The State of Cloud Computing

Leading data visualization firm JESS3 today released "The State of Cloud Computing," which narrates the history of cloud computing and demonstrates the growing cloud economy in an interactive video. This video helps everyday folks understand that they are actually in the cloud – whether it’s through their online email account, bank account or tending to their Farmville crops while on Facebook.

via www.thestateofcloudcomputing.com
(click above link to see an interactive video)

Build Your Career Tree Today

Your career tree traces the branches of your education and work life, and lets you connect with others who share similar paths. Every addition causes your tree to grow a new branch so the bigger the career, the bigger the tree. And you can share it with Facebook friends and on Twitter! To get started, import your information from LinkedIn or use our form below.

Build Your Career Tree Today

Eg: Barack Obama career tree


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Bounce Rate Demystified

If you are doing business on the web and have Google Analytics setup for your website, it's very likely that you know the bounce rate for your website. But, do you know anything about how it’s calculated, what your industry’s average bounce rate is or even what factors affect your bounce rate? This infographic is meant to give you answers and some tips to help you improve your bounce rate.

via blog.kissmetrics.com

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On The Rise: The Cost of College

Just how expensive? Tuition, fees, room and board at four-year private colleges averaged $36,993 in the 2009-10 academic year, according to the College Board, a not-for-profit association that tracks higher education costs and financial aid annually. Public colleges and universities may be less expensive, but tuition increases surpass those at private schools each year. For more details on the cost of college today, take a look at mint.com's infographic.

via www.mint.com

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BitTorrent visualization in processing.js

BitTorrent visualization in processing.js. Processing.js is an open programming language for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions for the web without using Flash or Java applets. This visualization How file sharing works in BitTorrent?. It was originally started off at aphid.org and now improved/maintained by Jeff Atwood from codinghorror.com.

You can use the 's' and 'p' keys to add new seeds and peers to the swarm. Hitting 'r' will remove one of the seeds or peers at random, but it takes a few seconds before it activates. Works in pretty much any modern browser except IE (because IE doesn't have support for the <canvas> tag).

via mg8.org
(Click above link to see an interactive animation)