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Royal Pingdom » The REAL connection speeds for Internet users across the world (charts)
Royal Pingdom » The REAL connection speeds for Internet users across the world (charts)
How fast are Internet connections across the world? How fast are they in your country? This article examines the real-world connection speeds for people in the top 50 countries on the Internet, i.e. the countries with the most Internet users. This list of countries ranges from China at number 1 with 420 million Internet users, and Denmark at number 50 with 4.75 million Internet users. We’ve included this ranking within parenthesis next to each country in the charts below for those who want to know.
#analytics#data#internet#technology#visualization#hznmc#hz11
·royal.pingdom.com·
Royal Pingdom » The REAL connection speeds for Internet users across the world (charts)
Royal Pingdom » The REAL connection speeds for Internet users across the world (charts)
Royal Pingdom » The REAL connection speeds for Internet users across the world (charts)
How fast are Internet connections across the world? How fast are they in your country? This article examines the real-world connection speeds for people in the top 50 countries on the Internet, i.e. the countries with the most Internet users. This list
#analytics#data#internet#technology#visualization#hznmc#hz11
·royal.pingdom.com·
Royal Pingdom » The REAL connection speeds for Internet users across the world (charts)
Create Compelling Presentations with the Three Q Method
Create Compelling Presentations with the Three Q Method
Save your audience from another dull presentation and increase their focus by building a presentation that answers their questions instead of smothering them with slides. Author Joey Asher explains how to create effective presentations built around real questions.
#presentation#howto
·lifehacker.com·
Create Compelling Presentations with the Three Q Method
Enhanced Narnia E-Book Has Promise, Restrictions | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Enhanced Narnia E-Book Has Promise, Restrictions | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
When will books benefit from the addition of multimedia magic? Narnia may hold the answer. HarperCollins has released an enhanced e-book for C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader in advance of the film adaptation of the same. The book is a perfect test case for the promises and flaws of the enhanced e-book market. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader isn’t an app, but a multimedia EPUB book. EPUB is as close as we have to a universal e-book standard. This immediately makes it multi-platform and multi-device — no need for separate iOS or Android code, or store approval. All you need is an application on those platforms that can read EPUB, and a touchscreen. EPUB books can’t be read on the Kindle, but the Kindle isn’t a multimedia touchscreen device either, so that’s no loss anyways.
#ebooks#hznmc#hz11#hz10
·wired.com·
Enhanced Narnia E-Book Has Promise, Restrictions | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Digital Underclass: What Happens When the Libraries Die? | ZDNet
Digital Underclass: What Happens When the Libraries Die? | ZDNet
Public libraries will need to be replaced with digital equivalents as the publishing industry moves towards eBooks. As a result, will a new “Digital Underclass” be created from the base of technology have-nots? Over the past several years we’ve seen an ever-increasing move towards digital media as the preferred way of distributing books, magazines and newspapers. Whether it’s eBooks, websites or some other form of digitized distribution mechanism, the writing is on the wall for the printed “dead tree” medium. Within 20 years, perhaps even as few as 10, virtually almost all forms of popular consumable written media will be distributed exclusively in an electronic format.
#ebooks#future#library#trends#hznmc#hz11#nmfs_f10
·zdnet.com·
Digital Underclass: What Happens When the Libraries Die? | ZDNet
20 Years Ago, The Web’s Founders Ask for Funding | Webmonkey | Wired.com
20 Years Ago, The Web’s Founders Ask for Funding | Webmonkey | Wired.com
Ever wonder who the first web developers were? Twenty years ago today, when Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby” was at the top of the charts, two engineers at CERN’s data handling division wrote the proposal to fund the research project that would give birth to the web. The proposal, submitted by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau on November 12, 1990, laid out what they wanted to build and the resources they’d require. The team wanted to start by building a browser and a server. They estimated development would take six months, and that it would require “four software engineers and a programmer.” There are also some serious hardware requirements totaling tens of thousands of dollars (or is it Swiss francs?), but about a third of the requested funding was dedicated to software user licenses.
