Intel reviled what happens in an Internet Minute

What happens in an Internet minute? Today, the number of networked devices is equal to the global population. By 2015, the number of networked devices will be twice the global population.

              Everything moves fast on the Internet, but just how fast are we talking about here? How much data gets shared across the Internet? How much data transferrers through Internet, While you start reading this article and thinking how the data is transfered in the span of time, Petabytes of data transfers through Internet this is how huge and faster Internet is, we are talking about emails, status posts, tweets and retweets,the downloading of apps and uploading of vacation pictures, streaming of online videos and music, online transactions and many more the list goes on.

Intel's internet minute infographic reveals exactly what we do online - with 639,800GB of data transferred

              What about the other side of the data transferrers i.e, servers, hosting, data storage, social networking and all other stuff.

             So what happens in an Internet minute? Well, folks at Intel did some number crunching and came up with a figure that describes what happens in sixty seconds on the Internet — 639,800 GB of global IP data gets transferred, that’s what. Above is an infographic to show you a breakdown of what contributes to more than half a million gigabytes of information being transferred all across the world every minute through the power of communication technology.

           This new study, by chipmaker Intel, found that more than 204 million mails are sent every minute, while 47,000 apps are downloaded and retail giant Amazon rings up around £55,000 ($83,000) are in sales. Around 20 million photos and
6 million Facebook pages are viewed, 1.3 million video clips on YouTube are watched.

Nearly 64,000 GB of global ip data is transferred in just one Internet minute.

             'Computing is transforming and touching more people in a wider range of devices,' said Intel's Krystal Temple. But while it's hard to miss the proliferation of portable devices, it's what we don't see that's the bigger issue.

              What many people don't see is that the increase in mobile devices has a tremendous impact on the amount of data traffic crossing the network. It's a little easy to understand once we think about all that's done on a connected device like a smartphone's .

 Google’s data center in Douglas County, Georgia, just outside of Atlanta.

               Listening to music, watching videos, downloading and uploading photos, playing online games, refreshing and retweet twitter feeds and status updates - all of those activities generate network traffic. The study by Intel also looked at how the data could expand dramatically in the future, It predicted that by 2015, the number of networked devices is expected to be double the world's population and it would take five years to view all the video content crossing IP networks each second by then. 

              The Intel also reveled it is developing new networking equipment to deal with the increase in traffic, codenamed 'Crystal Forest,' that will boost performance and specially designed chipset for network infrastructure.

 

 Intel's new Crystal Forest chipset includes an undisclosed embedded CPU, an 89XX-series chipset and their Data Plane Development Kit which is the SDK they've created for designing fast path network processing.
 
This is not a competitor to AMD's Freedom Fabric which is designed for communication within a large series of processing nodes, instead you will see Crystal Forest powering high end routers and web appliances.

Intel has designed this new chipset to increase the performance of cryptography and compression on network packets and claims it will increase speed as well as security, along with the benefits of support coming directly from Intel.

Google has started a Revolution - Googlisation ??

 Google  the one of the best search engine in world proved its excellence in the internet world more over Google is getting into the broadband business. The company plans to deploy its own “experimental” fiber-optic network to at least 50,000 homes, perhaps as many as 500,000. The fiber-optic network will deliver speeds of 1 gigabit-per-second, which is more than 20 times faster than residential fiber optic services offered today in the U.S. 

The Google has started ruling the internet world with the new features upgrade of internet may bring a tremendous change in the internet world. 

Google originally stated that they would announce the winner or winners by the end of 2010; however, in mid-December, Google pushed back the announcement date of the selected Google Fiber community (or communities) to "early 2011" due to an increase in the time necessary to review all of the over 1,100 applications.

A different kind of Internet.

Google Fiber starts with a connection speed 100 times faster than today's average broadband. Instant downloads.
Crystal clear HD. And endless possibilities. It's not just TV. And it's not just Internet. It's Google Fiber.



