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Japanese Earthquake Data Visualized
http://vimeo.com/21113436 Jona Hoier has visualized USGS earthquake activity data in Japan from March 9 to March 16. What is shocking...
From Bits to Yottabytes: Everything You Ever Needed to Know About Data Measurements
We've all heard of bytes, kilobytes, and megabytes for decades. The last couple of decades has put "gigabytes" into our...
Demand Media Lives On: The Moral of Google’s “Farmer” Algorithm Change
When the Demand Media witch hunt started a few months ago, journalists and bloggers called for action against what they...
Egypt: Why the Web is Broken (And Why We Can’t Fix it)
The recent events in Egypt have, among other things, been inspiring, terrifying and remarkable. But though the political situation is...
Verizon’s Knockout Punch: Unlimited Data for iPhone
It was never quite certain when Verizon would get its hands on the iPhone, but we recently learned that it...
4 Issues Leading To A Permanent Fail Whale
Twitter has been known to push the envelope on social communication and interaction. Twitter is even credited for heavily influencing...
Facebook’s Epic Reach: Mapped and Intertwined
We already know that Facebook is huge, but now we have true visual feedback to how impressive the Facebook empire...
Will “Banks” For Data Solve Our Privacy Woes?
For years now, what web sites do with our data has become a serious problem in the online world. From...
Mobile Innovation’s Greatest Threat: Greedy Providers?
Greedy providers. The mobile industry is all about squeezing as much money from the consumer as it can. But with...
Microsoft Unleashes The Archivist
Microsoft's MIX online lab actually contains some pretty cool stuff. Take The Archivist, for example. Microsoft's newest MIX online project...
Google Latitude’s History Dashboard Helps You Remember Where You Left Your Everything. Except Your Phone.
I can't bring myself to use Google Latitude - the fact that my phone is not a smartphone is besides...
Google’s Secure Socket Layer Search: Better Privacy, But Are There Limits?
Privacy has been the buzzword all over the Techi web lately. Facebook has been stomping all over it and then...
Doctors Monitor Pregnancy With Smartphones
https://youtu.be/infSJs85YOg?si=FVQVjTqCIY4MdtJD There are some pretty awesome phone features and apps out there lately but it doesn't seem like much can...
A Visual Homage To Data Storage
(Image Credit: "Evolution of Storage" by Curtiss Spontelli | CC) We consume an amazing amount of data, but we also...
Foursquare Integration One More Reason Not to Laugh at Bing
When Bing first launched, we all treated it a little like the little engine that couldn't; why, we all asked,...
We Say Instapaper Will Be A Leading iPad App
Looking for a neat way to take notes and read bits and pieces on that brand new iPad you’ve already...
USB: Pretty Little Gold Bar Stacks 8GB Capacity
We all know that when it comes to back-up, everyone knows they should and few manage to keep a strict...
Apple Sells iPhones Contract-Free As New Model Looms
Apple has begun selling the iPhone 3GS contract-free in the US as it prepares to introduce a new model iPhone,...
iPhones to Double as Social Networks and Triple as Walkie-Talkies
It looks like the iPhone, already a kind of digital swiss army k***e, will someday have walkie-talkie capabilities and be...
Big Brother is no longer just watching. Myspace to start selling user data.
MySpace? What's MySpace? Oh just a website that we can social network with each other. Instead of calling me, you...