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Interactive ‘tree map’ showing top 100 sites – Jan ‘10

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The BBC has published this interesting infographic – the top 100 websites in Europe depicted in proportion to the amount of unique visits they received in January 2010. This is taken from the BBC’s ‘Superpower‘ series.

(A treemap is a way of analysing large amounts of data in a small space.)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8562801.stm.

If you hate timesheets...

RescueTime is a Seattle based start-up and – if like a lot of us, you’re a frequent binge-surfer and constantly distracted by web ’stuff’ you just have to see – you should be worried! Essentially RescueTime (the product) is a productivity management tool that sits in the background and watches what your doing online. It records time spent using applications, working on documents and – of course – web surfing.

Available as a pay-as-you-go licence the feedback and blog buzz is impressive and if you work on a freelance or contract basis this little application should pay dividends.

RescueTime Time Tracking Overview from Tony Wright on Vimeo.

Your message turned into a work of art

: Image via Wikipedia

Skype has teamed up with five very different artists around the world who will turn your message into a piece of art. There’s a ‘masked messenger in Tokyo, a tree artist (carves messages in wood), a troupe of street performers and two avant garde artists who can be Skyped with your message – the lucky ones are then transformed by the artists and the process videoed and shown on the mobile Skype Outside website.

Google takes a bobsled to winter games

Through Google Maps you can know access a variation of the Street View option – called ‘Ski View’. This takes you right onto the piste with the now familiar point-n-click navigation options.

Google Maps.

Liquid Galaxy project showcased

Google showed a demo of Google Earth displayed across eight curved screens and powered by eight Linux machines. A lot of power needed as the demo takes us on a flight through the skies, out into space and back under the oceans. Not one for anyone who suffers with motion sickness.

(TGIF – iPhone remote controlled quadri-copter)

: Image via CrunchBase

Demonstration from Macworld 2010 which uses the motion sensor capability of the iPhone to steer a R/C quadricopter.

The Parrot AR.Drone

Tubemogul – video seeding

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Tubemogul promotes itself as a single point of video content distribution to multiple video sharing sites. A major feature of the service is the analytics package that it supports. Distribution is limited to 5 deployments per month – one video to 5 sites counts as 5 deployments. Storage capacity is unlimited and social media integration is – naturally – included (automated updates to your Twitter posts).

For SEO projects (now we’re able to optimise video) this looks like a useful tool to bookmark. Oh – and it’s free to try.