Great presentation / stats / numbers of the current state, size, and uses of the Internet.

The main stats were:

• Email usage will shrink :: 247 billion emails sent per day, 200 are spam + growing trend of using social networks to communicate
• Women are social :: 84% social sites with more women than men
• 27MM tweets per day – has nothing on Facebook statuses
• Facebook has 260 Billion page views per month vs MySpace at 24 Billion
• Flickr hosts 4 Billion photos – Facebook gets 2.5 Billion new photos per month
• Youtube gets 1 Billion video views per day
• Hulu gets 1 Billion video views per month

I found this great post on innovation by Carol Rozwell — a Gartner analyst I am meeting — while I was reading her recent work… and since I will be posting a lot on the topic of innovation, thought it would be great to share this.

Innovation Proverbs by Joyce Wycoff

1. PEOPLE do innovation.
2. Innovation means doing something that hasn’t been done before.
   By definition there is risk involved.
   No risk; no innovation.
3. Innovation is a win-win process.
   It creates new value for the customer and the organization.
4. Innovation is a team sport.
   Teams are built around a common objective and trust.
5. Innovation requires risk.
   Risk-taking requires trust.
   Trust requires honesty and openness.
6. Innovation requires energy.
   Energy comes from challenges that excite the imagination.
7. Innovation is about creating the future.
   Cost-cutting and downsizing are about fixing the past.
8. Innovation is not just a rah-rah word or fad.
   It is an investment in the future that requires new processes, time, energy, commitment and resources.
9. Innovation requires new information — from co-workers, customers, suppliers, competitors and from the world.
10. Innovation requires time — time to think, time to tinker, time to talk about possibilities and ideas.
    Down-to-the-second controls can kill innovation.

There’s no question that TV & Social Web are closed together, just like pretty much everything social. From xbox live joint movie watching, to Google TV, and now Comcast’s Tunerfish.

Comcast’s Plaxo acquisition has borne fruit beyond its social media address book roots with Tunerfish, aimed at pulling social networking features and TV into one website. Currently in closed alpha, it lets TV watchers note what they’re watching and share with others, Foursquare style… so you check-in a show, check how many people have checked in, and keep an eye on what’s trending amongst the larger pool of viewers or just your friends. Of course there’s Facebook and Twitter integration, and an iPhone app will be available when the beta launches in the next few weeks.

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The mobile phone is a personal computing device — totally intimate to the user, which makes it perfect to run an OS from a company that makes all their money selling advertising. Google, nether shy or laid back, gave a preview or their Android 3.0 OS that will bundle versions of visual voice mail, maps, and a totally revolutionary voice add-on that will mine conversations in real time and provide amazing unintrusive personalized recommendations.

Can’t wait for my AT&T contract to expire and switch over!