Network television has owned the airwaves for decades and shows no signs of slowing despite the increased popularity of challengers such as online streaming video. In a world where many are declaring traditional television dead, the market has grown 0.2% year over year. It’s not much, but it’s still on the positive side. Streaming video, on the other hand, grew over 35% in the same time frame. Is it conceivable that YouTube, Hulu, and the like can eventually overtake traditional television as the primary media source? That’s the question that our friends at Wistia posed in the infographic below….

Despite being the most used form of online communication, email has major drawbacks. Since the dawn of spam, email has grown to become both our most used asset as well as our most despised necessity. Many have gone away from it (myself included), only having it available as a last resort when people refuse to use more civilized forms of online communication. And yet, email continues to dominate much of our online lives. This infographic by our friends at Ccloop discusses the history of email and breaks down the 4 biggest announces: Attachment Chaos The Great Flood Super Spam Forgetful Forwards…

Having the latest shiny new gadget is something that many people strive for. They are the ones who are willing to wait in line, get test samples or beta invites for new technology, and generally consider last year’s model an abomination. They are the early adopters and there are distinct advantages to being one. There are, however, costs as well. This graphic by our friends at SocialCast explores those costs and shows how people who are getting the latest and greatest may be getting a little ripped off in the process. Being an early adopter is often a status symbol, and as with most status symbols,…

A very large majority of people on the internet are using social media in one way or another. It’s surrounding us and we’re rallying around it. Businesses have been tapping into this growing industry for years and it has reached a tipping point to where social is encompassing business and becoming the primary tool used by many. This infographic by our friends at GetSatisfaction breaks down the current and gives us a view to the future of the segment. Will we be using Google+ and Facebook to pump out most of our marketing and customer interaction in the near future? Some already are. Click to enlarge….

In the 21st century, most people are aware that there are little creatures living in or on everything that we touch, eat, and breath. Microbes are a fact of life that many ignore simply because we can’t do a lot about it. We try to stay clean, use antibacterial soap, and wash things that come in contact with food, but what about our beds? Again, it’s something that we ignore. A recent study by SleepBetter took a look at pillows and mattress pads that are being used by college students across the US. Bacteria, yeast, fungus – yep, they’re all there. While nobody is suggesting that we bleach our beds every…

Solar power has long been perceived as the answer to many of our energy woes. It is relatively efficient, extremely renewable, and as clean as it comes. It’s also extremely expensive when compared to the “dirty fuels” of coal, oil, and even natural gas. If it were possible to put solar panels on every roof, what impact would it have? Is it even conceivable? According to Techvert, “It will be very easy for trolls and skeptics to take jabs at the concept. It’s impractical, expensive, inefficient, and extremely unlikely to ever happen in any of our lifetimes. Still, one should ask, ‘What if?’” The…

The easiest way to get people to use a service is to save them money. That fact has been the catalyst for the tremendous growth of Daily Deals group buying companies like Living Social and Groupon over the last couple of years. Will it continue to be hot the way that other aspects of social networking have or will it die as quickly as tie dye? That’s the question that the folks over at GPlus tackled with the infographic below. In it, they take a look at these and other sites, comparing how large they’ve grown both online and through physical presence and try to determine what the future holds for this type…

There is a well-known transition of thought that has been singularly clear since the beginning of human existence: Data becomes information Information becomes knowledge Knowledge becomes wisdom It’s that simple. Over the centuries, the way we store and manage data has evolved in ways that have created a nearly-infinite improvement. What takes seconds to store now could have taken literally years to reproduce on stone tablets in the past. It’s an amazing technological world. This infographic by SocialCast breaks down that evolution visually. Click to enlarge. …

Every IT person, developer, and programmer has an opinion when it comes to the various open source content management systems out there. It often comes down to functionality and ease of use, but even then the lines are often blurred and there is rarely a clear-cut victor. Wordpress vs Drupal vs Joomla – which is really the king of open source CMS? Our friends at Devious Media tackled the question and did a comprehensive breakdown, putting each CMS under a microscope to answer the most important questions to help people make a choice. For us, the choice is clear, but blogging is not the only thing important…

With Google+ ramping up (and in some cases recently, ramping down) in its battle against Facebook, many are looking at the revenue models to determine who will eventually be the winner. The goals for both are the same in essence but the way they make money is very different. Google’s goal is to create the central point through which business, particularly local products and trust-factor services, is done. They want individuals to reach businesses through their conglomeration of services and they want businesses to reach the people through the same. It’s a combination of connections and discovery…