Topic: Interesting Facts

[Clive]

from Stratton Sclavos, the chairman and CEO of VeriSign.

Global web interactions per day as measured by VeriSign:
2000 . . . 1 billion per day
2005 . . . 15 billion per day

Number of blogs worldwide in 2005:
22 million

Number of blogs worldwide in 2010:
Approaching 1 billion, spurred by Flickr and other new blog uses.

Registered Skype users worldwide just before eBays purchase of Skype:
60 million

Price-per-unit that RFID chips need to reach in order to ignite massive deployment of RFID chips:
$.05 (the magic nickel according to Sclavos)

U.S. household use of Tivo and Tivo-like devices in 2005:
3%

Projected U.S. household use of Tivo and Tivo-like devices in 2010:
70%

Percent of TV ads skipped by users of Tivo and Tivo-like devices:
79% "