Given the recent closing of Google Wave and Eric Schmidt's celebration of their failures; take a look at some of Google’s other flops and failures that were pretty much DOA.
via www.wordstream.com
This infographic takes you through the not-so-erotic journey that has led to the development of this robotic companion with its artificial-intelligence-based personality and flesh-like synthetic skin.
via coedmagazine.com
Oh, it’s only a cup of coffee. Just this one album. You probably find that you can easily justify most small purchases by telling yourself that it’s just this once or the item is low cost. But lots of low cost items over time can add up into some fast and furious debt. Imagine if every time you reached into your wallet to splurge, you put that money aside instead.
via blog.perkstreet.com
More than 1 Million people used our Themeleon tool to design their Twitter Profile in the past 3 months, which allows us to paint a picture of the world connecting colors to locations and profile data. What colourlovers.com noticed first was that a huge majority of people don't wander that far off from Twitter's default light blue colors... and then theye went digging deeper.
They took the colors from 100,000 profiles designed with Themeleon and geolocated them to the designers location. Although it is a little dark in this compressed video... Each location has a spectrum strip of colors... the more colors from a certain area, the taller the strip. (The US is well defined, Europe and East Asia... although you can see some outlines of other countries too.)via static.colourlovers.com
The Infographic above gives a breakdown of Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) salaries by state and is color coded with the darkest green states having the highest CNA salary available.
via www.bestcnatrainingschools.com
Map from the 2009 Human Development Report, which uses HDI, the Human Development Index, as a measure of the general level of development for jurisdictions on both sides of the US-Mexico borderWhat is interesting is that the lowest [Human Development Index (HDI)] county on the US side (Starr County Texas) is higher than the highest HDI municipality in Mexico (i.e., Mexicali). via andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com map from the 2009 Human Development Report.
Bankruptcy filings rose 20% in the year to June 30th compared with the previous 12-month period, according to statistics released on August 17th by the Administrative Office of the US Courts.
via www.economist.com
it's interesting to see how far we've come since the days of Mosaic for web browsing and even the birth of such big internet monoliths as eBay. Now we have Twitter and Facebook. What's your take on what we should expect as the next "big idea?"
via www.onlinemba.com