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Wednesday, September 1st, 2010Just like today’s weather Infographics are very hot! There isn’t a day that goes by without us sighting another one in the wild. This latest one has loads of statistics on how people spend their time online. For example, did you know that 42% of the time online is spent on viewing content? Read on [...]
Why Do People Let Their Barriers Down Online?
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010Research suggests that many people are disclosing extremely personal information online, that they would not tell others normally – why? A number of factors lead to this type of behaviour: Firstly, online communications are more ‘sparse’ than face to face (e.g. no body language) and so people try to add in more information to build [...]
If You're an Avid Internet User You May Be More Cultured Than You Think
Monday, August 23rd, 2010The National Endowment for the Arts has released a report on technology and the arts with findings indicating that internet users might be more – not less, as some have opined – cultured than others. Audience 2.0: How Technology Influences Arts Participation looks at how new media use affects adults’ interaction with “high culture” like [...]
The Era of the American Internet Is Ending
Friday, August 6th, 2010Invented by American computer scientists during the 1970s, the Internet has been embraced around the globe. During the network’s first three decades, most Internet traffic flowed through the United States. In many cases, data sent between two locations within a given country also passed through the United States. View the original here.
Social Media Metrics: How Internet Famous Are You?
Monday, July 5th, 2010Monitor, monitor, on the wall, “Who’s the most Internet famous of them all?” Wired.com has launched a new, free service for everyone who wonders how Internet famous they currently are. It’s called the “Celebrity Meter.” It won’t tell you how whether you have celebrity friends, but it will let you know–in rough numbers–how much of [...]
10 Future Web Trends
Monday, June 14th, 2010What can we expect from the next 10 or so years on the Web? As NatC commented in this week’s poll, the biggest impact of the Web in 10 years time won’t necessarily be via a computer screen – “your online activity will be mixed with your presence, travels, objects you buy or act with.” [...]
The Internet of Things
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010Over the past century but accelerating over the past couple of decades, we have seen the emergence of a kind of global data field. The planet itself — natural systems, human systems, physical objects — have always generated an enormous amount of data, but we didn’t used to be able to hear it, to see [...]
What Is "Internet Vigilantism?"
Monday, April 19th, 2010Internet vigilantism is the phenomenon of vigilantic acts taken through the Internet (the communication network or its service providers) or carried out using applications (World Wide Web, e-mail) that depend on the Internet. The term encompasses vigilantism against scams, crimes, and non-Internet related behavior. Here are some actual cases with surprising but controversial results. View [...]
How Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?
Friday, April 2nd, 2010Read any newspaper or magazine and you will notice the many flavors of the one big question that everyone is asking today. Or you can just stay on the page and read recent editions of Edge. View the original here.
FBI Details Top Internet Scams
Thursday, March 25th, 2010According to the FBI and the IC3 website, the “popular scam trends for 2009” included hitman scams, astrological reading frauds, economic scams, job site scams, and fake pop-up ads for antivirus software. View the original here.
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