Internet/tech Archive:
Web Icons
In: Internet/tech
15 Sep 2010You know those little icons that appear next to your bookmarks? Well, someone threw all those little 80×80 ico files together, resizing them by popularity. You can search for your site and zoom in. (via Flowing Data)
Undersea Cable Map
19 Aug 2010The information isn’t terribly interesting, but this interactive Bing-based map of undersea communications cables is a nice example of what can be done with public data and a little hard work. (Thanks to mapgirl for the link!)
Google’s Widening Reach (1998-2010)
11 Aug 2010Interactive timeline of information collected by Google and how it is being used.
Foursquare Visualization
10 Aug 2010I haven’t gotten the Foursquare bug yet, but some of you may be interested in this map-based visualization of you and your friends. (The authors’ blog).
History of Communication
10 Aug 2010This infographic is intriguing because the most interesting part: the graph of call costs is hidden behind the jumble of labels – I didn’t even notice it until Ben Edmonds pointed it out. For the heck of it, I’ve also linked to other communication timelines.
2010 Social Networking Map
In: Internet/tech Maps
9 Aug 2010An update of xkcd’s 2007 map, this one by Flowtown. It’s interesting to see what they consider to be “social networking” (besides facebook and twitter).
Tweet Mood Ring Maps
In: Culture Internet/tech Maps
23 Jul 2010Researchers analyzed the words of 300 million tweets for “happiness” content and plotted the changes over time. The findings are kind of cool, but this would have looked a lot better with non-contiguous cartograms.
Apple vs Google vs Microsoft
12 Jul 2010Numbers and products – keep clicking, the drill-down goes down quite far.
Flowchart: Should you Get the New [x]?
16 Jun 2010Highly accurate. (via)
Sparklines in Twitter
9 Jun 2010An excel tool to create unicode sparklines.
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