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From our does it blend department : Is Digg.com going down tonight?
We were impressed how well their web site scaled to the ever increasing user numbers. And they’ve been adding features over features. But tonight it seems for the first time the site is going down on its knees.
While the servers still reply immediately to any ping or traceroute packets, the wait for pages has now…
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Data visualization: Social networks around the world
With new data on Facebook making the headlines yesterday telling us that their user numbers are leveling out in the US and the UK, we remembered that we recently have seen a great info-graphic showing the use of social networks with the most popular providers per country around the world in the French Newspaper “Le Monde”
The data used in the graphic is from August 2007 but it’s interesting to see the popularity of providers in different countries. There are a few white spots on the map, some…
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Music: Led Zeppelin Reunion
How to tell if an event was a great and global success. Well the Led Zeppelin concert in London this Monday definitely put the bar up quite a bit for others.
If 2,000,000 want to come and you have to distribute the tickets through a lottery to the lucky 20,000 that’s definitely an indication. If news stations around the world are reporting on the event at prime time even a better one. Not to mention the hundreds of web blogs, news paper and magazine sites.
And if on web sites from YouTube to MySpace hundreds of video clips of the event appear within 24 hours – we stopped counting on YouTube at 250 – you have definitely won the crowds over…
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Cartoon: Being social made easy
Being “social” today can easily be integrated into your daily office routines…
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Web 2.0: Microsoft buys stake in Facebook
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Those who thought that the times of the “tulip trades” in the IT / Web industries are over could today learn an even new record in company valuation.
Microsoft bought a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook for USD240 million. This would value the three-year-old company at about USD 15 billion. While Facebook is expecting annual revenues of about $150 million this year, most likely the very high price is also related to a competition between rivals Google and Microsoft to buy a stake in the company
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Art: Saatchi Showdown
A Pop Idol-style competition has been launched by well known art collector Charles Saatchi to find a new exhibitor at his latest gallery that will open its doors during autumn this year in London. Anybody can submit images of their work to the website, where they will be judged by their peers in an giant online talent contest. The Showdown initiative is an extension of the popular “Your Gallery” section on Saatchi’s website, that provided a platform for online submissions from artists around the world. The website has received more than 50 million hits since going live earlier this month. Over the next six months thousands of art works will be voted down to twelve in a series of bi-weekly votes…
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