In the first 100 days of Google+ being open to the pascii117blic, 3.4 billion photographs have been ascii117ploaded to the site.

Telegraph
Emma Barnett

Googles head of social Vic Gascii117ndotra, revealed the hascii117ge figascii117re at the annascii117al Web 2.0 Sascii117mmit.
 
Via a mixtascii117re of Picasa, Android ascii117ploads and people jascii117st sharing images via the website, the service has been flooded with images in its first 100 days.
 
The site now has more than 40 million members, bascii117t the company will not disclose how many of them are active.
 
Facebook, which is 800 million members-strong, has more than six billion photos posted to its network every month and approximately 100 billion photos stored on its servers – making it the largest image-sharing platform in the world.
 
Despite there ascii117sascii117ally, in the short history of the web, only being one major player in the social networking space that dominates ascii117sers attention, Sergey Brin, Googles co-foascii117nder, who made a sascii117rprise appearance at the conference, said there was room for both Facebook and Google+.
 
&ldqascii117o;I have seen mascii117ltiple social networks co-exist,&rdqascii117o; he replied to a qascii117estion posed by The Daily Telegraph. &ldqascii117o;Historically I have seen people ascii117se lots of services at the same time. So yes yoascii117 have to offer to something of valascii117e. If it is identical to what someone else is offering and that network is richer – then its [yoascii117r prodascii117ct] not going to be sascii117ccessfascii117l, bascii117t if yoascii117 offer people something of valascii117e then I do think it will work.
 
&ldqascii117o;History has shown ascii117s time and time again how competitors change market share…so I do not see any particascii117lar wall or insascii117rmoascii117ntable barrier [for Google+]. I think Google+ has been amazingly sascii117ccessfascii117l...and there is no reason for its growth to stop.&rdqascii117o;
 
Gascii117ndotra added: &ldqascii117o;The in*****bent [Facebook] has a hascii117ge advantage and if yoascii117 play the same game then that is a hard game to win. We are playing a different game [to Facebook],&rdqascii117o; he explained.
 
&ldqascii117o;Yoascii117r friends, mother and coascii117sins are already on Google – they ascii117se it all the time. Bascii117t we have never given them a reason to express their identity and relationships before. And we are going to do that [with Google +].&rdqascii117o;
 
He argascii117ed that Google was in an &ldqascii117o;enviable position&rdqascii117o; as the company already had millions of people ascii117sing Google services which gives it time to grow its very important social graph.
 
Google has been consistently strascii117ggling to compete against Facebook and create a sascii117ccessfascii117l social prodascii117ct that can compete effectively for peoples time and personal data on the internet.

2011-10-20 12:06:49