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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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Data-Visualization: The world according to newspapers

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We always knew that the press and journalists are selective with what story makes it to the cover pages or even receives a few paragraphs to be mentioned. But nobody has visualized this so far and shown how unbalanced some newspapers are regarding world news.

The two heatmaps below show news coverage by geographical region from the Daily Mail and The Economist during 2007. They are part of a series of heatmaps created within a project by French journalists Nicolas Kayser-Bril and Gilles Bruno. The two are planning to…

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Design: Rafael Rozendaal’s web sites

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The subjects of Rafael Rozendaal’s web sites range from clouds to blood, from hands to farts, from hills to dollars, from doors to fire. They are interactive, some are like pieces of pop art, others a bit absurd.

His latest creation “colorflip.com” got quite some popularity on various forums the last days and…

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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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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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Data visualization: Social networks around the world

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With new data on Facebook making the headlines yesterday telling us that their user numbers are leveling out in the US and the UK, we remembered that we recently have seen a great info-graphic showing the use of social networks with the most popular providers per country around the world in the French Newspaper “Le Monde”

The data used in the graphic is from August 2007 but it’s interesting to see the popularity of providers in different countries. There are a few white spots on the map, some…

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Design: Web site and visual design by girls and women

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These web sites have no girlie design - these web sites are made by girls and women and their design rocks

The “list” was put together by Pedro Reis a visual and web designer himself. …

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Games: Real World Racer

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There are no red traffic lights stopping you on your race through cities around the world with “Real World Racer”

Nice little online game that allows you to race your small little red car against a group of opponents on Google Maps / Satellite images…

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