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Facebook Photo Library Dwarfs Everything Else on the Planet [Facebook]
Source: http://gizmodo.com/5841667/facebook-photo-library-dwarfs-everything-else-in-the-planet
![500x photo libraries Facebook Photo Library Dwarfs Everything Else on the Planet [Facebook]](http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2011/09/photo-libraries.jpg "Facebook Photo Library Dwarfs Everything Else on the Planet")
Check out the gigantic volume of photos now stored in Facebook compared to Flickr, the Library of Congress and Instagram. I knew they were big, but I never imagined the difference could be so huge. 140 billion photos! It defies belief.
It’s 10,000 times larger than the photo catalog in the Library of Congress! And Flickr, which I erroneously thought would be larger than anything else, is just a tiny fraction of Facebook.
Digital cameras are now ubiquitous – it is estimated that 2.5 billion people in the world today have a digital camera. If the average person snaps 150 photos this year that would be a staggering 375 billion photos. That might sound implausible but this year people will upload over 70 billion photos to Facebook, suggesting around 20% of all photos this year will end up there. Already Facebook’s photo collection has a staggering 140 billion photos, that’s over 10,000 times larger than the Library of Congress.
According to 1000memories, so far humanity has taken 3.5 trillion. Right now, “every 2 minutes today we snap as many photos as the whole of humanity took in the 1800s.”
Maybe someday someone would do something incredibly useful with them, like monitoring the state of mind of the whole planet by analyzing the expressions and landscapes of all these photos.
![photos taken by year 01 Facebook Photo Library Dwarfs Everything Else on the Planet [Facebook]](http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2011/09/photos_taken_by_year_01.png "Facebook Photo Library Dwarfs Everything Else on the Planet")
It’s sad to see the demise of analog photos—and surprising that there were still four billion taken in the last year alone. [1000memories]
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Netflix spins DVD-by-mail service off into Qwikster, says it’s ‘done’ with price changes (video)
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/19/netflix-spins-dvd-by-mail-service-off-into-qwikster-says-its/
Over on Netflix’s official blog, company head Reed Hastings has announced in a surprisingly humble blog post and video (embedded after the break) that it’s splitting the DVD-by-mail business away into a new venture dubbed Qwikster. While the recent price changes already split the cost for each service, when this takes effect in a few weeks it will result in two different websites, two different sets of movie ratings and queues, and two different charges on customer’s bills. He admits two separate sites may make it more difficult to manage a presence on both, but says dropping the need for compatibility between the two will enable new features to balance that out. Another change? Netflix Qwikster (is there anything good about that name?) is getting into video game rentals, available for an extra charge similar to the existing Blu-ray disc option.
While the blog post blames a lack of communication for much of the backlash (and obviously cancellations), it’s about to become very clear that Netflix is “primarily a streaming company.” Also mentioned is “substantial” additional streaming content coming in the next few months. Whatever the company calls itself, charges, or changes on its website, if Netflix wants to talk its way back into subscriber’s good graces, starting with something new to watch is the way to do it.
Netflix spins DVD-by-mail service off into Qwikster, says it’s ‘done’ with price changes (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Reed Hastings’ Netflix spinoff isn’t about DVD success, it’s about hedging the stream
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/19/editorial-reed-hastings-netflix-spinoff-isnt-about-dvd-succes/
If you’ve just casually glanced over the mass reactions to Reed Hastings’ decision to split the DVD-by-mail business of Netflix into its own brand and company, you’ve probably been duped into thinking that it’s the second questionable move that the world’s most famed movie delivery service has made this year. But is it? Is a man who turned a red envelope into a symbol of near-immediate gratification really a moron? Did he really just bury the company he worked tirelessly to create? I highly, highly doubt it. Knee-jerk reactions are always fun to watch, but they’re rarely on-point. As with most things in life, the truth usually resides somewhere in betwixt the extremes. And in the case of Qwikster — the DVD-by-mail service that precisely no one asked for — the truth is hiding in exactly the place that Reed said it’d be: the future.
Editorial: Reed Hastings’ Netflix spinoff isn’t about DVD success, it’s about hedging the stream originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 19 Sep 2011 02:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Groupon, “the end is nigh”
. See below for the chorus and refrains.Now Iraq Has a Fake Apple Store [Image Cache]
Source: http://gizmodo.com/5836370/now-iraq-has-a-fake-apple-store
![500x iraqapplestore Now Iraq Has a Fake Apple Store [Image Cache]](http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2011/08/iraqapplestore.jpg "Now Iraq Has a Fake Apple Store")
This bodes well for Iraq’s post-war recovery: the once-and-kind-of-still-ravaged nation is now doing well enough to boast counterfeit haute electronics stores in its malls. This one looks a little… off, though.
For one, there are virtually no Apple products to be seen. Does the sign outside count as one? Why are they selling Ray-Bans? Are those MacBooks filled with actual MacBooks, or just more Ray-Bans? Will Apple even bother trying to shut this down? [9to5Mac via RedmondPie]
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A single 3-D glasses standard might help 3-D TVs catch on
Source: http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-d-glasses-standard-tvs.html
With 3-D TV sales not meeting their grandest expectations, set makers have decided it’s better to stand together, then fall apart. They’re now rallying behind a standard for 3-D active shutter glasses, though the fruits of their “Full HD 3D Glasses Initiative” will not be savored by consumers until sometime next year.
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