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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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Data Visualization: Web Trend Map 2007
Another trend map in the form of a tube map. Seemingly these “tube maps” are getting rather popular this year. This trend map from Information Architects Japan shows all the big players, the current Internet trends and how they’re connected…
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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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Data Visualization: Trend map for 2007 and beyond
The two web sites “Nowandnext.com” and “Future Exploration Network” have together created a map of major trends for 2007 and beyond. The map covers trends for society & culture, government & politics, work & business, media & communications, science & technology, food & drink, medicine & well-being, financial services, retail & leisure, and transport & automotive. More information and the full size map at the…
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