October 2011
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November 2010
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20 Things Learned
Google created a resume of the 20 things “they” learned about browsers.
It’s kind of fun to browse through it and check the illustrations created by Christoph Niemann
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All this Data
Did you ever think about the amount of data we are creating and assembling in digital age?
The Economist did it in an interesting report
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Analyse Twitter
a different view on twitter accounts tweetpivot
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Time Zones
Are you also experiencing this? Setting up a meeting didn’t work as you forgot to check his or her time zone?
Some tools to help out:
Current Time Around the World - a quick overview of the time zones via a map that lays out every region. It’ll also show the zones considering daylight saving time.
Time Zones - takes your time and shows you the related time zones
World Clock -...
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Design Principles
Photo Credit: Michael Maggs
As a member of the A-List Blogging Club I get the opportunity to discover numerous blogs and see their evolution. It’s a great way to open the mind to tons of information and fun things.
One of the nice blogs I discovered is Positively Beauty written by Cristina Colli. She has been doing a great job so far to build up a good...
October 2010
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Presentation Skills: Gates vs Jobs →
great presentations seem to be so easy to do - and well it’s the secret - the easier they seem to be the better they usually are. The only drawback it’s much more work and training to do, but creating a successful communication is the reason you do the presentation. Aim at being successful.
But how do we achieve that?
Garr Reynolds has a good overview on the evolution of the...
September 2010
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Visualising the Web
BBC News has an interesting collection of data to visualise the web.
The visualisation of the top 100 sites by country is something in between shocking (there is one country dominating the graph) and funny (a really small country, where I happen to live, shows up in it).
To see more of it head over to SuperPower: Visualising the internet
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Neutrality or Equality
The discussion about net neutrality has been ongoing for quite some time and is quite active again.
The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) has ongoing discussion with ISPs over it, probably one of the reasons why Google and Verizon came out with a proposal distinguishing between wireless and wired internet access.
Just wondering if Google had already planed it like that in 2006 but back...
August 2010
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Map the World
Maps have always been intriguing to me, at least in the sense that they raise my curiosity and are fun to study. A map of a country for example will let you think of everything that country represents, you’ll figure out how it is structured, some details of its history, where to go to and maybe you’ll be reminded of the places you’ll already went to.
A map thus also is simply a...
July 2010
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How Google Works
Ever wondered what happens before a user queries Google and what happens after that?
Infographic by PPC Blog
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Colours in Culture
Sometimes you will associate a colour to a feeling, environment, situation, etc. The graphic below will tell you if other cultures use the same colour as you do.
Red is quite unanimously used for passion (62) whereas choices are quite diverse for respect (72).
via InformationIsBeautiful and DataViz
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Facebook Economy
If you are not using Facebook regularly you’ll certainly be impressed by these figures. And if you are regularly in Facebook you’ll still be astonished
via DataViz
Philanthropy - The Challenge
It is via Steve’s “Rethink Philanthropy” that I found out more details about The Giving Pledge.
Bill and Melinda Gates together with Warren Buffet came up with the idea to ask billionaires to commit to giving at least half their fortune.
The pleasure of doing something good and giving shows quite well:
Apart from the general idea what I really like about this is the...
View a piece of history
PrintCollection provides a vast variety of interesting prints, before buying them in order “to own a piece of history” browse through the site “to view a piece of history”. On their website you also have a nice possibility to study the prints in all their details.
One of the classics in the collection is the FlatIron Building in New York
You’ll also find a...
June 2010
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The Rabbit Challenge
Some day Alexandra and Vladimir started their rabbit project. Alexandra is going to paint. Vladimir is defining the style and providing all the details on the blog.
The rules are as follows:
1. Each painting should contain a white rabbit 2. Each painting should resemble a style of a famous painter 3. At least one painting should be produced every two weeks
Amongst others, Vladimir selected...
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The Kit for Your Empire
As usual Chris Guillebeau follows his habit of non-conformity and provides not only unconventional strategies but also big visions.
After two successful one day launches and tests of his Empire Building kit, Chris is now going to launch it again and keep it available for the future. The Empire Building Kit is his flagship product to help aspiring emperors build a business in one year by doing one...
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Facebook Privacy
Facebook has grown at a phenomenal level over the past 18 months, from 150 million to 400 million active users globally, over 50% of whom logged into Facebook in any given day. Along the way concern about privacy has grown - probably in a disproportional manner compared to the usage.
Some of this displays as has been highlighted by the New York Times through a simple word count, Facebook’s...
