WEBPLUNGER

2 billion = number of videos streaming per day on YouTube (via techcrunch)

2 Billion views a day
3rd most visited website (Alexa)
Localized in 23 countries across 24 different languages
15 The average number of minutes people spend on the site each day
24 Hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute
45 Million home page impressions every day
70% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the U.S.
100 Years of video scanned by copyright managent technology, Content ID, every day
1700 Years it would take you to watch the hundreds of millions of videos on YouTube

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The next pandemic: Rating Websites

“….Everything—everyone—will get rated by Web users. You. Me. The dentist. All the hairstylists in town. The sermons in every place of worship. Youth soccer coaches. Lunch meats. Wine. The fact is, on tomorrow’s Internet, everyone will know if you’re a dog.

If my memory serves me correctly, ratings websites (in their more developed form) go all the way back to Myspace & ‘the proliferation of hot or not’ sites (pre-facebook & pre-twitter booms- remember those?)…The advertisers (in their attempts to survive this unprecedented downturn in all things money) have resorted to such fly by night, get rich quick ad generators because this revenue model is bound to fail.

……Zillow just built a way to rate mortgage brokers alongside its information about housing prices, hoping to draw more house shoppers, who are targets for ads from Home Depot and Snapper lawn mowers.”

Not only fail, but sites like these, based solely on generating a particular type of user with very strong views (on the favorable and less favorable side) is going to get ugly.  And apparently it already has.  I’d bet you didn’t know doctors and lawyers are banding together by the thousands to shut down the doctor/lawyer rating sites.  Point for the lawyers who successfully dismantled Avvo (a lawyer rating site) in court… While somewhat amusing E! News is likely to be generated by such sites, there are already too many players in an all too variable pool.  Dotcom bubble III is likely to be filled with hundreds of these (ratings and video sites that is).

Rate on a 1 to 5 scale your agreement or disagreement with the above article: 1 being strongly agree, strongly disagree… just kidding…

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Source Quote: “The Rating Game” by Kevin Maney, The Atlantic.  July/August 2009

Motorola, Inc. (MOT) - Company Profile

RECENT NEWS:
REASON FOR GOOD TECHNOLOGY INC SELL OFF:

• Potential legal expenses from unsettled litigation (with Visto & Good) and need for cash (Updated information on next bullet)
• In an effort to build up cash as cell phone unit sales continue to shrink, Motorola is selling off Good Technology Inc (the mobile email provider they acquired in 2007 for $438 million) to Visto Corp.
  • In doing so - litigation risk mentioned in the first bullet (see above) is eliminated (more specifically - the 2006 litigation that was in question that Visto charged against Good)

RANK: No. 5 maker of cell phones TODAY (down from being Number 2 at height of Razr in 2007)

DIVIDENDS: Consistent dividends in recent years of 5 cents per share, up from 4 cents five years ago.

COMPETITION: Nokia (NOK), Research in Motion (RIMM), Apple Computer

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