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Week 6: GONE IN 60 SECONDS

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What can happen in 60 seconds? Below there are lists of things that happen every day every, every minute:

  1. 20.000+ new posts on Tumblr
  2. 13.000+ iPhone application downloaded
  3. 100+ questions asked on answers.com
  4. 600+ new videos on YouTube
  5. 70+ new domains registered
  6. 60+ new blogs created with 1.500+ new posts
  7. 168 million e-mails sent
  8. 694.445 new search queries
  9. 1.700+ Firefox downloads
  10. 695.000+ Facebook status updates with 79.364 new wall posts and 510.000 new comments
  11. 50+ WordPress downloads
  12. 6.660+ new pictures uploaded to flick
  13. 100+ LinkedIn accounts
  14. 320+ new twitter accounts and 98.000+ tweets
  15. 370.000+ minutes of voice calls on Skype
  16. 12.000+ new ads posted on craigslist
  17. 13.000+ hours of music steamed on Pandora
  18. 450 Windows 7 CDs sold
  19. 2.6 million CDs made and 1.820 TB od data created
  20. 232 computer get infected by malware
  21. 710 computers get sold and 555 of them with Intel CPU
  22. 81 iPads sold and 945 iPhone sold
  23. 11 Xbox sold
  24. 18 Amazon Kindle Fire sold
  25. 38 tons of e-waste generated
  26. 4.000 USB devices sold
  27. 2.500 ink cartridges sold
  28. 75.000$ added to Google revenues
  29. 11 million conversations on instant messengers
  30. 103 Blackberry sold
  31. 1.100 acres of land farmed in Farmville
  32. 219.000$ of total payments by PayPal with 10.000$ by mobile
  33. 950+ purchases on eBay
  34. 12 websites got hacked with 416 attempts
  35. 2 million internet users watched porn online.


And you, what could you do in 60 seconds?

Comments

alt_pl said…
Read lots of unimportant stuff on my phone which processor is much more powerful than Apollo 13's computers :)
3 November 2013 at 21:25
armandstanczak said…
Isn't it amazing? My 8 year old phone is more powerful that THE rocket that took astronauts to the moon. I don't even.... Words.
Cheers
5 November 2013 at 15:21
Unknown said…
Fascinating but i don't really know how to comment it. We have a CPU power 1 000 000 times greater than 40 years ago and it fits into our backpacks instead of filling the entire room. Technology now enables us to get news form entire world in less then 60 seconds. It's cool but i am still waiting for starships :P
8 November 2013 at 15:36
armandstanczak said…
Starships and lasers on everything. Our phones now are so powerful that a single one could take more than 1000 older space shuttles to the moon and back at the same time! It's just impressive.
8 November 2013 at 15:51
diana said…
Well, it's so amazing and yet so sad that we're wasting such resources (knowledge, brilliant minds) to create another gadgets for us to play instead of use it to explore the universe and accomplish far more :]
10 November 2013 at 13:28
Paweł Jóźwiak said…
Well a lot of things can happen In 60 seconds. For example we can push the button and BOOM the world is gone ( or the most part of it). I don’t really know how to comment this post in more sophisticated way
10 November 2013 at 16:30
Tomek Niezgoda said…
The list really just shows how big the world is now and how many people populate it. The one figure on this list that interested me is 103 units sold by Blackberry. We’ve had one of their newest touch phones in our company for a while. It’s amazing how fast even a behemoth like that can go down if it misses the opportunity and doesn’t innovate enough. Microsoft has learned this over the last few years and successfully changed its strategy to survive. We’ll see what happens with Blackberry. I don’t believe they will get back on their feet.
10 November 2013 at 17:33
Tomek Niezgoda said…
Those computers are also simple because simple is more difficult to break. In space, the same calculations were done a few times for confirmation.
10 November 2013 at 17:35
Sergio Cosentino said…
I could eat an ice cream (and get brain freeze), or tell a knock knock joke, or come up with three words starting with the letter P, or peel an orange (and a big one!), or realize that the brilliant idea I just had isn't actually that brilliant and scold myself in my thoughts for being so stupid as to think that idea would be good in any way...
Yeah, a lot of things happen in only 60 seconds all over the world. Our planet is so full of life and technological wonders, which make everything simpler and much, much faster. It is amazing how much can happen in such a short time, isn't it?
Well, I think I presented the two basic approaches to this subject: the funny one and the serious, philosophical one. Yeah, I'm sure that most people (and can actually see it based on other posts) will think about this in a philosophical way, but... why so serious? :P
10 November 2013 at 18:30
Natalia said…
In my opinion these numbers hold only small part of the truth and don't hold any significant information by self. For example what about first position, about tumbrl? What amount of these 20.000+ posts are not "just a copy of a copy of a copy" = "repost" if there were 30.000+ posts would it make any difference to anyone?
10 November 2013 at 18:33
Seisyll said…
Just as Tomek said those computers have to be very tough to break so sometimes you have to give up processing power.
Diana, if everyone thought as you then we wouldn't have PCs, because they were also branded as gadgets by many (especially IBM). And without PCs there would be no internet, and without internet this knowledge wouldn't be so available, and many those brilliant minds wouldn't have an opportunity to share their ideas and talk to each other. Those gadgets make our lives easier and enable us to do more. The other thing is that not every gadget affects progress and is rather a toy than a tool.
10 November 2013 at 18:42
lukasz-anwajler said…
I agree with Tomek about Blackberry, btw they lost ~100m dollars in one year or so.

In 60 seconds I can:

1. Write simple program.
2. Eat one hot dog.
3. Find, buy and download a music album.
4. Drink one beer.
5. Count to 60.
6. Do ~20 pushups.
7. Pitch my startup idea to investor or client.
8. Read Dilbert strip.
9. Take a shower if under time pressure.
10. Reply to 5 emails.
11. Decide what to eat in new restaurant.

...and more!
10 November 2013 at 19:47
Unknown said…
60 seconds is huge amount of time. For example in 15 seconds I can say that I saw great movie with Nicolas Cage and Angelina Jolie called "Gone in Sixty Seconds" and for remaining 45 seconds I will stare at this preview screen and finally when I will be sure that I wrote something usless and irrelevant I press this blue button called "Publish". Great topic by the way. Armand you are the best :)
10 November 2013 at 20:40
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10 November 2013 at 21:25
Unknown said…
What can I do in 60 seconds? Well... It seems a little. During the time I could for instance get dressed or read one page of a book or write a message to my friend. However, when I'm in a gym 60 seconds could be a lot of time. If I do a very dynamic exercise I can get tired after 30 second and the remaining time can be like eternity. Or If I hold my breath for a 60 second the time will fly much more slowly then normally. When I'm driving there might be a dangerous situation which will require from me a really fast reaction like turning to avoid a collision or breaking suddenly, so as not to hit another car. In such cases millisecond count. 60 second it's a lot and it's nothing, it depends on what are you doing. So I can say it is a kind of paradox.
10 November 2013 at 22:23
elos said…
1. Play 1/90 of football game.
2. Wash upper or lower jaw.
3. Destroy own or someone`s live.
4. Etc.
10 November 2013 at 22:56
Unknown said…
Many things we can do in one minute.
For example In sixty seconds you can run your web browser (if it's not IE) and write comment to obtain good mark ;)
10 November 2013 at 22:59
Blogger said…
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9 December 2016 at 12:47
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