At 1000 Mb per second, Google Fiber is 100 times faster than today’s average Internet, allowing you to get what you want instantaneously. You no longer have to wait on things buffering; everything will be ready to go when you are. So whether you are video chatting, uploading family videos, or playing your favorite online games, all you need to do is click and you’re there.

Google Fiber is a project to build an experimental broadband internet network infrastructure using fiber-optic communication in Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, following a selection process.Over 1,100 communities applied to be the first recipient of the technology.

On April Fools' Day 2012, Google Fiber announced that their product is an edible Google Fiber bar instead of fiber-optic internet broadband. It is stated that the Google Fiber bar delivers "what the body needs to sustain activity, energy and productivity."

On July 26, 2012, Google announced that it would roll out a companion fiber optic television service in the Kansas City area that September called Google Fiber TV, which will be offered as a conventional pay television service and will also stream live program content on iPad and Android tablet computers. Neighborhoods that initially receive both the TV and internet services are to be selected through demand from Kansas City area residents. The initial channel lineup for the service does not currently include cable television networks owned by Time Warner, The Walt Disney Company, AMC Networks, and News Corporation, which may eventually be added pending carriage agreements with those companies.

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LinkedIn and Twitter Breakup

So much for efficiency with LinkedIn and Twitter!

Since 2009, LinkedIn and Twitter have shared the conversation on both platforms. Last week, Twitter announced that tweets will no longer be able to be viewed within LinkedIn. This is good news and bad news. the good news is that some people post the same types of data on LinkedIn and Twitter so you will see a decrease in volume in LinkedIn activity. The bad news is that you now must look in two places for your LinkedIn and Twitter posts

Now, you can post on LinkedIn and if you check the box at the bottom of the ‘Share and update’ box, you can still push that same post into Twitter. However, if you Tweet on Twitter, the post will NOT show up on LinkedIn.

What is the reason for this change? According to Michael Sippey a Group Product Manager at Twitter,  Twitter is focusing on “providing the core Twitter consumption experience through a consistent set of products and tools.”

Great for Twitter but that makes more work for the rest of us. So, what are your options for more efficient solutions?

Efficient Solutions

For Reading – Use A Thrid Party Platfom

I personally use HootSuite and really like it. You have tabs in HootSuite and each tab can have its own feed which means. HootSuite has several social networks to choose from in addition to Twitter, FaceBook, and LinkedIn. A feed could be from LinkedIn, a LinkedIn Group, Twitter or more. I have one tab for LinkedIn, one tab for Twitter and one for both.

For Posting – Use A Third Party Platform or LinkedIn

Again,I like HootSuite to post with because it can shorten my links, give me reports, post to multiple platforms all at once and lets me schedule posts.

If you don’t use a third party platform to post, do your posts on LinkedIn and checkmark the box to also send the post as a tweet.

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Zuckerberg no longer in world's richest 40 Peosons :

The month of July 2012 is not a good/beneficial month for Facebook community, The stock of Facebook has fallen 7 percent, The looser is obviously Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The total sum of money loss from this damage may attach with CEO name's in the list of 40 richest billionaire's, Its Doesn't mean that Zuckerberg is not in the list of billionaire's but if this weakness continues, then we have not idea about it's Future,

Zuckerberg don't care too much about all these things because he have seen to much difficulties in his life and have got there solutions as well,There was a time the young man wanted to sell Facebook to make a quick buck.

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Zuckerberg has started Facebook  just to make a easy,advance connection/connectivity among people around the globe.

Zuckerberg wants to connect every one on the planet, His next mission is to break one billion user milestone for social network.

To keep Facebook growing and relevant zuckerberg needs to focus on facebook mobile app, now a days majority of peoples use facebook on mobile, Zuckerberg and other facebook co-founders are trying to make facebook mobile more fast, advanced, reliable and affordable

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Social not-working ?

You keep your Facebook profile picture updated, make sure your relationship status is up-to-date and respond to every comment on your wall and message in your inbox. And the social networking giant is constantly devising new apps and designs to reel you in tighter. If you met someone who didn’t 'facebook', you’d probably peg him or her as boring or technophobic. However, some young folks have plugged the spillage of virtual life into real life and stayed away from these networks, without compromising their social life.



