Hans Rosling’s 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes
Bringing statistics alive through visualisation. An awesome display using statistics to explore the differences of health and wealth in the world.
Twitter celebrates its 5th anniversary with a new video
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Amazon Android App Store Revealed
URL: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/03/amazon-android-a…Amazon’s Android App Store, which was announced back in September, will be an alternative to Google’s own App Store, and is reported to be curated more like Apple’s App Store: Amazon w…
Founder of Digg resigns
Kevin Rose, founder of the Digg social media website has resigned. Confirmation if any were needed of the fickle nature of social web users. However, user loyalty was sorely tested by the radical new design of the site which appeared to have been …
Google going in Circles?
More intrigue about Google’s supposedly new social networking service “Circles”. There was previous speculation that they were working on a ‘Facebook killer’ social networking service called “Google Me”. The same thing? I would imagine they’ll wan…
The Seven Principles of Knowledge Management
What would we do without serendipity? I was looking for something else on the internet just now and (re)stumbled across this from Dave Snowden. It’s from a blog he produced in 2008, but as relevant today as it was then. Worth sharing I thought. Kn…
Clay Shirky on managing net generation workers
Clay Shirky, author and professor of new media at New York University discussese the unique challeng of managing millenial employees. Note: the “net generation” is the demographice cohort following generation X, with birth dates ragning from early…
A gentle introduction to Twitter
A gentle introduction to Twitter. Thanks to @carlhaggerty for spotting this, and to @nancywhite for a great double act! Nancy & Suzy_INTRO TO TWITTER from CommunityMatters on Vimeo.
Mozilla launches ‘open’ app store.
Web applications are simply Web sites with an accompanying configuration file. This file contains extra information necessary to install the Web app, which in some instances may make it available when there’s no network connection. Google’s We…