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Top 20 Google Keywords
In: Internet/tech
23 Jul 2011If you care about SEO, this is kind of interesting. Personally, I think it’s a chart of which industries are clearly taking too much money out of our pockets if they can afford to pay that much per click. I’d love to suggest we all click on every insurance ad we see just to stick it to them – but they’d probably just raise our rates to makes up the difference. (via)
The Tech Company Web
In: Internet/tech
22 Jul 2011Interesting chart of how companies, employees, and acquisitions are all intertwined in the tech industry. Pay attention to which way the arrows are pointing (they look just like lines at first).
(via)
God and Other Internet Searches
In: Culture Internet/tech
27 Jun 2011Believe it or not, when I title my posts, I do occasionally try to show mercy to my readers who are already skittish about browsing “chartporn.org” from work. This is one of those times. You’re welcome.
I like that they normalized the results to account for volume.
Storage vs Bandwidth (1986-2012)
In: Internet/tech
23 Jun 2011Interesting history of falling hard drive price and internet bandwidth costs. It is the bottoming out of these graphs that is making cloud computing possible. Thanks to David V. for the link!
Awesome Website Flowchart
In: Humor Internet/tech
13 Jun 2011Do you have an excellent idea for a website? This flowchart will tell you whether you have everything you need to make it a reality. (posted by digital talent agency Vitamin T – which explains all the web developer brown nosing – hehe.)
How to Respond to Blog Posts
In: Internet/tech
18 May 2011A well thought out flowchart from the US Air Force on communication strategies for responding to blog posts and comments.
Pharmaceutical company Pfizer adapted the Air Force’s version for their own use:
Either of which are preferable to the the instinctual response:
Falling Flatscreen Costs
In: Internet/tech Science
11 May 2011
Bin Laden’s Death Causes Record Tweets
In: Culture Internet/tech
3 May 2011Over 5000 per second. (via)
Less depressing, the same flickr feed also has cool video of tweets per second on New Year’s Eve 2010 – you can watch midnight travel around the globe.
Gartner’s Magic Magic Quadrant
In: Humor Internet/tech
1 Apr 2011Gartner regularly maps out technology markets’ competitiveness – with one quadrant on their chart being “magic”. Well, this time they’ve mapped out Magicians. Thanks to Linda Smith for the link!
Groupon Revenue Deal by Deal
18 Mar 2011$480 million of revenue. Each box is a Groupon deal. The colors identify the city. Width (price) times height (number sold) equals area (revenue). Roll over any deal to see what it was for — lots of weird stuff in there.
What People are Liking on Facebook
In: Culture Internet/tech
11 Mar 2011Yahoo labs examined over 40 million likes on 45 different news/blog sites to see what people are interested in. The most popular article: “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior”; “New Zodiac Signs” was #2. Yes, this means our civilization is doomed, but in the meantime there are some interesting findings about articles’ social popularity and lifespans, and recommendations for more efficient social marketing (barf). Below are word clouds for the New York Times and Engadget – colors indicate how many likes the word received, size indicates how many articles the word appeared in. They have similar clouds for 27 different sites. (via Data Pointed)
Chart of average article social lifespans:
Egypt Twitter Network
16 Feb 2011A detailed network diagram of twitter connections related to the pro-democracy movement, though it’s not made clear what inclusion criteria were used.
Facebook Comment Flowchart
4 Feb 2011
Profane Twitter
In: Culture Internet/tech Maps
23 Jan 2011Daniel Huffman filtered 1.5 million tweets from March and April 2010 and mapped the rate of profanity across America. (via; note: the link below is to a 12mb pdf file)
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