Monthly archives for November, 2011
The World of Social Media 2011
Fantastic video infographic on the rise of social media and its impact on society and the internet.
Google no longer ranks as the #1 visited site in the internet, falling behind Facebook, while twitter is a rising star for sharing and communicating quickly.
The World of Social Media 2011 [via Video Infographs]
[picture] Mark Zuckerberg at th [...]
Getting More Out of Google
Tips and tricks for college students to get more out of Google. Writing papers and doing projects is a whole lot easier than it used to be.
Be sure to click on the infographic below for a larger view.
[picture] Respect Your Parents, They Did High School Without Google or Wikipedia [via Fave Pics]
[infographic] Infographic: Get More Out Of G [...]
How to Get More Women in Tech in Unde...
Caroline Drucker from SoundCloud gave a speech at Ignite NYC about how to get more women in the technology field. The trick? Stop calling them girls and start calling them women. Simple right?
How to Get More Women in Tech in Under a Minute, Caroline Drucker [via OreillyMedia]
[image] Caroline Drucker [via Daylife]
The History of Apple
Click on the image above for a large view.
From Pop Chart Lab:
The world’s most comprehensive mapping of Apple products, this print shows every computer released by Apple in the last thirty years, from the original Mac through the MacBook Air. Products are sorted according to type, including the connections between various form factors [...]
The Internet’s Hidden Infrastructure
Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors, by Ben Mendelsohn:
Lower Manhattan’s 60 Hudson Street is one of the world’s most concentrated hubs of Internet connectivity. This short documentary peeks inside, offering a glimpse of the massive material infrastructure that makes the Internet possible.
Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors [via [...]
American Censorship Day
Fantastic infographic on the dangers of the Stop Online Piracy Act, click on the picture for a larger view.
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Today, Congress holds hearings on the first American Internet censorship system. If it passes, [...]
DEFCON Search and Seizure Explained
With ever-growing amounts of our information and livelihood being put online, the laws and privacy issues regarding how this information is used for and against us is being constantly reassessed. Old laws are no longer applicable, and legislators are having trouble keeping up.
From the description:
An overview of recent developments surround [...]
Twitter Tracks 11-11-11 Around the Wo...
Twitter has put up a visualization of tweets mentioning 11:11 on 11-11-11.
This clip is a visualization of all the Tweets mentioning 11:11 on 11.11.11. Each “1” is a location that moves with the conversation on Twitter. Their scale varies depending on the volume of Tweets posted from the location they represent. You can see the main wave mov [...]
PROTECT IP Act Breaks The Internet
If you want to start a site, be it a forum, blog, or other online presence, this is a dangerous roadblock for you.
PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting “creativit [...]
Nook Touch Software Update
The Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch has gotten a software update from 1.0.1 to 1.1.0. Highlights are faster page turning, and improved font rendering. I found both to be slightly noticeable, but are well worth the update. The gray fuzz around letters has now largely disappeared, leaving a much crisper text. The page turning is al [...]
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