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edcantor

(325 posts)
Mon May 21, 2012, 10:13 AM May 2012

YouTube users now uploading 72 hours of video per minute

Happy birthday to YouTube. To get an idea of just how big the video sharing site has become in the seven years since its launch, consider this: users are now uploading 72 hours of video to YouTube per minute. That's a 50 percent gain from a year ago, when users were uploading a meager 48 hours of footage a minute. On the consumption side, YouTube now serves over 3 billion hours of video to 800 million unique users a month, or about 15 minutes per user. What's really remarkable is that YouTube's growth is actually accelerating: while the hours per minute figure increased 25 percent in the eight months leading up to January, it's grown by another 20 percent in the five months since then.


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zeemike

(18,998 posts)
2. That almost seems impossible
Mon May 21, 2012, 10:26 AM
May 2012

that such computing power is possible.
I know 50 years ago if you told some well educated person in electrical engineering that it would happen you would probably get a big laugh.
But here it is....and it may be old technology next year.

Dash87

(3,220 posts)
4. The number of transistors on a chipset doubles roughly every 2 years (Moore's Law)
Mon May 21, 2012, 10:45 AM
May 2012

Basically, what this means is, more space, more computing power, better computers. Your 2 year old computer technically has been put to dust by a new computer. This is going to be exponential.

What does that mean for the next 50 years? 100 years? Basically, future technologies will literally blow our minds (assuming we don't blow ourselves up first with nukes).

15 years ago, the very concept of YouTube probably would have been laughed at. I could picture the inventors of YouTube pitching their idea, and people saying that it was both impossible and would never catch on.

Did you know that Bill Gates once said that "No one will need more than 637 kilobytes of memory for a personal computer." Inexpensive memory now runs from 2 Gigabytes to 4 Gigabytes. 2 Gigabytes = 2.097,152 kilobytes, or ~3300 X more memory than Bill Gates said we would ever need.

The normal hard drive now has around 1 Terabyte of space on it. In the future, prepare to see 10 TB --> 30 TB --> 100 TB --> 500 TB --> 1 Petabyte --> 1 Exabyte. (1 Exabyte = 1,048,576 Terrabytes = 1.12589991 × 10^15 Kilobytes), all on your own personal computer!

 

edcantor

(325 posts)
5. Moore's law is very true but
Mon May 21, 2012, 11:46 AM
May 2012

I'm wondering if the average person really needs more than a terabyte or two ever in his/her lifetime, unless, of course, they are making high dynamic range music videos. In which case, use the cloud or Youtube instead of a larger memory drive

Dash87

(3,220 posts)
6. Data will become increasingly complex.
Mon May 21, 2012, 12:35 PM
May 2012

In the future, one video might hog 1 TB of data, for example (but be of ridiculously good quality). There's also unseen changes and advances that will require more data.

If you're wondering about now, though, probably not. Depends what they want to do with the computer, like you said.

MattBaggins

(7,894 posts)
10. Terabytes? Manufacturers are coming out with 4K televeisions already.
Mon May 21, 2012, 04:04 PM
May 2012

4K 100+ megapixel 3D movie cameras will be at walmart in 5 years tops. Family vacation to Disney World will fill up a terabyte.

hunter

(38,264 posts)
7. Sturgeon's Law: 90% of it is crap.
Mon May 21, 2012, 01:18 PM
May 2012
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_Law

In the case of YouTube, the percentage is probably worse.

Some days I think YouTube is a space alien project to repel intelligent life forms -- a lighthouse of sorts, a warning of earth's dangerous shores.

DO NOT LAND HERE! THE STUPID, IT BURNS!

KG

(28,749 posts)
8. too much of it is 56-second segments of concerts shot from a smartphone
Mon May 21, 2012, 01:26 PM
May 2012

with crowd noises and vertigo inducing movement as a bonus. and what's funny is the 'wow, that's great!' comments...

 

edcantor

(325 posts)
11. 500 Years a day (a Brusspup illusion video)
Thu May 24, 2012, 02:56 PM
May 2012


I was asked by Youtube to participate in their "Play Means Business" Program. They gave me the statistic of "500 years of youtube videos are watched each day through social media sites" and asked if I could build an illusion around it. I thought VHS tapes would be a nice way to portray "video" and would be easy to work with to create the illusion. The only effects added to this video are the words added to the floor below "500 years" at the end of the video. This illusion was the most involved and most difficult illusion I've ever created. And it had to be created in a short period of time. Many thanks to Djamila and my dad for helping me with the project. If they weren't involved I could have never pulled it off. I had to find a building large enough to pull off the project. I was lucky to find a 100 year old building for rent and the owner was willing to rent it for the 5 or 6 days that I needed it. Then we had to build a 16 X 16 foot wooden structure from which I could suspend the tapes. We covered the wooden structure with chicken wire to have multiple points to hang the tapes from. One of the most challenging parts of the project was suspending the structure. It weighed about 300 pounds. We called in a friend that wasnt afraid to climb up the 100 year old wooden columns and beams to hook up a pully. After an hour of climbing and hooking up ropes, he tied the lose end of the rope to his truck and then backed his truck up which raised the structure 12 feet in the air. Now it was time to start hanging tapes. We had to tie 2 pieces of string to each tape and then run the top of the string through a paper clip. I used the paper clips as a hook. We started hanging tapes at 3pm on thursday and worked nonstop until 5am Friday. I calculated that I climbed the 8 foot ladder a total of 1000 times. We were all extremely tired by the end of the process. We were all very excited at the end result. I
filmed the illusion the following day and submitted the footage to youtube. They were very happy with the results.

If you enjoy the video, please share it with your friends. Thanks!
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