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Data Visualization: Virtual Worlds
Marketing research company K Zero has published some interesting diagrams on virtual worlds. The first visualizes the virtual worlds by registered accounts and their development since 2003. It also includes some virtual worlds currently in development.
The second diagram shows the involvement of companies and their brands within these virtual worlds.
While the diagrams are very informative we are missing…
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Micro-Blogging: Tumblr documentary
If you’re looking for a different point of view on micro-blogging – here’s a “documentary” on Tumblr. Users are talking about follower, real life meetings, why they are using etc.
Mostly sarcastic but also asking the the right question: Why do you spend so much time on tools like that – or what is it you’re missing from your life…
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Data-Visualization: Tag Clouds with Wordle
There are many tools around to create word clouds from text, tag lists etc.
“Wordle” allows you to copy / paste a text fragment into their user interface or link to a del.icio.us user name to use tags from the saved bookmarks. What differentiates Wordle from other tools are the various features to format the resulting word clouds. You can arrange the text layout in different ways (Horizontal / Vertical / mixed / Free flow), select fonts from a list and apply coloring templates for the display. The results are quite impressive and cover a broad spectrum of popular layouts…
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Firefox Download Worldrecord attempt today
Don’t forget that it is Firefox download day today – Mozilla’s attempt to get into the Guinness Book of record for the most software downloads in 24 hours.
And expect that it might take some time until you’ll be able to download the new version of Firefox (see below)…
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Internet: Malware with 24h support services
So called Trojan and Malware kits have been around since quite some time and most of the people working with or on the Internet should by now have realized that the creation of Malware and spying on computers has developed into a full-fledged industry. And half-hearted security on web sites, corporate and private computers provides their share to the continuously growing size of bot networks together with operating systems that could sometimes best be described with the infamous term “unsafe at any speed”.
We’ve seen the first of these Malware kits in the 1990s – then targeted at so called script kids – but since these years of …
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Video: Linux running 165 applications simultaneously
A few weeks ago stories were going around and people were proudly showing images of a Mac that was running 150 applications at the same time.
Then someone created “a video” showing MS Vista running about a 100 apps with just 30% processor load. The computer used was one bit of a heavy iron, nevertheless still impressive.
Here’s a video of a Linux machine that runs 165 applications simultaneously and is still smoothly cruising
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