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Video: 1h Blogumentary
Have a look at this one hour documentary on blogs…
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Time: Visualize the Blogosphere
Swedish company PrimeLabs is providing a new screen-saver called “Twingly” that visualizes worldwide RSS feeds on a globe in real time…
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Video: Web 2.0 explained
Kansas State University Professor “Michael Wesch” has made the second draft of his video available online that provides a flyover from early HTML to Web 2.0 in less than 5 minutes. Great work…The video is also online at “mojiti.com” were you can write your comments directly into the video itself…
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Second Life: Best quote on what it is
We documented some background information on Second Life a few weeks ago. Now Robert Scoble has provided us with the best definition from an interview he has done last week at LIFT show in Geneva:
He was interviewing Sister Judith Zoebelein, who manages the Vatican’s Web site and asked her:
“… do you think we’ll soon go [...]
Web: Why movie downloads are not getting off the ground
Gadget web log “Gizmodo” has a great top 10 list why movie downloads still didn’t make it. They estimate that it will take a few more years until movie downloads from the Internet become as common as DVDs or rentals. Their list of reasons includes…
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USA: H. Clinton’s web site traffic peaking
Interest in U.S. Democrats front runner Hillary Clinton seems to be on the rise - at least when you believe in web site statistics. Her web site was this week’s number two of Alexa’s “movers and shakers” with a rise of 40,000% in traffic…
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USA: Homeless Heat Map
Los Angeles based cartographic technology company “Cartifact” is providing an online map of homeless people in downtown L.A. Downtown Los Angeles has the largest homeless population in the United States. The Downtown Los Angeles Homeless Map uses raw data collected bi-weekly by police counts of those sleeping on the streets for the map display…
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Video: Wardriving meets Mainstream
What was once considered an underground way to get free bandwidth - driving around with a computer in a car and trying to find unprotected or otherwise “open” wireless Internet access points aka “war driving” - is now more and more being covered by mainstream media. This time it’s BBC 3 with their…
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Web Browsers: Vulnerability comparison between IE and Firefox
The “Washington Post” has an interesting comparison of security vulnerabilities for the two most used web browsers - Internet Explorer and Firefox. The report states that during 2006 Internet Explorer was unsafe for 284 days while Firefox was unsafe for only 9 days. To calculate the unsafe periods the report uses statistics on how long it took…
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Second Life: Finally some useful numbers and it’s 20,000 not 2 Millions
Linden Labs Second Life really had it the last days. First the press stops praying and hyping and gets a bit more critical - see this “Boing Boing” article to name just one - and then their whole system came to a halt yesterday and is now slowly coming back up again. But what we were really waiting for and couldn’t find was that someone puts that whole hype back in line - so we provide you the figures ourselves…
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…We think its time to get back to real life and see “Second Life” as what it is - just one of many online games with some success. On the charts with the Asian figures alone you would have problems to plot the numbers for Second Life as they are so much smaller than even those from games with medium success. And that’s after all the hype and massive increase in user numbers for Second Life…
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