Power of Data Visualization

Marketers are spying on Internet users -- observing and remembering people's clicks, and building and selling detailed dossiers of their activities and interests. The Wall Street Journal's What They Know series documents the new, cutting-edge uses of this Internet-tracking technology. The Journal analyzed the tracking files installed on people's computers by the 50 most popular U.S. websites, plus WSJ.com. The Journal also built an "exposure index" -- to determine the degree to which each site exposes visitors to monitoring -- by studying the tracking technologies they install and the privacy policies that guide their use.

This infographic, which is created by Kristoffer Sandven, author of JoomlaBlogger.net, shows the top 10 features which sets Joomla 1.6 apart from the current 1.5 version.

The Other Guys closing credits animation sequence is that it manages to distill the country’s financial problems down to their most basic form, and delivers them in a creative and entertaining way that, unlike anything you’re likely to see on the news, almost anyone can understand.

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Casino games are anti-charity, donating your money to those far MORE fortunate than yourself.

Web analytics consists of technology and techniques to measure what is happening on a website. It seeks to help improve the site from both a visitor and owner’s perspective.

With the help of  several people on the iCrossing analytics team, this image to show how it all fits together. Let me know what you think!

Curriculum Vitae of Duncan McKean.

A look and reflection at the changes in human communication.

via Mina Liu

Download free Dante's Inferno A Comedy (book) here

VY Canis Majoris is a red hypergiant star located in the constellation Canis Major. At between 1800 and 2100 solar radii (approx 2.7 billion km), it is currently the largest known star in terms of relative size to our own sun (although not in terms of mass).

The size is beyond comprehension.

If you Canis replaced our own star, it would engulf everything up until Saturn.

It's width, as compared here, is just short of all the planets to Uranus.

It's BIG!

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