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Googles GMail has become very unreliable the last few days as emails correspondents are missing from Inboxes.  We are all buying into Cloud computing and the Software as a Service market, but we however are unaware of if our data is being handled with care?  Google says that the issue “affects less than .29% of the Google Mail user base ...

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YouTube Map My Summer [youtube.com] is a new YouTube experiment that tries to provide a more meaningful interface to recently submitted Australian videos. In the end, the project should create a compelling archive of the events, experiences and people from all around Australia during summer (remember, it is summer now down under).

In essence, the project tries to filter the related metadata according to the categories Activity, People or Place, while it maps all the videos on a (unfortunately invisible…) map of Australia. As a result, people can discover those specific videos that take place on a beach, show extraterrestrials, or somehow relate to a wedding. In addition, statistical data about the submitted movies according to their geographical location can be discovered through interactive donut graphs that are colored according to the three categories.

Via Visualising Data.

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WiFi is everywhere, floating and whirling around us somehow, but where is it really? In Immaterials: Light painting WiFi, Timo Arnall, Jørn Knutsen and Einar Sneve Martinussenuse a rod of blinking lights to visualize signal strength in their college town.

In order to study the spatial and material qualities of wireless networks, we built a WiFi measuring rod that visualises WiFi signal strength as a bar of lights. When moved through space the rod displays changes in the WiFi signal. Long-exposure photographs of the moving rod reveal cross sections of a network’s signal strength.

The stronger the signal strength, the more lights that illuminate in that specific spot, updating as the walker/carrier moves. Then using long-exposure photographs, the lights are recorded for beautiful results. Super simple concept, yet very effective. See the device in action in the video below.

via: Flowing Data

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Auto maker BMW recently established a New York-based venture capital firm dubbed BMW i Ventures that it seeded with $100 million to seek out partnerships that might facilitate BMW-i product adoption in urban markets. BMW-i is a BMW sub-brand solely focused on developing and producing sustainable mobility vehicles. Its first investment was made public this week: BMW pumped $5 million ...

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As the popularity of mobile apps skyrockets, it’s not surprising that the barrier to entry for creating them is getting lower. On Android we’ve already seen Google’s own App Inventor make life easier for would-be developers. Now AppsGeyser is turning app development into something that literally anyone can do. Let’s be clear before we start, this isn’t going to let ...

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Google yesterday bloged various changes to their search algorithms, they have described these changes to be minor but may affect how websites will be ranked in the future. Google have expressed this change has only been made in the US, and has not been rolled out to anyother country (yet).

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I think we all have that certain moments in our life when time stands still.  If just for a second, we could bet our lives on that time halted just because of a picture taken of us.  If not for the aging, it was certainly that moment that defined our entire future.  It’s that very personality that our lives would ...

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So we all know Apple are getting very predicatable as they are starting refresh products based on a schedule.  Sources have detailed the iPad 2 will have more RAM (512MB) and a more powerful CPU (the A5)  as well. It’s also a pretty safe bet the tablet will be sporting at least one camera up front — though if some ...

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Okay, so this Google announcement doesn’t come with some dessert-themed upgrade, but we guarantee you’ll be able to find recipes for cupcakes, gingerbread, and maybe even ice cream. Yep, those always-hungry folks in Mountain View are rolling out a new Recipe View tab, which will not only narrow your search results to show cooking recipes, but will also provide some pretty awesome ways ...

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It appears that LinkedIn has been blocked in China, after the professional social network became a platform for organizing anti-government protests.  Many other websites like; Facebook, Twitter and youtube are also blocked in the country.

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