I came across another excellent infographic author recently, freelance designer Jess Bachman. Jess creates complex and often HUGE infographics designed as wall charts, and has recurring annual projects such as mapping the American budget (called ‘Death and Taxes’!), and has even dabbled in video visualisations. Her latest project sees her focus turned towards Google. To [...]
Archive | August, 2010
Microsoft and Facebook Collaboration Secure
It seems recently that the dominance of Google has been too much for some. Over that past year or so we have seen Google consistently loose search volume to competitors (all be it small amounts), and despite the astronomical success of Android, it seems like a slight backlash against ‘everything Google’ is developing especially in [...]
Protesters Lay Siege To Google HQ
A group of ‘net neutrality’ demonstrators laid siege to the Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA last Friday, protesting about the recent Google deal with Verizon. The peaceful protest lasted for an hour or two and involved around 100 people waving ‘Dont Be Evil’ banners, as well as a fair percentage of journalists and other [...]
Google Ventures Invests In iPhone Game Company
The venture capital arm of the search engine giant was reported to have secured another deal recently, to the tune of $3-5m. Ngmoco (standing for Next Gen MObile COmpany) is a another games developer, in the vein of Zynga (Google’s most recent games purchase). They are manufacturers of what is currently the second most popular [...]
2010 Social Network Map
In a tribute to the 2007 ‘Map Of Online Communities’ produced by XKCD (which you can see here), Ethan Bloch has updated the concept for 2010. With a little social commentary alongside such as ‘The Former Kingdom Of Myspace’, and ‘The Sea Of Master Debaters’ it’s informative but a laugh and definitely worth a look [...]
Bing And The Wolf
Microsoft have recently shown their latest hand in the search engine battle, an API integration of Wolfram Alpha into Bing. For those of you who don’t know, Wolfram Alpha defines itself a ‘computational knowledge engine’, which is a rather vague title. Rather than providing lists of web pages that may or may not contain the [...]
Do You Need A Google Alarm?
There has been a lot of talk recently, even from Google themselves, about data. With the resources, myriad products and millions of visitors a day, Google is in a prime position to collect data on nearly all of us, and apparently they do even if you don’t use Google. This data really equates to cash, [...]
Jailbreaking For All
Since the iPhone was launched in early 2007, people have been dissatisfied with Apple’s software restrictions and have set about trying to ‘jailbreak’ them. This is basically a clever way of making your iPhone accept unsigned code by unlocking the OS and allowing root access. Whilst this was the privilege of the techy for several [...]
The End Of Net Neutrality?
A rather worrying story appeared almost simultaneously in The New York Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg and Politico yesterday. The story was of a deal between Google and Verizon (American broadband and telecoms company) to end the ‘neutrality’ of Internet services, and introduce tariffs where you can gain quicker speeds by paying more. We already have [...]
Mozilla Search Box Deal
Google’s main search rival, Microsoft’s Bing, will soon be given another potential chance to gain on Google. Just as with AOL recently, Mozilla’s deal with Google over the search box in the top right hand corner of their browser is to expire next year. This leaves Mozilla in a very strong bargaining position currently, as [...]
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