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Related: Human ExplorationsMeet the Man Behind the Map: Washington, D.C.'s and Baltimore's Historical Trains, Subway-Style - Curbed Interviews The remnants of abandoned train lines are still visible to this day, often drawing curiosity from what David Edmondson calls "legacy train nerds." As a railway enthusiast, himself, Edmondson became tired of not knowing where these train lines were or how they connected, deciding to take it into his own hands to map each line in a colorful subway-style map. He describes his maps as "quasi-geographical train service diagram[s]" that are able to show the rails and also the service of each train.
Which Department Owns Social Media? In the past, it was easy for businesses or brands to segment different types of outreach or communication into departments. Marketing and public relations often operated separately from one another; human resources, customer service and technical support all operated in their own distinct branches. While overlap did occur, for the most part, actions and activities adhered to a set organizational structure. But how do you classify social media? Because it can be used in so many different ways, social media fits into many traditional departmental hierarchies.
July 18, 1992: The First Photo Uploaded to the Web, of CERN’s Parody All-Girl Science Band by Maria Popova Love and science set to song, from quarks to colliders. In 1990, shortly before a CERN physicist subverted gender and science stereotypes by adapting Alice in Wonderland as an allegory in quantum mechanics, a different type of delightful subversion was afoot at the famed European Organization for Nuclear Research, now home to the Large Hadron Collider: Michele Muller, a former British model and actor working as a 3D graphic designer for a virtual reality project at CERN, was dating CERN computer scientist Silvano de Gennaro and found herself frustrated with her boyfriend’s seemingly unending shifts.
Twitter's International Growth: Becoming the World's Water Coole Not to be outdone by Facebook's impressive global growth trend, Twitter's just revealed some statistics about how many people Tweet around the third rock from the sun. Get this: More than 60% of Tweeps aren't American. Matt Sanford, Twitter's head honcho engineer on its International Team, presents the stats (mainly in the form of that graph shown above) on the company's blog. He notes that the first Tweeps were employees in the company's San Francisco offices in 2006--naturally--but that since then Twitter's grown very rapidly into a "global information network." By its very nature, Twitter spreads like a virus, without regard for national boundaries.
Mobile Apps to Hit $32 Billion in Five Years Juniper Research asserts, in a study published today, that revenue from mobile applications will grow $22 billion in the next five years. "The combined revenues from apps funded by pay-per-download (PPD), value-added services (VAS, including freemium and subscription) and advertising is expected to rise from just under $10 billion in 2009 to $32 billion in 2015." Apple, the most high-profile purveyor of mobile apps, has said it has seen 4 billion apps downloaded from its store, for a total of about $1.5 billion. For Juniper's estimates to bear out, other providers will have to come pretty strongly to the fore. This is especially true if the company's estimate that 85% of apps downloaded are free. An additional issue is the relatively constrained area where smart phones are used with any frequency - industrialized countries.
The Definitive List of Twitter Tools Welcome to the Definitive List of Twitter Tools. I compiled this list while I wrote my Twitter Tools Book, and I continue to add to it as new tools are created. This is a living list, so if you are aware of any new Twitter Tools that are not yet on the list, or if you notice that some of the tools on this list are no longer live, leave a comment below and let me know! Enjoy the Twitter Tools!
Five Technologies to Make Sure Your Data Lives Forever They say that on the Internet, nothing ever goes away. This is true, for popular content that’s endlessly shared and remixed. But this kind of viral candy is only the tip of a really big iceberg. Beneath the surface of memes and naked celebrities lurks endless petabytes of data too boring for immortality. Wedding pictures, college essays, home videos, old emails — most of our data is in this category, and it can be disturbingly ephemeral. One of the major lessons from physics is that thermodynamics hates your guts.
5 Social Media Pitfalls to Avoid Social media is now an active reality for marketers. No longer something to consider as an option, marketers are rapidly increasing their budgets in this space and trying to leverage social media to best connect with consumers. Many marketers believe social media is a low risk, high reward channel.
The State of Mobile Apps “There’s an app for that” is Apple’s catch phrase to promote the literally thousands of applications that can be downloaded to an iPhone. Whether you want to check the weather or traffic, bide time playing a game, or study a new language, there is likely a free or paid application that you can access. While Apple may be best known for mobile apps, BlackBerry, Android and other devices also have a huge range of apps available in their stores, as well as in those operated by mobile service providers. Social network analysis software Social network analysis software (SNA software) is software which facilitates quantitative or qualitative analysis of social networks, by describing features of a network either through numerical or visual representation. Overview[edit] Some SNA software can perform predictive analysis.[5] This includes using network phenomena such as a tie to predict individual level outcomes (often called peer influence or contagion modeling), using individual-level phenomena to predict network outcomes such as the formation of a tie/edge (often called homophily models[6]) or particular type of triad, or using network phenomena to predict other network phenomena, such as using a triad formation at time 0 to predict tie formation at time 1. Network analysis software generally consists of either packages based on graphical user interfaces (GUIs), or packages built for scripting/programming languages. GUI packages are easier to learn, while scripting tools are more powerful and extensible.
What The Internet Thinks About - Interactive Infographic What if you saw the Internet’s most-read stories all at once? You would see a picture of what the Internet thinks about – this (click on each story). How do we know all this? The data comes from the largest index of links on the Internet (after Google) by Ahrefs. What Does the Internet Say About Us? If the Internet is the largest collection of information, it likely reflects what matters to us, humans, the most.