Above is another interesting interactive infographic that illustrates 24 hours of worldwide air traffic. Check out the higher resolution graphic here for much better detail.
This chart not only conveys air traffic, but it is easy to see when it is prime time for travel on each continent. Not only that, it clearly shows where economic development is going on (and where it isn’t). Good data visualization such as this will become requisite in a world that creates 281 exabytes of information annually.
Thanks to kottke.org for the point on the air traffic info.
Posted by on 10/05 at 11:12 PM
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A common tenet of modern Web development is to avoid long, obscure strings of characters in your URLs. So, for example, if your page’s URL looks like this…
The conversion of the former URL into the latter is known as “URL rewriting,” because it converts a long, ugly query string into a short, clean Web address. URL rewriting typically requires a special Web development framework or server module, but it has many advantages.
Amidst the credit-crunch rollercoaster, Toyota is going all out nationally with a 0% financing incentive on 11 models. A spokesperson said they have the inventory and capacity through Toyota’s own financial services division for this huge financing and leasing push.
The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare. So what happens when that same monkey hits keys at random on your new G1 phone from HMK? Android, as it turns out, has the answer…
When it comes to mobile usage, teens ages 13 - 17, let their fingers (thumbs) do the talkin’. Take a look at the chart below and notice the sharp dividing line between age groups in this Nielsen study:
The challenge for marketers is that is a lot of distraction. With an average of about 2000 total text messages and phone calls per month, the answer to when teens are distracted is, “all the time.” It is also an opportunity for marketers and why the consumer is now in control. If many of those messages are about some brand teens like (or dislike), that is a powerful force for creating an exponential communication effect.
Posted by on 10/01 at 06:11 AM
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Amidst the credit-crunch rollercoaster, 