May 2010
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WatchRösti (German pronunciation: [ˈʁøːʃti]; often spelled Röschti in Swiss German) is a Swiss dish consisting mainly of potatoes. It was originally a common breakfast eaten by farmers in the canton of Bern, but today is eaten all over Switzerland and also in many restaurants in the Western World. Many Swiss people consider rösti a national dish. (more over on Wikipedia)
via swiss-miss and HowdyHeidi
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Entrepreneurship
Becoming, being and remaining an entrepreneur has a different impact depending on your country.
via DataViz and grashopper
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The New Web Trend Map Brought to Us by iA
a lot of it has already been seen on the web, I found it via swissmiss and later on Mashable, but as iA points out - there have been others talking about this new map.
Apart from the simple fact, that it looks nice - the information in the map is interesting as such. Two of the later comers to twitter are even so meanwhile quite present on the map: the Dalai Lama and Bill Gates, both of which...
Fill a maximum into it
Ever wondered how to pack your carry on bag with enough closing for 10 days? Think it’s impossible? You might want to test the following tips how to pack for 10 Days In a Carry-On from the NY Times.
via Geek in Disguise
Potential
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” Albert Einstein
source blueverticalstudio.com
April 2010
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Following the "Guide Du Voyageur du Congo Belge"
Carl de Keyzer a Belgian photographer decided to tour the Democratic Republic of Congo visiting the locations presented in a touristic guide published in 1954 (“Guide Du Voyageur du Congo Belge”)
This picture had to be on display here :
© Carl De Keyzer, UMHK (Union minière du Haut Katanga), centre récréatif, Kolwezi 2009
see more pictures via Magnum
via we make money not...
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Google Labs: Public Data Explorer
an interesting way to investigate and display date .. you just have to trust the statistics you created …
and another quick data mix: co2, agricultural land & population growth - don’t forget to press the play button .. makes it somehow fun.
via Google Public Data Explorer
minimum wages
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10 ways to take stunning portraits →
cool ideas
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Are these "strangest" buildings?
ok, in this case one might discuss the book titles..
this does look like a great design within a great location
and this one is in my home town, built for the Expo ‘58 I still like it. It’s good that it still seems strange to a lot of people!
via boredpanda, pictures from strangebuildings
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basic maths →
find out some basic maths about internet sales.
10 Billion Tweets ...
how did they figure out the number of tweets being pointless babble ?
via Geek In Disguise - original post on mashable
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A Look at Nintendo
via onlinemba
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nothing to add … via letterheady, few apart from Elvis mention less
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The Game of Hell
via neatorama. Don’t miss the playable version mentioned there (via b3ta)
Taste 2 Tasty
a fun version of a fruit guide, even if it’s a more personal version I would say. Always funny to find a tomato in there.
Evolution in type taste can be like this
typography likes change along the way. In this case it was Jessica Hische
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Art History - Who owns?
thanks to swiss miss
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Letterpress Dice Prints - Stukenborg
Stukenborg, a Brooklyn-based artist, is using dice to create geometric-pattern prints. I find them quite impressive - just as the idea! On the bed of the letterpress the dices are assorted - its like a puzzle - before being colored by rolling ink on them. At this moment they are ready for an impression which makes quite an impression.
March 2010
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February 2010
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The Miracle of Kindness
The miracle of kindness isn’t only a virtual Zen retreat
Breath in – cherish yourself
Breath out – cherish all beings
Try it, you’ll be astonished even if it takes some time
iPad - settling
Prior to it’s appearance the iPad created a huge discussion “the one and only tablet device” (by the way I’m not using PC on purpose) in the mean time things have settled and the discussion reaches becomes really interesting. The value and especially the future of Tablets is being discussed in a constructive manner and specific applications are requested (as Seth Godin who...
Preparing and Growing your Blog?
For once I share some experience in order to do some promotion (if you wonder: yes I’m using affiliated links here)
Last year I started looking into blogging, I started reading all I could investigating the different “How To” existing all around. During this research I found Zen Habits a blog by Leo Babauta who has grown his audience by 50.000 people since I started reading it...
play well ~ Danish Toy Story ~ I put together →
Not sure we are at a happy ending yet as there are always ups and down but anyhow, I’m happy that Lego is still around. There are some remarkable elements in the attached articled and I definitely like the “Moments of Truth” as indicated by Lego’s CEO Jorgen Vig Knudstorp:
1. When it’s advertised, does it make a child say ‘I want this’?
2. Once he...
January 2010
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Watchyou have a wonderful opinion - ever thought that it might be the other way round ?
If you want to change people, you must create...
Change
“you are ready to change when the pain of remaining as you are is greater than the pain of change” read on here: What You Need to Know Before Starting a New Habit
Resistance
“The resistance is that little voice in the back of your head, the one that tells you that it will never work, the one that insists you check your email one last time, the one that worries that...