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Visualizing a day on the internet

Design / March 6 by Rocco Penn

As the internet and mobile technology enter more aspects of our lives in this digital age, the activities we perform on a daily basis continues to expand at an extreme pace. It’s the way of the world that 2 million blog posts are published daily, that email dominates much of our time with nearly 300 billion sent, and our lives are hitting the web via pictures at a pace that is astounding. It can only get bigger from here, but this infographic depicts where we stand as of this day. Click to enlarge. Created by: MBA Online…

Why Windows web browsing market share drop means very little to Microsoft

Microsoft / February 18 by JD Rucker

If you torture numbers long enough, you can make them say anything. In this case, it’s Chitika, Techcrunch, and others who are raising alarms about something that’s relatively meaningless, particularly to Microsoft. The title of the Chitika post is “Demise of the PC? Windows Web Browsing Market Share Declines by 10% in Six Months”. Their data is solid and appears to be completely accurate. The conclusion, resounding what has been spoken many times by many experts, is that the PC is dying a slow death.. No. It’s not. The rise of mobile devices and the popularity of Apple products has clearly opened…

The growing reach of social media's election impact

Lifestyle / February 6 by Rocco Penn

Social media and the internet in general had dramatic effects on the election in 2008. This year is proving to give even more influence to online opinions and news aggregation as bumps are going up and down dramatically both with the GOP primaries and with the general public’s opinion of all candidates, including President Barack Obama. This infographic by MDG breaks down how social media has impacted the election so far and what effects it will have come November. Click to enlarge. …

Website owners, here's how to protest SOPA on January 18th

Lifestyle / January 14 by Sal McCloskey

Social news aggregator Reddit.com took the lead and announced that they were “going black” on January 18th to protest SOPA and PIPA. Despite backpedaling in Congress, the need is greater than ever for people to learn what the bills will mean if passed. Other websites need to follow Reddit’s lead. Several have, including Cheezburger, GOOD, and MoveOn, but it’s not enough. If you’re a website owner, Sara Jo Chipps has an easy way for you to participate. Drop the following code in between your two <HEAD></HEAD> tags on your site, your users will be redirected to the blackout page that…

Internet access IS a human right

Lifestyle / January 5 by JD Rucker

Technology and philosophy have been at the center of more debates lately than ever before. It’s clear that technology is advancing faster than anyone would have imagined a decade ago, while an argument could be made that the philosophies that brought the world this far are starting to regress to less-civilized times. In the question of whether or not internet access is a human right or simply a privilege, technology and philosophy collide dramatically. The arguments that Vinton G. Cerf, Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist and a prominent computer scientist recognized as a “father of the Internet,”…

"The Internet in 1969" was eerily correct

Lifestyle / December 12 by Scarlett Madison

Predictions of the future are often foolish and do not give an accurate representation of reality. In this case, they got it nailed pretty nicely. We don’t know the history of this video, but it seems authentic. In it, they predict webcam, online bill pay, email, and online shopping as well as a few other nice features of today’s technological world. Not bad for hippies of the 60s. …

What people are doing online right now

Lifestyle / November 20 by Scarlett Madison

The internet takes up a huge part of our daily lives. Many of us have integrated real-world activities into our online and mobile experience to the point that everyday items such as checks, calendars, newspapers, and letters have become completely unused by a good chunk of western society. The infographic by Flowtown below breaks down common activities of people surfing the web. Here, we highlight some of the most interesting data: 61% of adult internet users bank online 21% download podcasts 78% research products online while 71% buy them online Despite their popularity, only 13% use Twitter…

Rich people spend 30% more time online than everyone else

Lifestyle / October 1 by Connor Livingston

The way we all consume media has changed dramatically over the last decade and even more so over the last couple of years. Affluent Americans are spending much more of their time online than others, a staggering 29.7% more to be exact. The research performed by BuySellAds can be found in the infographic below. It spells out a trend that most know intuitively, that reaching the upper-echelon of income is becoming increasingly easier through the internet. Click to enlarge. …

The current state of digital education

Hardware / August 22 by Rocco Penn

The promise of the internet 2 decades ago was that it would help to reshape the way we do things. Education has always been considered something that a connected world could do better. In many ways, the dream has been realized, but there’s still so much more to do. From a sheer business perspective, education is a huge market. There are hundreds of companies vying for a spot in the growing digital education field. Most are failing to reach the masses. It’s a hard shield to crack – education has been shrouded behind tradition and stubborn reluctance to change even in light of the potential that computers,…

Is the "daily deals" phenomenon just a fad?

Offbeat / July 29 by Connor Livingston

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…

10 tips to keep your family safe online

Offbeat / June 19 by JD Rucker

Safety has been a concern online since kids started showing their parents how to surf. Now, as adults are realizing that there are real-world dangers online, the concern has grown into a threat that must be addressed. This graphic by our friends at ZoneAlarm breaks down the potential for exposure to the negative elements that fill the internet. Sometimes, even things that seem harmless on the surface can be bad. Here are 10 tips to keep your family safe. Click to enlarge. …

Three misguided fears about the web

Lifestyle / May 18 by Navneet Alang

Every so often, almost like clockwork, someone will come out and say that the internet is ruining everything. This week, it’s the New York Times’ Bill Keller, who fears that “we may be unlearning, tweet by tweet… complexity, acuity, patience, wisdom, intimacy” The usual response to this from web-heads and technologists is a slightly more nuanced version of “OMG, Bill Keller is soooo stupid!”. And given the number of times it happens, that’s understandable. It gets frustrating to see people repeating the same arguments over and over again. Yet, at the same time, people are clearly worried….

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