#web#history#nmfs_f10
·webmonkey.com·
20 Years Ago, The Web’s Founders Ask for Funding | Webmonkey | Wired.com
Telling Stories with Data, A VisWeek 2010 Workshop
Telling Stories with Data, A VisWeek 2010 Workshop
Now what if the story involves data? How does visualization support telling a story with data? How do journalists think about data visualization as part of their stories? How can visualization tools help data storytellers construct narratives? At VisWeek 2010 in Salt Lake City, Matt McKeon, Karrie Karahalios, and I organized a workshop to explore this topic of Telling Stories with Data. We were initially motivated by our observation that people often use visualization to share personal perspectives and to tell stories about social situations.
#data#infodesign#infographics#storytelling#visualization#visualthinking#50ways
·flowingdata.com·
Telling Stories with Data, A VisWeek 2010 Workshop
Telling Stories with Data - A VisWeek 2010 Workshop
Telling Stories with Data - A VisWeek 2010 Workshop
While visualization is an excellent tool for discovery and analysis, it is also a powerful medium for communication. The best information graphics do more than just present numbers: they tell a story, engage and convince their readers, invite them to make a personal connection to the data, and help them tell stories of their own. This VisWeek 2010 workshop examined the construction of narratives with visualization. We drew participants with interests in visualization, social media, journalism, and the humanities.
#infographics#storytelling#visualization#hznmc#hz11#50ways#visualthinking
·thevcl.com·
Telling Stories with Data - A VisWeek 2010 Workshop
Open Access Week
Open Access Week
Open Access Week, a global event now entering its fourth year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research. “Open Access” to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need – has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry, and for society as a whole. Open Access (OA) has the potential to maximize research investments, increase the exposure and use of published research, facilitate the ability to conduct research across available literature, and enhance the overall advancement of scholarship.
#education#opencontent#opened#openeducation#hz11#hznmc
·openaccessweek.org·
Open Access Week
HOW TO: Use Bootlance To Install Android OS On Your iPhone 2G/3G Without The Need Of A Computer | FSMdotCOM
HOW TO: Use Bootlance To Install Android OS On Your iPhone 2G/3G Without The Need Of A Computer | FSMdotCOM
Using iPhoDroid, you can install Android OS on your iPhone. But you know that. Over the time, using iPhoDroid got ridiculously easy, but you need a computer to run it. How about installing Android OS directly on your iPhone? No computers, no wires, nothing… Now you can do that, thanks to Bootlace 2.1.
#iphone#android#hack
·funkyspacemonkey.com·
HOW TO: Use Bootlance To Install Android OS On Your iPhone 2G/3G Without The Need Of A Computer | FSMdotCOM
» Augmenting Reality on location
» Augmenting Reality on location
Last academic year, the Skidmore GIS Center began to experiment with augmented reality and mobile devices in order to investigate how these technologies could be applied on campus and in the classroom. This last month the project has successfully passed through the alpha stage, and the GIS Center has published the Skidmore Campus Map using Layar. Layar is an augmented reality platform which allows for a large amount of AR content created by multiple individuals to be served within one application. Using Layar’s API, we were able to add Points of Interest (POIs) around the Skidmore Campus which would then be served to a user by through the Layar application for iPhone or Android devices.
#augmentedreality#hznmc#hz10#hz11#hz10mu
·academics.skidmore.edu·
» Augmenting Reality on location
» Augmenting Reality on location
» Augmenting Reality on location
Last academic year, the Skidmore GIS Center began to experiment with augmented reality and mobile devices in order to investigate how these technologies could be applied on campus and in the classroom. This last month the project has successfully passed t
#augmentedreality#hznmc#hz10#hz11#hz10mu
·academics.skidmore.edu·
» Augmenting Reality on location
How to Make an Events Custom Post Type | WordPress Theming
How to Make an Events Custom Post Type | WordPress Theming
There are several event plugins for WordPress, but all of them seem to work by adding additional tables to the database and setting up a new or complicated user interface. I was working on a project with Bruce Robinson, an orchestra marketer, where we wanted to just display the events using just a simple custom post type. After stumbling down a couple wrong paths, I found a very simple and elegant solution by making the event date mirror the actual post date.
