News of this week

In my ongoing assertion that the velocity of the digital inflection point is increasing, here's some more news of the week that I found of interest:

• Facebook announces 200 million members If they were a country they'd be the 4th largest on the planet.

• Apple's iTunes iPhone/iPod App Store has its 1 billionth application downloaded today and Netflix delivered its 2 billionth movie on April 1st. It took them 8 years to deliver their first billion and just over two years to get the 2nd.

• CBS's March Madness Online Streaming traffic was up 75% over last year. 7.5 million unique users compared to 4.7 million last year and 1.8 million in 2007.

• The NFL is using "Ghost" Facebook accounts to gain personal intelligence about potential draft choice's. Scary! Who else is spying on you?

• More than 97% of all emails sent are unwanted according to a Microsoft security report published this week.
  

• AT&T uses Twitter to inform cell phone subscribers about outages. Smart!

• Homer Simpson will be a new 44 cent stamp on May 7th.

Well maybe Homer has nothing to do with it, but his face on a stamp that will cost another penny is a sign of the time, no?

What do you think?