The rebels

Nikhil Kini, a 24-year-old computer engineer, has never been on Facebook, despite being a tech freak. “I’ve never even been tempted. There is nothing out there in the online social world that there isn’t in the real one,” he says. Keeping in touch with friends is done simply — he uses Skype and chat applications. “It’s really sad that some people’s idea of staying in touch is ‘liking’ a picture on FB or commenting on it,” he says.

Twenty-four-year-old doctor Sneha Mashru, who, like Kini, never opened a Facebook account, feels that an addiction to online networks leads to constant guilt trips too. “I see my colleagues hunched over their laptops in the little free time we get from our gruelling 36-hour shifts in the hospital and then complain that they wasted it doing nothing on Facebook,” she says. She prefers to meet friends in person or talk to them on the phone than post messages on FB. “If you feel that a relationship is important then it’s worth making an added effort to keep in touch with them,” she opines. Adds Kini, “A lot of people feel guilty about their excessive FB use but are unable to do anything about the addiction.”

Facebook — a bubble?

Clinical psychologist and life coach Aditi Samant feels that social networking sites become a sort of safe haven for some people. “It’s definitely easier for people to make friends online, especially for those who are shy. Also, everyone feels like a mini-celebrity on FB,” she says. “People may experience withdrawal symptoms or anxiety when they’re kept away from such websites.”

Though Facebook is becoming one of the most effective marketing tools for promoting businesses, especially among the youth, some people don’t mind defying the norm.

“It would definitely help me in promoting my business,” says Stephenie Pereira, 24, who owns a bakery in Vakola and happily chose a FB-free world after being on it for the past six years. “But I have just started four months ago and right now, my main concern is surviving in a competitive market. I would rather concentrate on the core of my business — my food — than spend time stressing about the frills.” Stephenie joined Facebook to meet new people, get in touch with long lost friends and build a network but it started getting monotonous for her. “I was bored of doing the same things on Facebook, that’s why I deleted my account.”

Logging out

* Reduce your time on FB gradually; start with cutting 10 minutes every day

* Make plans with friends to meet in person

* Take up a hobby

* Participate in an offline activity like reading or sports

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Twitter Knows When You Sleep, and More

Twitter knows when you nap. At least its engineers think they have a pretty good idea when you nap, because those are the few times when you’re not pouring your heart out in 140-character bursts.

Peering into its fire hose of tweets from four big cities around the world, a pair of Twitter engineers, Miguel Rios and Jimmy Lin, have discovered that the Twitter users in Istanbul don’t sleep much in August — and why would they, considering how many people are strolling along Istiklal Avenue on summer evenings. The denizens of Sao Paulo, Brazil, seem to take an afternoon siesta – tweets sharply drop off in the period after lunch.

New Yorkers tend to be as voluble on Twitter during the workday as they are during evenings. But that is not the case for the other three cities. The Japanese in Tokyo appear to be most disciplined about actually working during work hours – they tweet very little, relatively speaking, between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Their sleeping hours also appear relatively unchanged over winter and summer.

All this intelligence is potentially lucrative for a global communications business like Twitter. It can inform when to serve up advertisements on the site and potentially for what kinds of products. It also produces very cool graphs and charts.

The data at the disposal of social media companies are, in principle, valuable to other organizations, from soda pop companies to politicians to police agencies that seek to understand human behavior. Location is one of the most useful pieces of information, especially for marketers that want to target their advertising dollars most efficiently.

Facebook this week released a map that political advertisers would find useful in an election year. It matched its users political affiliations with where their physical locations. The map went far beyond the red state versus blue state divide, with far more fine grained information about where Facebook users checked in in various parts of the country.

California, predictably, had large swathes of Democratic blue, but with plenty of Republican red polka dots in in the Orange County and San Diego suburbs.

