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Data-Visualization: Browser statistics as tree rings
Great interactive data visualization of the changing market share for the leading web browsers since 2002.
The source code for the animation is available by right clicking on the flash animation.
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Duvet-Dayz: More than 500,000 spam messages received and blocked
Earlier this month we received our 500,000nd spam message and thanks to our spam filters it was blocked like the many others before.
And the winner is..
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Humor: Google Trends meets Captain Obvious
Some things might be obvious, but when comparing cookies and weight on Google Trends, you’ll see that to the end of the year people seemingly care less for their weight and start looking for cookies.
Another one we’ve found is snow and ski (see below).
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Google Search: List of available magazine
We played around with Google’s new feature to search and display complete magazines and here’s the list of currently available magazines we could find (35 magazines - in alphabetic order)…
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MTV Online Music Library opened
This is what we were waiting for. MTV Music has opened its huge music video collection and created a Hulu-like portal with currently about 22,000 music videos.
Now just add playlists and we will all be happy.
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Microsoft announces web based Office Applications
Finally the move from Microsoft we have been waiting for quite some time. MS is going to bring (parts of ) its Office Suite into the Browser.
As announced today MS Office Web Apps will run not only within IE but also with Firefox and Safari. The web apps will be “lightweight versions” of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, but Microsoft said at the MS PDC the functionality included should be comparable to Google’s online office suite…
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INet: Google adds email sobriety test
Google has acted to protect its users against a seemingly widespread problem with email: Once you’ve pressed the send button it’s out in the wild. And some times you might have written something you shouldn’t have send to that person.
Seemingly for many this phenomenon occurs more frequently at certain times of the week / day - let’s say late Friday night.
From now on you can setup your Gmail account that at…
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Data Visualization: Internet Censorship
A great visualization by Good Magazine and the Lifelong Friendship Society on Internet censorship around the world.
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Video: YouTube in Super-HD
A great idea - how to create a kind of super-HD on YouTube.
And no video would be better suited for that then Rick Astley’s - Whenever you need somebody
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Humor: Change your nationality with Google Chrome
Not even out a day as a Beta release Google’s new web browsers already has massive impact on people living in parts of Europe.
If your Belgium, Austrian, Danish, Dutch or from parts of the Czech Republic and Switzerland from now on you’re part of the Greater German Reich. Please send your passport to Google and…
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