The Internet is a beautiful thing.

The thing about ownership is, you don’t really own it.

For those of you who are wondering, prepare to lose whatever you were going to get paid for the next hour.

Make that three hours.

Live stream the Web 2.0 Summit on mashable now. They’ll be speakers like James Gleick (Author of The Information), Bill Maris (Google Ventures), and Sean Parker (Founders Fund). The conference kicked off at 2:00 p.m. PT Monday and will start up again at 9:00 a.m. PT Tuesday and Wednesday.

We all know social media is growing. 50 million, 600+, 57% – blah blah blah the numbers are just so much noise. But an article posted by a friend of mine, Michael Wu, drew my attention to the outliers and all the magic came rushing back.