#code#howto#wordpress
·wptheming.com·
How to Make an Events Custom Post Type | WordPress Theming
How to Make an Events Custom Post Type | WordPress Theming
How to Make an Events Custom Post Type | WordPress Theming
There are several event plugins for WordPress, but all of them seem to work by adding additional tables to the database and setting up a new or complicated user interface. I was working on a project with Bruce Robinson, an orchestra marketer, where we wa
#code#howto#wordpress
·wptheming.com·
How to Make an Events Custom Post Type | WordPress Theming
Worldreader.org - Books for All
Worldreader.org - Books for All
Worldreader.org’s mission is to make digital books available to all in the developing world, enabling millions of people to improve their lives. Emerging e-book technology is sharply reducing the cost and complexity of delivering reading material everywhere. We are developing the systems and the partnerships to get e-readers --- and the life-changing, power-creating ideas contained in e-books --- into the hands and minds of people in the developing world, where profit-seeking entities are not focused.
#activism#ebooks#book#literacy#mobiles#mobile#hznmc#hz11#hz10anz
·worldreader.org·
Worldreader.org - Books for All
Universal Subtitles - Free and open tools for creating captions, subtitles, and translations for video.
Universal Subtitles - Free and open tools for creating captions, subtitles, and translations for video.
Reach an international audience, make your videos accessible, and get more traffic by adding viewer-created subtitles to your site. It's free, open source, and built to change the world. You add our widget to your videos. Then you and your viewers can add subtitles, which anyone can watch. We save the subtitles on our site (but you can download them). And each video has its own collaboration space on our site (like a wikipedia article) where people can make improvements, track changes, and give feedback.
#accessibility#crowdsourcing#html5#opensource#translation#video#hznmc#hz11
·universalsubtitles.org·
Universal Subtitles - Free and open tools for creating captions, subtitles, and translations for video.
Playing doctor: Learning about slips of the knife better on 'patients' than patients
Playing doctor: Learning about slips of the knife better on 'patients' than patients
A biomechanics researcher at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, Clanton is demonstrating new software that uses the virtual reality technology employed by video game developers to view human anatomy. Called iMedic, the program creates a 3-D X-ray that allows doctors to examine the body from every angle. This software exemplifies how the video gaming industry has penetrated academia, offering researchers and students a new way to understand techniques that aren't always easy to teach. In pockets around the country, some video game companies are veering away from the entertainment industry to focus solely on creating what they call "serious games."
#medical#hznmc#hz11#gamebasedlearning#educational_games
·washingtonpost.com·
Playing doctor: Learning about slips of the knife better on 'patients' than patients
The economics of gaining attention - O'Reilly Radar
The economics of gaining attention - O'Reilly Radar
We have now a long history of content being written to accommodate the rules of search engines -- particularly Google. We research keywords and then ensure they are placed at the front of our headlines and titles. We reorganize content into staccato bursts of bullet points and subtitles, and so on. Optimization of this kind now dominates all professional content production on the web and shapes our experience as consumers of that content. As our social, economic and political lives are increasingly mediated through a few consolidated technologies such as Facebook and Google, software exerts a profound influence on the way we engage with one another. The natural, sociological secrets of how to gain attention are being codified. In turn, this creates a normative effect on how we behave. We conform to the rules embedded in the code.
#facebook#socialmedia#technology#trends#learninganalytics#analytics#hznmc
·radar.oreilly.com·
The economics of gaining attention - O'Reilly Radar
New Hampshire Downloadable Books
New Hampshire Downloadable Books
Welcome to New Hampshire Downloadable Audiobooks & eBooks! This site is brought to you by 150 NH public libraries. We are happy to announce the addition of eBooks to our collection of WMA and MP3 Audiobooks.
#ebooks#hznmc#hz11#hz10
·nh.lib.overdrive.com·
New Hampshire Downloadable Books