I'm not so sure. According to Forrester, the average American will use 187 diffe...

mhb · on March 24, 2011

Why would anyone believe that number? It sounds insane.

raspie · on March 24, 2011

Why not? They used a pretty solid methodology, I'm sure. http://xkcd.com/605/

nlavezzo · on March 24, 2011

That is an awesome comic. I'm going to totally use that.

gjm11 · on March 24, 2011

Er, I think it's a joke. Did I miss the point?

mhb · on March 24, 2011

I'm thinking that I and 10 other people did. Doh.

mortenjorck · on March 24, 2011

Startup idea:

A photo sharing service sharing service.

kirpekar · on March 24, 2011

Startup Idea: Do a better job than Forrester

gohat · on March 24, 2011

Maybe I'm not average, but I've used around 2-3 photo sharing services in the past 5 years.

haploid · on March 24, 2011

Whoosh

kongqiu · on March 24, 2011

187 indeed :) Going to have to call in a 5150 to keep average investors from being burned this time...

kovar · on March 24, 2011

You've been associated with California LE, or similar, me thinks.

Edit: Apparently Van Halen used "5150" for an album title. Shows how out of touch I am.

tesseract · on March 24, 2011

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SoCalization

kovar · on March 24, 2011

Ahh, I didn't know it had hit the vernacular. Thank you.

joejohnson · on March 24, 2011

187 different photo sharing services?! I think that's a gross over estimation... I bet I'll use closer to 10-20 by 2016.

jerf · on March 24, 2011

No no, you missed the point. It's not that 187 photo sharing services will exist, it is that each American will personally use, on average, 187 photo sharing services. About a thousand will exist. Forrester also projects that Scoble will be the top user on all of them.