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8bitfuture: Graphic: Global smartphone OS market...

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:38:46 -0400

Graphic: Global smartphone OS market share.

Complied by the Wall Street Journal, this shows how much market share Blackberry and Nokia in particular have lost to Apple and Google in the past year.

Also revealed in the WSJ story is information from an inside source, revealing that development of Android’s “virtual assistant” software has been fast tracked. Codenamed ‘Majel’, the system could be revealed at this week’s Google I/O event, which starts on June 27. Majel has been in development since at least 2011, and has been rumoured to be a more powerful competitor to Apple’s own Siri technology.

futuristgerd: (via Facebook Shares The Most Social Places in...

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:38:40 -0400

futuristgerd:

(via Facebook Shares The Most Social Places in the World)

cnet: Google’s impossibly clever doodle celebrates the 100th...

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:38:36 -0400

cnet:

Google’s impossibly clever doodle celebrates the 100th birthday of Alan Turing

trifunkalicious: Rasmussen College’s infograph on multitasking...

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:38:32 -0400

trifunkalicious:

Rasmussen College’s infograph on multitasking is fantastic.

thisistheverge: Google Maps offline for Android coming...

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 22:16:42 -0400

thisistheverge:

Google Maps offline for Android coming soon

Finally!

nevver: World map of dominating websites

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 22:16:35 -0400

nevver:

World map of dominating websites

cnet: The top 25 most common...

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 22:16:30 -0400

cnet:

The top 25 most common passwords:

password

123456

12345678

1234

qwerty

12345

dragon

pussy

baseball

football

letmein

monkey

696969

abc123

mustang

michael

shadow

master

jennifer

111111

2000

jordan

superman

harley

1234567

Why do you think 1234567 is so much less popular than 123456 and 12345678?

8bitfuture: Infographic: Facebook vs. Google. With all the talk...

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 22:16:23 -0400

8bitfuture:

Infographic: Facebook vs. Google.

With all the talk of Facebook on the stockmarket lately it’s easy to forget they’re still nowhere near as successful (financially at least) as Google.

Google receives approximately 40% more traffic than Facebook every month.

Check out the full infographic here.

thenextweb: (via World Map Of Social Networks Shows Facebook’s...

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 22:16:16 -0400

thenextweb:

(via World Map Of Social Networks Shows Facebook’s Global Dominance)

8bitfuture: Google to unveil their ‘next dimension of...

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 10:51:22 -0400

8bitfuture:

Google to unveil their ‘next dimension of maps’.

The big announcement is due this Wednesday morning, where Google will unveil their next moves for Google Maps, ahead of an anticipated announcement by Apple that they will soon be dropping Google Maps on iOS in favour of their own software. Apple’s offering is likely to use the 3D technology acquired in their purchase of C3 technologies last year - an announcement on that is due at the Apple WWDC on June 11.

At this invitation-only press gathering, Brian McClendon, VP of Google Maps and Google Earth, will give you a behind-the-scenes look at Google Maps and share our vision. We’ll also demo some of the newest technology and provide a sneak peek at upcoming features that will help people get where they want to go – both physically and virtually. We hope to see you there.

bobbycaputo: 50 Quick Photography Tips in Less Than 15...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:54:35 -0400

bobbycaputo:

50 Quick Photography Tips in Less Than 15 Minutes

Kai over at DigitalRev put together this video that offers photography advice in burst mode: 50 (or 49) short and sweet tips in less than 15 minutes. If you take yourself too seriously, be warned: the tips are presented in Kai’s trademark “infotainment” style.

If you’d rather not watch the 13 minute video, here are the tips in text form thanks to Reddit user blufox4900:

UV filters are a waste of time

Lens hoods aren’t a necessity

If you’re not using the hood, put it away

Don’t treat your DSLR like it’s your baby

Stop hating on others

Get cheap lens caps

Pack light

Use a zoom for convenience

Prime will make you think more

The 35mm is the most practical one lens setup (on the 1.5 crop)

The 50mm looks better

Better cameras don’t make better photos

Know how your camera works before you go out to shoot

Always be ready for the shot

P-mode isn’t just for beginners

Bump the ISO if needed

Auto ISO is your best friend

Rely on the Rule of Thirds

Take lots of shots

Don’t take photos of any old sh*t

“If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough” — Robert Capa

Contemplate your shot

The best equipment doesn’t help if you’re not standing in the right spot

Sharpness is overrated

Concept is king

Don’t look like a wrongun (i.e. a creep)

Don’t drink and shoot

Shoot when you’re full of energy

Sometimes it feels great to wake up really early and shoot

Think about what light you want

Emulate the style of the greats to get started

…but don’t keep doing it

Photography is as much a reflection of the person taking the photo

Shoot to please no one apart from yourself

Discreet or direct — it isn’t all that important

Setting themes keeps you focused

Change things every once in a while to keep things fresh

Everyone has creative blocks

Be critical of yourself

“Seeing is not enough, you have to feel what you photograph” — Andre Kertesz

You need to be there with the camera

The relationship is about you and the subject, not you and the camera

Stop chimping

Be brutal when it comes to deleting awful photos

Show only your best work

Changing photos to B&W doesn’t make an uninteresting shot interesting

Look at other people’s work

Post your work online, let others critique your work

There is no easy way

???

(via Petapixel via DigitalRev via Reddit)

cnet: Google: Chrome’s No. 1 (or 2) worldwide StatCounter, Net...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:54:16 -0400

cnet:

Google: Chrome’s No. 1 (or 2) worldwide

StatCounter, Net Applications, pah. The browser market share figures are weighted, inaccurate and vary day by day. Google, with a firm grasp of its own numbers, gives its assessment.

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timemagazine: When we named Mark Zuckerberg TIME’s 2010 Person...

Fri, 18 May 2012 16:32:00 -0400

timemagazine:

When we named Mark Zuckerberg TIME’s 2010 Person of the Year Lev Grossman wrote, “Facebook has merged with the social fabric of American life, and not just American but human life: nearly half of all Americans have a Facebook account, but 70% of Facebook users live outside the U.S. It’s a permanent fact of our global social reality. We have entered the Facebook age, and Mark Zuckerberg is the man who brought us here.”

Lev revisits that cover story and notes what’s changed since then.

Photo

Fri, 18 May 2012 16:31:38 -0400

theatlantic: The Internet at the Dawn of Facebook Facebook...

Fri, 18 May 2012 16:29:50 -0400

theatlantic:

The Internet at the Dawn of Facebook

Facebook launched in 2004. Today, it has more users than the entire Internet had in 2004.

Before Facebook roamed the web, the digital world was dominated by big, bulky websites that assumed they’d stay big and bulky: Microsoft and its Hotmail, Time Warner and its AOL, Ask and its Jeeves. It’s striking how much the Internet has changed since Facebook sprinted onto the scene — and more striking still how Mark Zuckerberg’s production changed the course of that scene.

Back in 2004,

the web had some 50 million sites. (Today, it has more than 600 million.)

the most popular brand on the World Wide Web was Microsoft’s MSN.

Google was the fifth most popular brand on the World Wide Web, ranking below Yahoo and AOL.

people still talked about the “World Wide Web.”

”blog” — defined as “a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments and often hyperlinks” — was chosen as Merriam-Webster’s word of the year.

Read more. [Image: Thefacebook, lol]

Facebook traded more than 100 million shares in its first six minutes on NASDAQ

Fri, 18 May 2012 16:29:39 -0400

Facebook traded more than 100 million shares in its first six minutes on NASDAQ

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