Mark Zuckerberg on Why Facebook Will Never Build a Phone

We can put the Facebook phone rumors to rest; Facebook’s CEO has explained exactly why the company will never build its own mobile hardware.

I had the chance to question Mark Zuckerberg, head of mobile products Erick Tseng and senior director of local sales and marketing Emily White during an intimate round table discussion following today's Facebook mobile event. We covered a lot of ground during our half-hour interview (I’ll have more posts on monetization, Facebook as a platform and the impact of Places on small businesses soon), but our discussion of the “Facebook Phone” near the end definitely caught my interest.
“First of all, we’re not a hardware company,” Zuckerberg responded unequivocally to a question from Reuters‘s Alexei Oreskovic. “Second of all, our goal is not to sell anything physical; our goal is to make it so that everything can be social.”



Zuckerberg’s response isn’t a surprise; Facebook has said from the beginning that it is not building a phone. What is interesting, though, is that Zuckerberg explained his rationale for why building a phone would be a bad idea for the company he built.“It would be pretty silly for us to go after a strategy that focused on selling a small number of phones,” Zuckerberg said.

His explanation was twofold. First, if the company built a phone, it would only control a small percentage of the market. Even if it sold 10 million or 20 million phones, that’s still a really small chunk of the mobile pie. Second, such a strategy risks alienating the partners Facebook needs to make mobile more social.
So Facebook is not building a phone. What is it doing?
“We’re constantly working on deeper and deeper integration's,” Zuckerberg said.
He cited single sign-on as an example of bringing deeper Facebook integration to Androids and  iPhone. Zuckerberg also pointed out the Facebook integration on Windows Phone 7 as an example of a deeper integration that was not built by the company, but by a third party (in this case, Microsoft). Some users have even mistaken it as a “Facebook Phone” because of the depth of its Facebook integration.
In the end though, Zuckerberg wanted to make one thing clear to us. “We don’t sell hardware,” he stated. “That’s just not what we do. And it’s really damaging for us if that rumor is out, because then the people we actually partner with think we’re actually competitors.”

Mark Zuckerberg Worth $21 Billion on Facebook IPO Debut

In less than an hour, Mark Zuckerberg has jumped from number 29 to number 24 — and then back to 29 — on the list of wealthiest people in the world.

Facebook set an opening share price of $38 on Thursday evening, which valued Zuckerberg’s 503.6 million shares and options at about $19.1 billion. Trading opened on Friday at about $42.

That price would make Zuckerberg’s portion of the company worth $21.2 billion.

The 28-year-old CEO would be not only more wealthy than Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, but also creeping into the territory of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who holds the number 23 spot.

Shares dipped back to $38 almost immediately after the stock opened and will likely fluctuate — along with Zuckerberg’s net worth — throughout the day. The Wall Street Journal has set up a real-time “Wealth-o-Meter” for those interested in following along.

Zuckerberg had planned to sell 30.2 million of his shares in the IPO, which would net him $1.3 billion at Friday’s opening trading price. According to Facebook’s filing with the SEC, he will use most of the proceeds to pay taxesassociated with exercising 60 million stock options.

After much anticipation, Facebook filed its paperwork for an initial public offering Feb. 1, 2012, the same week the world's largest social network celebrated its eighth birthday. The company will begin trading late May 2012. 

Facebook's S-1 revealed it is looking to raise $5 billion, and it has a valuation estimated at $100 billion. That would make the social network about four times the value of Google at the time it went public in 2004 with a valuation at $23 billion the day after. 

The Facebook IPO filing revealed some details that had previously been private about the company. Facebook — which earned $1 billion on sales of $3.7 billion in 2011 — now has 845 million active users on the site, up from the estimated 800 million using the site back in September. It also revealed salaries of execs, including founder Mark Zuckerberg's $500,000 salary, COO Sheryl Sandberg's $300,000 and CFO David Ebersman $300,000. 

To get caught up on the biggest news related to Facebook's IPO, watch the video (right), and check out the stories below.

