988 billion gigabytes

EMC already spends more than $1 billion each year for research and development is setting up an innovation network linking EMC research labs in India, China and Russia to deal with the information explosion.

They foresee a projected 988 billion gigabytes of in 2010 of email, images and other digital documents that need to backed up, managed, indexed, searched, secured and protected.

What's Cooking in EMC's Labs?

If it's hard to get your head around 988 billion (988,000,000,000) gigabytes, you might want to check out How Much Data is That? which, since I last looked at it about 2 years ago when terabyte was the last word has added petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte and yottabyte to describe very large numbers.

Ten things Google has found to be true

Ten things Google has found to be true

1. Focus on the user and all else will follow.
2. It's best to do one thing really, really well.
3. Fast is better than slow.
4. Democracy on the web works.
5. You don't need to be at your desk to need an answer.
6. You can make money without doing evil.
7. There's always more information out there.
8. The need for information crosses all borders.
9. You can be serious without a suit.
10. Great just isn't good enough.

Five Characteristics of Web Brands

From Marketing Profs: Five Key Characteristics of Web Brands

Web brands are useful
They have a clarity of purpose
The embrace simplicity
They interact and engage
They are customer-centric