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List of Lists: The 25 most valuable Blog properties

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You might say – yet another list of top blogs. It is but it’s quite well done and based on potential advertising value and not only on number of hits per months.

While the author admits that it’s actually not possible to value the largest blogs appropriately, he nevertheless comes up with an interesting valuing approach – the amount a buyer might be willing to pay.

Only privately held blogs that are…

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Turn your web site into a graph

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This great applet will turn your web site into a graph. You just need to enter an URL and the screens shows how the graph is dynamically build step by step.

The tool was created with…

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From our does it blend department : Is Digg.com going down tonight?

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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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Humor: The 10.5 most stupidest captchas on the web

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Captchas have been around now for a few years but still some web sites use them more as a Darwin award then a Turing test.

For them it seems that captchas help to keep traffic from annoying passers-by at a minimum.

Here is our collection of the funniest, most unusual or plain unusable captchas – 10.5 ways to assure that (“almost”) nobody will be able to access your web site….

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Data-Visualization: Country Codes of the World

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Currently more than 260 top level domains are in use on the Internet. While the .com domain still remains the most popular, many country domains are now widely used as well.

On the map below each country is represented…

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Video: Twitter in Plain English

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You might have seen some of Commoncraft’s paperwork in the past like for example “RSS in Plain English”, “Wikis” or “Blogs” in Plain English or “Social Bookmarking” explained in the same way.

Now they have added another animation to their series of basic explanatory videos called…

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