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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: Welcome back
It’s been a while since we’ve been around - so welcome back.
We’ve been busy doing a few other things but now there will be more duvet-dayz time reserved for us (and hopefully also for you).
So why not start over with some music?
Something nice and new - check the next post.
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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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Web Design: Color a web site
You can now listen to some of Tracy Chapman’s songs through her new web site with a really innovative (and interactive) design.
Visitors to her site can color all pages with a brush tool and fill the contours of all displayed elements.
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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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Google: A Comix to create interest for a new web browser
To gain further interest and introduce new features of its web browser launched today, Google created a comix book about the browser. On 38 pages the comix describes benefits, key scenarios and advantages of the Google Browser in comparison to existing solutions…
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Security: YouTube Hijacking
It’s an issue of the Internet infrastructure well known since at least the 1990s - data / packets can be rerouted to more or less any IP address via the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP, RFC 4271).
BGP is normally used to announce between routers which networks are reachable by which (preferred) routes. And on the Internet all routers trust each other and there are no mechanisms built into the protocol to assure that the counterpart in a communication “does not lie“.
The issue, as said, is not new and known at least to insiders…
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IT-Terms explained: Cloud computing
In the 10 minutes video below some of the key “figure-heads” of Web 2.0 are being asked to give a short definition of what cloud computing might be.
While some didn’t take the question too serious its quite interesting which benefits others have identified…
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Web: Naked Girls for Captcha solving
While reports that online porn sites offering free access when the visitors enter the right response to a Captcha secured entry field have been around for a while (see for example “BoingBoing 2004″ ) with recent rises in spam originating from Google, Yahoo or Hotmail accounts the discussion on that topic is on again.
Captchas or “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart” that are within these relay attacks defeated by visitors to the…
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