Tag: data

Local Businesses: Simple Solution To Win In Social Media [Infographic]

Local Businesses: Simple Solution To Win In Social Media [Infographic]

I know firsthand what it's like to get overwhelmed in social media. My first social media site was Twitter. Then, I added Facebook. Soon after that, I added Google+. Then, I was completely addicted to Pinterest for a while. That doesn't even include the niche social sites that I have accounts on. It ...
New Tech Combines Biometric Data & Visual Cues To Pinpoint Emotions

New Tech Combines Biometric Data & Visual Cues To Pinpoint Emotions

Lifelogging has gotten popular over the past few years, and although I've never seen people walking around with a lifelogging camera attached their shirts, apparently many people do. This new tech is like lifelogging on steroids. It takes lifelogging to the next level, which could be helpful for peo ...
Marketing Metrics: The Good & The Bad [Infographic]

Marketing Metrics: The Good & The Bad [Infographic]

One of the hardest tasks when it comes to a company's success is accurately evaluating marketing metrics. There are so many metrics today that trying to find the most relevant one is sometimes an impossible endeavor. We can look at the number of likes, shares and retweets, but that still wouldn't te ...
The Worrying State Of Internet Privacy In 2013 [Infographic]

The Worrying State Of Internet Privacy In 2013 [Infographic]

When we think about Internet privacy, it seems we all think about some incident in the past when either our own or someone else's personal information was compromised. It happens every day, and it will most likely continue to be that way. It is said that it is our own fault when this happens to us, ...
Are Google Alerts The Canary In The Big Data Mineshaft?

Are Google Alerts The Canary In The Big Data Mineshaft?

I remember the first time I actually got a Google Alert in my inbox. It was around 2008, and I had started my blog a while before. I signed up to get Google Alerts on my name mainly so I could see how fast Google indexed information. At the time, I noticed I got an alert within 3 hours of posting. I ...
Obake: A Stretchy Elastic Pinchable Interactive Touchscreen Display

Obake: A Stretchy Elastic Pinchable Interactive Touchscreen Display

There have been a lot of creative, interactive touchscreen designs that have come and gone over the years, and one thing they all seem to have in common is that they're flat. Sometimes they create an illusion, which makes them seem 3D, but they still have a hard, flat screen. This Obake design takes ...
8 Types Of Infographics & Which One To Use When [Infographic]

8 Types Of Infographics & Which One To Use When [Infographic]

Whether you love them or hate them, infographics are still one of the most effective ways to present a lot of information in an interesting, concise and easily digestible way. It's much faster to get the gist of something by scanning an infographic than reading several paragraphs of text. There have ...
Top 5 Mistakes That Compromise Your Web Security [Infographic]

Top 5 Mistakes That Compromise Your Web Security [Infographic]

If you've been using a computer for any extended period of time, you probably don't need to be reminded of the risks of treating your data with anything less than your complete attention. If you neglect it, you can be sure that soon enough you will see your computer start to behave in the weirdest w ...
Online Tracking: The Things You Didn’t Know [Infographic]

Online Tracking: The Things You Didn’t Know [Infographic]

When you are browsing the Internet, do you really know what information you are sharing? Most people don't have a clue that everything they do online could be being tracked. This includes what websites you visit, what you are interested in, and even who you really are. Most people stay unaware of th ...
Mood-Detecting Smartphone Apps Help Psychologists Diagnose Patients

Mood-Detecting Smartphone Apps Help Psychologists Diagnose Patients

Over the past few days, I've read about a couple of smartphone apps and computer programs that are smart enough to detect our moods, and after researching them more, a few of them are definitely worth sharing with you. Smartphone apps have gotten so sophisticated over the past few years that sometim ...
Revolutionary Computer Can Reprogram Itself, No More Computer Crashes

Revolutionary Computer Can Reprogram Itself, No More Computer Crashes

There is nothing that can interrupt your workflow like having to restart your computer, especially when you have a dozen tabs open and you have to save each link before restarting. It's one of the most annoying things that a computer makes us do, and I experience it at least once a week. Wouldn't it ...
The Evolution Of Online Content Consumption [Infographic]

The Evolution Of Online Content Consumption [Infographic]

As new services on the Internet allow us to share more content and faster, we're also increasing the amount of content we consume. The fact is, when comparing our content consumption ten years ago with our content consumption today, you would almost think we're several millenniums apart. In fact, ou ...
Leather USB Bracelet: Take Your Special Memories With You

Leather USB Bracelet: Take Your Special Memories With You

The trend over the past few years has definitely been to carry our data with us in the form of wearable USB devices. We've written about a lot of them, and my favorite has always been the R2-D2 Flash Drive Cufflinks. Too bad I'm not a guy or I'd be all over those. There has been a lot of USB jewelry ...
The Future Of Email: Best Practices & Trends [Infographic]

The Future Of Email: Best Practices & Trends [Infographic]

Email has had its share of troubles throughout the years, just like any other communication approach run through the Internet. People always find a way to pollute its awesomeness with spam regardless of all the preventive measures added. Email is one of those inventions that was adopted by a lot of ...
Never Before Seen Images Of Google’s Data Centers

Never Before Seen Images Of Google’s Data Centers

Kids today are so used to the Internet that I'm sure some of them think it lives in their computer. The intricacies of the Internet itself are far more complex than they were 10 years ago. Today we have servers that are supposed to handle ever faster Internet connections, and of course all the peopl ...
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