Tag Archive for 'bandwidth'

Seth’s bandwidth vs synchronicity graph: it’s a start

Published on August 5, 2009 in bandwidth, technology and Web2.0. Closed Tags: , , .

Seth Godin came up with a visualisation of ‘means of communication’: bandwidth vs sync(chronicity). He took a number of ‘old’ (postal mail, radio) and ‘new’ (blogs, Youtube and -of course- Twitter) technologies and ranked them on a 2D graph according to ‘quality’ (density or bandwidth) and ‘sync’ (speed of reaction).

Although it is an interesting way of visualizing things, and I consider Seth a very bright and creative guy, I am bothered by the fact that the graph is neither clear, correct nor complete.

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Dag van de download

Published on December 18, 2007 in bandwidth and Belgium. 2 Comments Tags: , , .

Dag Van De Download

Met deze actie willen wij een statement maken: stilstand is achteruitgang. De toestand op de Belgische markt dient te veranderen. De gebruikers willen van de datalimieten af, meer concurrentie en betere tarieven voor hun breedband-internet.
Dag van de download

Dit zijn de beste prijzen per GB in Belgie:
Breedband in Belgie: prijs per GB

En dit zijn de meest frappante gevallen van belachelijke data limieten:
Breedband in Belgie: volume rapst op

Youtube bandwidth: terabytes per day

Published on May 4, 2006 in bandwidth. 15 Comments Tags: , , , .

Youtube (Blogpulse)
Youtube seems to be losing some of its early adopters: Coolz0r quits the service, while Nathan even embarks on a grassroots activism mission to ruin the company (by getting its most popular uploaders banned – I have mixed feelings about that one). The issue is: to protect themselves from lawsuits, Youtube is taking the approach of deleting videos and even users upon first suspicion of (copyright) problems. They already received an ultimatum from NBC in Feb, then a proof to Jason Calacanis that it was ‘not a real business‘.

Youtube traffic
What I found interesting in the whole controversy are the astounding numbers that popped up: # videos shown per day, bandwidth usage, bandwidth costs. Get ready for some big numbers:
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