Tuesday, April 14, 2009
The next web
Friday, April 03, 2009
Jfoobar translates my columns on open source
The guys over at Jfoobar were so kind as to translate one of my dutch columns, about buying open source. You can find it at Jfoobar. I wrote a bunch of them, so stay tuned for more on Jfoobar.
Friday, February 27, 2009
YouTube is a very small TV network
Google executives recently claimed that YouTube users submit 13-15 hours of video material every minute. Downloads are ten times that.
Although these numbers are impressive, they translate into an average viewer population of 90.000. The Super Bowl typically attracts close to 100 million viewers. American Tv networks measure their audience by the million. Popular programs attract 10-20 million simultaneous viewers.
Can the Internet's technical infrastructure sustain this? At 1 megabit/sec for each stream, the total YouTube traffic would compare to one sixth of the peak traffic on the Amsterdam Internet Exchange, so that would not be too hard.
Even with growth rates of 40% per year, it will take until 2016 before YouTube passes the 1 million simultaneous viewers mark.
TV is not dead. Yet.
Although these numbers are impressive, they translate into an average viewer population of 90.000. The Super Bowl typically attracts close to 100 million viewers. American Tv networks measure their audience by the million. Popular programs attract 10-20 million simultaneous viewers.
Can the Internet's technical infrastructure sustain this? At 1 megabit/sec for each stream, the total YouTube traffic would compare to one sixth of the peak traffic on the Amsterdam Internet Exchange, so that would not be too hard.
Even with growth rates of 40% per year, it will take until 2016 before YouTube passes the 1 million simultaneous viewers mark.
TV is not dead. Yet.
