Gabe Aldridge
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20 Billionth tweet happens in Japan at 12:44 am, 08.01.10.
Here are some other Twitter figures to celebrate the 20 billionth tweet: * Twitter now has 105,779,710 registered users. * New users are signing up at the rate of 300,000 per day. * 180 million unique visitors come to the site every month. * 75% of Twitter traffic comes from outside Twitter.com (via third party applications.) * Twitter gets a total of 3 billion requests a day via its API. * Twitter users are, in total, tweeting an average of 55 million tweets a day. * Twitter’s search engine receives aroun...
Facebook Sharing: Sex Most Popular Subject
I came across an interesting little tidbit this morning. According to the "social media scientist," Dan Zarrella, "Articles... that include sexual references in their titles are shared on Facebook far more than the average story" (consult the graph below for impact). Is it possible that the American public is generally less prudish nowadays, at least when it comes to the internet? Intrigued by the implications, I poked around a bit more and found an extensive study done a few years ago by ABC. It revealed some ...
Do you Know the Difference Between Disc and Disk?
Most people think that both of these words are two equally valid spellings for the same object. Not so! In this month's Macworld, Dan Moren enlightens us with the truth. Disc refers to any optical media such as a CDs and DVDs that are read by a laser. Disk refers to magnetic media, such as your computer's hard drive. Now go out and impress at least three of your nerd friends! ...
Jamaican Wii White Board
Check out what these guys from Jamaica did with basically a Wii remote, a computer, and a dry erase board. They were able to exploit the two infra red cameras in the front end of a Wii remote which can detect the Infrared light from an infrared pen shined onto a white board. Pretty clever. A hijacked Wii remote can add an unexpectedly cool kinetic interactive dimension to any digital experiential execution. You just need someone who isn't afraid to "open up the hood" and tinker around a bit!...
