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OK, for those of you only interested in the family stuff, you can skip the following chatter.

I had lots of big thoughts in my head on technology and society, but here it is 11:22, so I’m going to just leave you with some statistics and musings.

• Did you know that according to Eric Schmidt at Google “the search numbers [on Google] in mobile (cell, treo, blackberry) are more than three times in use than persona[l] computers.” [see the entry in John Battelle’s Searchblog on Google Press Day]. 3xs!!! 3xs!!!! That is a mind-boggling number. It completely jumbles my thoughts about what is happening on the web, now — on how it is being used. 3xs!!!! (This means, my friends and family, that we are soooooo old hat with our DSL and laptops).
• How about the fact that photobucket.com drives 2% of all Internet traffic? (It’s a service that acts as a backend for photo/video storage for users of sites like myspace and ebay — the front end is nothing much, their real business is to be a backend for these other sites) [see the entry at Techcrunch] What does this say about the future, that 2% of all internet traffic, today, is to and from this backend with no real front face, with no business strategy to care about delivery to the end users. Welcome the service architecture of the future to the here and now. A backend right into all that social networking that is Web 2.0. It is *not* in the future.
• And how about the fact that the major networks are all selling TV shows online and that NBC is going to plan its “comeback” with online advertising (see the NYTimes article).

That world of tomorrow where phone/TV/radio/computer are all munged and the same is not of tomorrow. It is here. The mash-up experts know it. Our teenagers know it. The blogosphere knows it. They may not all know they know it, but they do.

It is pretty wild.

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