What happened on the internet in 2011?
January 24, 2012 § 1 Comment
We know what happened last year on the internet, but this year? The London design agency Syzygy weaves together “20 greatest, funniest and most insane internet events from 2011.”
Can you recognise them?
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In 60 seconds
August 30, 2011 § Leave a Comment
Every 60 seconds, 168 million emails are sent, more than 13,000 iPhone applications are downloaded, over 600,000 search queries are made, more than 98,000 tweets and more than 1,500 blog posts are published.Pretty amazing, don’t you think?
via TechPages
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I am socially stoned
July 6, 2011 § 2 Comments
Well, we all know that all social media can be extremely addictive, but each one with a completely different way. Patrick Moberg compares each one of them with popular drugs and alcoholic beverages:
via Design Taxi
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The history of search
July 5, 2011 § Leave a Comment
The journey of the English language in time
July 4, 2011 § 3 Comments
How did the English language evolve in time? Ten witty animated videos released by the Open University tell us ‘The History of English in 10 Minutes’, bringing us through 1600 years of linguistic history. From the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings to the English of the Internet, the journey of the language goes on.
Watch the rest of the videos: Anglo-Saxon, The Norman Conquest, Shakespeare, The King James Bible, The English of Science, English and Empire, The Age of the Dictionary, American English, Global English.
via OpenCulture
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- Can you take a hint?
- “Pun,ctu.a’tion?”
- Help the semicolon not to become extinct
- The incredible shrinking sentence and other wonders of the english language in the year 2011
1984, A brave new world
June 28, 2011 § Leave a Comment
How did the future that George Orwell and Aldous Huxley visualised turn out to be? The following infographic, created by Column Five for Akorn Entertainment, compares the concepts of 1984 and Brave New World to the current state of the Internet, as it has been evolved through the Internet censorship techniques of the East and the continuous stream of trivial information of the West.
via Visual News
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The internet in 2015
June 2, 2011 § 2 Comments
How different will our digital life be in just four years from now? Watch this superb infographic video, “Digital Life: Today and Tomorrow,” created by NeoLabels and Inés Leopoldo to find out. It lasts almost 8 minutes, but worth every second.
via Fastcodesign
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Free the Internet
February 7, 2011 § 2 Comments
Do you think the Internet is free? Nope, it’s heavily censored, actually.
What Is Being Censored On The Internet?
How Is The Internet Being Censored?
Why Are They Censoring The Internet?
Find out the answers to these questions and take a stand here
via Co.Design
Read it elsewhere
February 2, 2011 § 1 Comment
Mainly about Internet, but some other stuff too:
- Time to panic, the web is running out of addresses – The Wall Street Journal
- Everybody googles their exes – New York Post
- Don’t drink and go online – Thought Catalog
- The blog is dead, long live the blog – The Observer
- Ringo the brand. Ringo Starr trademarks his name - New York Mag
- Mobile device rehab - 99%
- How does Beethoven vibrate through milk? – Lost at E Minor
- Mondrian and other, Art-inspired cakes – Atypical Type A
A riddle for 2010
January 30, 2011 § 6 Comments
Can you remember what happened on the Internet in 2010?
The following illustration challenges our memory and our ability to decipher images.
Syzygy, a UK based digital agency, commissioned artist McBess to create a poster, illustrating 20 things (from industry events to web projects) that ‘happened’ on the Internet last year.
Can you spot them?
