Another example of "big data": Last.fm
Last.fm scrobbles up 40 billion songsSamuel Axon, mashable.com, 4/19/10
This century is a century of "Big Data". Here is another example of the amount of information that are processed regularly "on the cloud".
From Mashable.com: "[Last.fm] gathers data from other music services and applications including iTunes, Xbox Live and Winamp to make a record of every song you listen to. The process is called scrobbling. On average, 800 songs are scrobbled every second on Last.fm. [...] CBS says that the most popular artists on the service include The Killers, Coldplay, Muse and Oasis, providing some insight into the site’s cultural community."
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