The web today is a growing universe of interlinked web pages and web apps, teeming with videos, photos, and interactive content. What the average user doesn’t see is the interplay of web technologies and browsers that makes all this possible.
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This is interesting. The World Map of Useless Stereotypes || Christoph Niemann
(via NYTimes, randomaccessmemory)
via afrographique:
Infographic depicting smart and “dumb” mobile phone numbers on the African continent. Data from Informa Telecoms & Media.
via owenshill
Redesigning the receipt (by BERG Studio)
This graphic by Flowtown illustrates a time line of where bloggers have been and where they are now. Have bloggers evolved to their ultimate state as alternative journalists, public relations portals for businesses, and venues for general time-wasting? Or, are emerging trends such as micro-blogging and live-blogging going to push their way beyond the traditional “weblog” into a higher state of importance?
(Source: techi.com)
Facebook data infrastructure engineering team intern, Paul Butler, has made a beautiful infographic mapping friendships through plotting their coordinates and connections… and what lit up looks a lot like the Earth At Night!
“Hello Monday has designed Copenhagen’s new board game that draws inspiration from classics like Monopoly and Besserwisser. Authenticity is a key concept in the design and brings together historic and contemporary elements to give players a real Copenhagen experience.” —Hello Monday
“The New York Times interactive team has been creating path-breaking experiments in infographics and interaction design. All of which are now collected in its terrific new Innovation Portfolio.
The pieces called out on the site–each of which is represented by a bubble–range from infographics of public sentiment (”What on word describes your mood”) to ultra-polished interactive features, which elegantly summarize massive feature stories.”
