Month: April 2013

  • Enigma Makes Unearthing And Sifting Through Public Data A Breeze | TechCrunch

    Enigma Makes Unearthing And Sifting Through Public Data A Breeze | TechCrunch There’s a sea of interesting public data out there just waiting to be tapped into, but there’s a problem – most people have no earthly idea how to access it. And even if they’re able to make some headway, there’s still an untold…

  • ibmsocialbiz: Decisions to de-activate Facebook accounts aren’t necessarily permanent. Over half of people who do so return to Facebook. People who permanently delete accounts, on the other hand, generally don’t look back. (via Limiting, Leaving, and (re)Lapsing: An Exploration of Facebook Non-Use Practices and Experiences | Follow the Crowd)

  • thisistheverge: First ever website brought back to life at its original URL The World Wide Web entered the public domain exactly 20 years ago

  • daveortega: Non-Entry for the MBTA “New Perspectives” Map Challenge I love the idea of re-designing Boston’s clunky quasi-decipherable Rapid Transit Map. When I heard that the T was putting together a contest to re-design the map I seized the opportunity. I spent the weekend tweaking Bezier curves and aligning dots (so many damn dots), using…

  • In the last month, the world’s largest social network has lost 6m US visitors, a 4% fall, according to analysis firm SocialBakers. In the UK, 1.4m fewer users checked in last month, a fall of 4.5%. The declines are sustained. In the last six months, Facebook has lost nearly 9m monthly visitors in the US…

  • brucesterling: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nextconference/8674435195/ Dear Tumblr user-base:    Now that I have achieved the impressive tipping-point of 20,000 Tumblr followers, my contractual arrangement with Tumblr GmbH requires me to upgrade my activities here at brucesterling.tumblr.com.      Our new policy is for your own good, because, without clearer IP policies and some monetization, you, the user-base, may…

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  • Emergent Digital Practices: The Art of Walking: a Field Guide

    Emergent Digital Practices: The Art of Walking: a Field Guide emergentdigitalpractices: The Art of Walking: a field guide is the first extensive survey of walking in contemporary art. Combining short texts on the subject with a variety of artists work, The Art of Walking provides a new way of looking at this everyday subject. The…

  • Graphic Arrays by Aram Bartholl. “Graphic Arrays” is about screen resolutions and aspect ratios and how these evolved over the last decades. The left board is dedicated to more recent mobile vertical resolution ending at iPad retina. The right board represents the long history of desktop screen pixel sizes starting with the classic VGA (640×480)…

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