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Quintura - visual search engine In the vast digital landscape of the internet, search engines play a pivotal role in helping us find the information we seek. While major search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo dominate the market, there are several innovative alternatives that offer unique features and capabilities, including visual context-based image search. In this article, we'll explore 15 of the best alternative search engines, with a primary focus on those that offer image search capabilities akin to Quintura, taking a step beyond traditional keyword search. While popular search engines continue to dominate the digital landscape, these 15 alternative search engines offer unique features, with a special emphasis on visual context-based image search similar to Quintura. ⚫ Manchester hotels ⚫ Liverpool hotels ⚫ Bournemouth hotels ⚫ Cambridge hotels ⚫ Blackpool hotels ⚫ Cardiff hotels ⚫ Bristol hotels ⚫ Oxford hotels ⚫ Nottingham hotels ⚫ Edinburgh hotels ⚫ Brighton hotels ⚫ Glasgow hotels ⚫ Birmingham hotels ⚫ Leeds hotels

10 Awesome Twitter Analytics and Visualization Tools Recently Twitter rolled out their native analytics platform for all users and now you can get some quality data about your tweets directly from Twitter. After researching over a thousand Twitter Tools for the Twitter Tools Book I came across many Twitter analytics and visualization tools. These Twitter tools were designed to add value by presenting a different way to visualize or analyze your tweets, the people in your network, and the tweets from the people in your network. Many tools tried to add value and failed. The following tools, however, stand out in my mind as exceptional or entertaining and I recommend you check them out if you want to analyze and visualize your activity on Twitter. 1. TweepsMap is an excellent Twitter tool for both analyzing and visualizing your Twitter network. As it’s name suggests it does this by showing you how your followers are distributed on a map, in terms of percentages. You can see the distribution of my followers below. Intelligent publishing. Unique.

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Affaire DSK: en exclusivité, visitez la chambre 2806 «Dring». Lundi après midi, nous sonnons à la porte de la suite 2806 de l'hôtel Sofitel de Manhattan. Après un long moment, l'actuel résident des lieux nous ouvre. Nous lui indiquons que nous sommes journalistes et que la suite de luxe où il réside est devenu un lieu qui suscite une curiosité légitime chez le public français. Il nous invite alors à visiter en estimant que «c'est une question de droit à l'information». C'est là que le samedi 14 mai entre 12 heures et 12h28, Dominique Strauss-Kahn 62 ans, favori à la présidentielle de 2012 et patron du FMI, a été accusé d'agression sexuelle et de tentative de viol par une femme de chambre de l'hôtel, âgée de 32 ans. Une disposition des lieux compatible avec le récit de la victime présumée Depuis les faits, la presse américaine a tenté de reconstituer le plan de la suite 2806 -sans succès- mais aucune image n'a été diffusée de cette «crime scene» qui suscite un grand nombre de fantasmes et d'interrogations. A nos lecteurs Liberation.fr

12 Greatest Apocalyptic Novels Of All Time After scouring book reviews and Wikipedia, a list of the Top 12 Best Apocalyptic Novels was born. The books on this list take you down the darkest paths in uncivilized worlds, from cannibalistic gangs to vampire infected corpses. If this list doesn't get you thinking on the quickest way stock your basement full of water, canned goods and rifles, I don't know what will! Enjoy! World War Z Documenting the war on zombies, "World War Z" takes you through horific times with some of the most vivid writing this genre has ever seen. "World War Z" paints such a realistic picture of a world after Zombies that even skeptics would find themselves engrossed in the novel! Blindness Forget world wide pandemics of flesh eating bacteria or a zombie illness! The family unit escapes and attempts to build a new life in the outside world, just as sight is returned, just as quickly as it was taken away. I don't know who I felt worse for reading this book. The Road The Postman Oryx and Crake A Canticle for Leibowitz

Social Visualization Software Review: IBM Many Eyes As we announced a few months ago, we will be starting a new feature aimed at reviewing visualization tools. This ongoing feature will hopefully shed light on these tools and if they might fit into your workflow. In the meantime, please feel free to give your opinion on this new reviewing feature in the comments section below. Should we change any of the criteria? We are continuing the three-part series of online visualization tools. We chose the evaluation criteria based on user comments from our previous posts. Many Eyes was an early entrant into the online dataviz arena. Public visualizations at Many Eyes (click to enlarge). Treemap and live data editing (click to enlarge). Next week, we will review Tableau Public. Patrick Keenan is a founding parter at The Movement as design studio focused on amplifying social value work.

Ever wonder what happens on the Internet every minute? | MSN .. Do you know what goes on the Internet every single minute? Google processes 2 million search requests. 72 hours of videos are uploaded on YouTube. And over 204 million emails are sent. This happens every minute. Did you know How to Promote Your Business Blog with Social Media Follow these tips to harness the full promotional power of the social web. You may be writing a blog to boost your business's brand, but what if no one reads it? Building an audience from scratch for your blog doesn't always happen overnight. Fortunately, several opportunities are available through social media to help spread the word. Doing so will require more than creating a profile on popular sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn, especially if you want to use social networking to increase awareness of your business and traffic to your business blog. Here are tips for how to harness the full promotional power of social networking to increase your blog's profile: Create a relevant profile. Find people with whom to connect. Related: Build Buzz With a Business Blog You can also search for existing groups that are related to your blog's topic. Be active and publish useful content. Related: Five Reasons Why You Shouldn't Abandon Your Blog for Facebook Leverage site-specific features.

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Gephi, graph exploration and manipulation software PEER 1 Hosting Launches Map of the Internet App Wednesday, March 6, 2013 - 04:00 While curiosity around the Internet has loomed since its inception, no one has been able to explain what the Internet physically looks like. Today, I’m excited to share that we have officially launched our Map of the Internet app, which provides a stunning 3D visualization of the Internet and all of its autonomous systems worldwide, as well as how they are connected. In 2011, we took the first step in developing this visualization with the debut of our Map of the Internet infographic poster. UPDATE: CNNMoney has posted a video review and demonstration of the app here. Users can view Internet service providers (ISPs), Internet exchange points, universities and other organizations through two view options – Globe and Network. Credits It takes a lot of talented people to pull a project like this together. Concept and Design – Rajan Sodhi, Kyle Dickau, Victor Swarovski, Ramon Vawda, and Skyler Richter. Computational Data Visualization – Jeff Johnston Rajan Sodhi