This image of President Obama, which is going viral on the net and Twitter, is becoming a big hit with football (soccer) and sports fans arond the world in the last 24 hours.
It shows the reaction of both England's former captain David Beckham and President Barack Obama after England's keeper Rob Green made that horrible blunder against the U.S. in Saturdays, June 12, 2010 first round match in South Africa 2010.
What are your thoughts of Obama smiling in this picture?
Don't you just love irony! You have to pay the Wall Street Journal to read their article on how The New York Times is going to start charging their readers in January.
The GIF animated Switching Thumbs!
The new "hundie" was presented today. It will be in circulation next year.
AP wrote - "The folks who print America's money have designed a high-tech makeover of the U.S. $100 bill. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says it's part of an effort to stay ahead of counterfeiters as technology becomes more sophisticated and more dollars flow ove"
Los Angeles Times - Why so fancy, Benjamin? Will the new $100 put an end to counterfeits?
Take a look into the naughty world of iPad Unboxing porn.
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With Twitter hitting 50 million tweets per day, Facebook passing the 400 million user mark earlier this year, and YouTube viewers watching 1 billion videos per day; the top Internet social-media properties have some very impressive stats. But what are the stats for the whole Internet with all the net properties combined?
Well, take a good hard look at Jesse Thomas' video "State of the Internet". Thomas created and animated this video with data and verified references from multiple sources — highlighting some remarkable figures and visually depicts the Internet as we know it today (late 2009 - early 2010). This is a must-see video for anyone who would like to grasp their mind around just how massive Internet technologies figures have become in our daily lives.
You can watch the video below, but here are some interesting stats and figures from the video:
- There are 1.73 billion Internet users worldwide as of September 2009.
- There are 1.4 billion e-mail users worldwide, and on average we collectively send 247 billion e-mails per day. Unfortunately 200 billion of those are spam e-mails.
- As of December 2009, there are 234 million websites.
- Facebook gets 260 billion page views per month, which equals 6 million page views per minute and 37.4 trillion page views in a year.
Now, wait till the mobile-web really takes off by 2015 or sooner.
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Since today is St Patrick's Day, there must be a "Pot of Gold" at the end of the rainbow....;-)Scott Meinzer wrote - "It's been raining on and off all day here in San Francisco, randomly it started haling and then this rainbow showed up.... By the time I grabbed my camera it was starting to fade away but I still managed to snap this HDR before it disappeared"
Apple Inc. has chosen the Oscars awards show to debut the first iPad commercial video during tonight's March 7, 2010 telecast!
The ad explains why Apple CEO Steve Jobs was spotted on the red carpet earlier.
Visualized Vancouver 2010 Tweets
During last week's broadcast of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, NBC set up a fun Twitter tracker for the mega global winter sports event. It represents tweets about each sport in a visual interface.
The Olympic Twitter Tracker, developed by Stamen Design, is an amusing addition to the standard tweet stream, which was provided by NBC as well. The feature was presented on the Twitter bog a couple weeks ago, and Twitter posted a video demo (below).
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Here is a beautiful video of the unveiling of the gorgeous athlete medals of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games.
The Games in Vancouver and Whistler Blackcomb in British Colombia, Canada starts tonight with the spectacular Opening Ceremony.