MICROSOFT RELEASES THEIR OWN SOCIAL NETWORK SOCL FOR PUBLIC

In a world where social structure plays a major role more and more companies are trying to pump into the competitive world of social networking to grab a piece of the action after seeing how Facebook rose from a room in Harvard to a full blown 100 Billion Dollar IPO. Last year we saw the attempt of Google doing it with their Google+Social network and this year Microsoft takes the leap of faith with their brand new website called so.cl.

The name might sound a bit odd at first but Microsoft believes that the social network will specifically cater in connecting students from across the globe. We all know that Facebook’s initial objective back in 2004 was to connect all guys studying at Harvard University. So the question is with Facebook domination this segment of the industry do we see a place for so.cl? In 2011 we all saw how Google+ was all hyped up and compared to Facebook. Many critics thought that Facebook’s domination will finally be over with Google jumping into the niche but after a few months things looked rather flat for Google and we saw Facebook crossing the 900 million user mark.

The reason why so.cl might attract certain audience is the fact that it integrates searching the web and social networking into a seamless environment. In fact when you join so.cl the first page that you are going to land looks a lot like a windows phone layout with various tabs covering different topics which you can browse further.

Microsoft has been respectful to Facebook by offering a Login with Facebook button on their social networking platform as well.  This gesture passively displays yet another confirmation of Social Media domination from the industry giant Facebook.Most of the features of so.cl are pretty similar to other social networks. The peer to peer connection happens with the help of a follow button similar to that of Twitter. You have your own personalized feed, profile pages, and you can browse through various topics using the explore button.

A significant new addition to this new network is a feature called Video Party. The dedicated button to start a video party can be found on the top right hand sidebar. Video Party allows you to stack up multiple videos and watch them together while you guys can still enjoy commenting and sharing your views. It’s like watching a concert or a sports match together virtually with your friends.

So.cl is still pre-mature and I am sure that Microsoft will be improving and adding lots of features to this website. I am keen on seeing how users respond to yet another Social Network and how it will integrate with later version of Windows Mobile.

Facebook Makes Privacy Difficult

In a story which will surprise no one who’s been using Facebook for any length of time, Consumer Reports is saying the social media giant isn’t making their privacy policies clear enough for their 150 million users. As more people hand over more information to Facebook, Consumer Reports is saying users should be careful about what they are sharing.

Of the 150 million Facebookers, 13 million haven’t set any kind of online privacy controls. According to Consumer Reports, this is a sign that many users don’t understand the privacy policies or cannot locate them on Facebook, a complaint which has been made numerous times before. In their June issue of Consumer Reports magazine, they call out Facebook, saying they have “labyrinthian policies and controls.”

Jeff Fox, technology editor for Consumer Reports, told Bloomberg much of the problem could be the classic communication gap between the tech-savvy and tech-challenged. “A lot of things about the service are not very transparent to non-technical people,” said Fox.

“Facebook is the custodian of all this information — they have a social responsibility to people who use this service.”

Even those users who are aware of Facebook’s privacy settings and put them to use may not fully understand what information Facebook is collecting and selling to their advertisers. For instance, Facebook tracks visits to websites which feature their iconic “like” symbol, according to Consumer Reports.

As Facebook grows outside its desktop birthplace into the wide open world of mobile devices, users are beginning to share more and more intimate information about themselves. Consumer Reports estimates 39 million American users have told Facebook who their family members are and 4.8 million have told the site where they plan on being that day.

Without appropriate privacy safeguards, this kind of information can be seen by anyone, and could pose some very dangerous threats to users. Consumer Reports also mentions 4.7 people have clicked a thumbs-up “like” button on a page about a health condition, information the Reports say could be used against them by insurers.

Even those who take great care to share their information with only their friends could find themselves in trouble, as some third-party apps can access data through one of their friends’ logins.

One way some users are keeping themselves safe is to come up with fake names, ages, and occupations for their profiles. When Consumer Reports polled Facebook users, they found 25% of those polled created false aliases in order to protect their privacy and information. So, how does one keep their privacy secure when on Facebook?

