Thursday, August 19, 2010

The web isn't dying. Although video is booming...

Wired published an article in their latest magazine discussing the possibility that the web is dying and that other sectors of the internet are replacing it.

However, if you graph the data accurately, the web is booming, not dying. Wired's chart makes it look like web is in decline, but that's only as a percentage of data. Video is a huge data hog, so people are downloading a TON of pages and many videos - it's just that as a share of bandwidth video has exploded.

You'd think a publication like Wired would be able to make that distinction. But I guess with the iPhone and Facebook, it serves the larger tech narrative to contemplate the idea that walled gardens are in ascension while the open web is in decline.

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