“Ever since iOS 4 arrived, your device has been storing a long list of locations and time stamps. We’re not sure why Apple is gathering this data, but it’s clearly intentional, as the database is being restored across backups, and even device migrations.” “Although mobile networks already record phones’ locations, it is only available to [...]
The science behind Jimmy's appeal VISIT LINK: Wikipedia: How could such dating site-style ad with a gory close-up possibly work as an appeal for funds? (tags: ads advertising banner campaign data fundraising money marketing JimmyWales internet infographics infographic performance visualization wikipedia datavisualization …)
Apple's stock is at an all time high. How much would you have today if you purchased stock instead of an Apple product? VISIT LINK: Should I have bought Apple stock instead of an Apple product? (tags: apple business calculator comparison computers cool data economics finance fun funny humor ipod interesting lifehack list market mac [...]
RRS is a new storage option within Amazon S3 that enables customers to reduce their costs by storing non-critical, reproducible data at lower levels of redundancy than Amazon S3’s standard storage. It provides a cost-effective, highly available solution for distributing or sharing content that is durably stored elsewhere, or for storing thumbnails, transcoded media, or [...]
Tweets… Just like those replacement buttons you keep in a box at the bottom of your cupboard, just in case you ever need them. VISIT LINK: Ashton Kutcher twitpics of Demi Moore are now important historical information (tags: archive archives blog congress data digital government library libraryofcongress news loc privacy twitter preservation …)
"Facebook's contention was robots.txt had no legal force and they could sue anyone for accessing their site even if they scrupulously obeyed the instructions it contained. The only legal way to access any web site with a crawler was to obtain prior written permission. Obviously this isn't the way the web has worked for the [...]
To write this piece, we cataloged over 7,000 photographs on OkCupid.com, analyzing three primary things (Facial Attitude, Photo Context, Skin). We discovered much of the collective wisdom about profile pictures was wrong. VISIT LINK: The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures (tags: web internet funny social photo online photography culture photos image interesting media pictures [...]
Conversations With An Anonymous Facebook Employee The Rumpus: Do you save everything ever entered into Facebook at any time, whether or not it’s been deleted, untagged, and so forth? Facebook Employee: That is essentially correct at this moment. Rumpus: When you say “click on somebody’s profile,” you mean you save our viewing history? Employee: That’s [...]
The Visual Miscellaneum – Information Is Beautiful The book of David McCandless, a London-based author, writer and designer. "A passion of mine is for visualizing information – facts, data, ideas, subjects, issues, statistics, questions – all with the minimum of words. I’m interested in how designed information can help us understand the world, cut through [...]
Running the Numbers – An American Self-Portrait "Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that [...]
The Billion Dollar Gram Billions spent on this. Billions spent on that. It's all relative right? (tags: design business inspiration graphics image politics interesting graphicdesign statistics map visualization information war money economics data usa crisis economy color iraq dollar infographics graph chart visualisation billion infographic billions …)
Jungle Disk – Online backup and storage powered by Amazon S3 and Rackspace Jungle Disk lets you store files and automatically backup all of your data easily and securely to Rackspace Cloud Files and Amazon S3. (tags: software tools mac internet osx application online macosx windows security linux backup service share hosting storage files amazon [...]
Convert files and data online Data Conversion – Online Media Conversions No need to install anything on your computer. Use the easy upload interface to convert your file. Your original file will not be affected, and you can choose your own file name for the converted file which will instantly download to your computer. (tags: [...]
FRESH - New thinking on what we’re eating FRESH is a call to action; it means to inspire its viewers to positive change, not scare them into a terrified complacency. (tags: video food film entertainment data documentary environment agriculture farming change positive anajoanes …)
Google uncloaks once-secret server Google is tight-lipped about its computing operations, but the company for the first time on Wednesday revealed the hardware at the core of its Internet might at a conference here about the increasingly prominent issue of data center efficiency. Most companies buy servers from the likes of Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, or [...]