 minutes of fame" — every 9 minutes a new URI can be submitted for the edification of others. #