According to the report, users should:

- Think before you type. Even if you delete your Facebook account, certain information can stick around for as long as 90 days. `

- Review your privacy settings on a regular basis and see how your own page looks to other people.

- Protect basic information, such as your town or employer. And remember that sharing certain details with “friends of friends” could expose you to a lot of people.

- Your username and photo are public, so users concerned about privacy may want to leave out a picture of themselves.

- Set your controls to limit the information that Facebook apps can see about you.

The Internet Changes World, But Most People Won’t Notice

With IP addresses now depleted, the Internet Society is leading the launch of IPv6 to allow the web to continue growing.

Without adopting IPv6, people surfing the web will have to go through a transitional gateway before entering a non-updated site using IPv4, making the experience slower. On launch day Wednesday, website owners are encouraged to permanently enable IPv6 — the next generation of Internet protocol.

“World IPv6 Launch Day is a lot larger than people understand,” John Curran, president and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers, told Mashable in an email. “IPv6 is the single largest upgrade in the history of the Internet. It’s not a small decision for the major content providers to turn on IPv6 and leave it on.”

“Going forward, Internet users will be forced to go through transition gateways to reach businesses that do not similarly upgrade by adding IPv6 connectivity, with the result being slower connections and services for their customers,” Curran added. “The good news is that done properly, Internet users globally will not notice any significant difference in their daily lives.”

Hundreds of organizations are making the switch — Google, Facebook and Time Warner Cable, to name a few.

Internet Service Providers will be able to use IPv6 to connect new customers to the web, while existing customers are unlikely to notice a change. Companies and websites should speak with their ISP or hosting company to get IPv6 turned on their existing Internet connection.

News of IPv6 and the lack of available IP addresses with IPv4 was announced in February 2011.

Facebook Will Disappear by 2020, Says Analyst

                                                                   

Facebook‘s sliding stock price has at least one hedge fund manager predicting a dismal decade ahead for the social network.

“In five to eight years they are going to disappear in the way that Yahoo has disappeared,” Ironfire Capital founder Eric Jackson told the CNBC show Squawk on the Street on Monday.

“Yahoo is still making money, it’s still profitable, still has 13,000 employees working for it, but it’s 10% of the value that it was at the height of 2000,” Jackson added. “For all intents and purposes, it’s disappeared.”

So how exactly does Jackson see Facebook’s power eroding by decade’s end? He says it will be the continued emergence of the mobile web — and Facebook’s struggle to adapt to that paradigm shift.

“The world is moving faster, it’s getting more competitive, not less,” he said. “I think those who are dominant in their prior generation are really going to have a hard time moving into this newer generation.

“Facebook can buy a bunch of mobile companies, but they are still a big, fat website and that’s different from a mobile app.”

Facebook bought the wildly popular mobile photo-sharing app Instagram — which some saw as a potential rival — for $1 billion in April. Still, the company has acknowledged mobile as a potential stumbling block for sustained growth.

In its required initial pre-IPO disclosure of 35 “risk factors” released in February, the company admitted that as mobile use of Facebook and the web in general continues to expand, its ad-free mobile platform will become more problematic. In an amended filing in May, the company underscored that challenge again.

Facebook stock officially went on sale on May 18 at $38 per share. It closed Monday at $26.90.

Jackson sees Facebook as a member of the second of three generations of modern Internet companies. The first generation, highlighted by businesses such as Google and Yahoo, served as portals that organized and aggregated the web’s wealth of information. The second generation, most notably Facebook, capitalized on an emerging social web.

The third generation is made up of companies whose sole goal is leveraging and monetizing mobile users.

“When you look over these three generations, no matter how successful you are in one generation, you don’t seem to be able to translate that into success in the second generation, no matter how much money you have in the bank, no matter how many smart PhDs you have working for you,” Jackson says.

“Look at how Google has struggled moving into social, and I think Facebook is going to have the same kind of challenges moving into mobile.”

What do you think Facebook’s status will be in five years? Share your predictions in the comments.