Category Archives: Report

Ever wondered how the Internet travels across the Oceans? Check this interactive map

Posted on January 4, 2018 by Stefano

Travelling around the seven seas may seem too inadequate these days. The guys at TeleGeography charted the Internet undersea cable courses with incredible detail – and depicting the whole map as an Indiana Jones journal! Image source: TeleGeography According to … Continue reading →

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Enter HIP – Human IP address: the Internet of Human Beings

Posted on September 24, 2015 by Stefano

A recent Forbes story has sparkled speculations about IP addresses being assigned to each and every human being. Besides the Science-Fiction scenario, it seems logical to assign to all living human beings an IP address hence bypassing any further IDs, … Continue reading →

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Latest National Geographic Magazine: “The age of disbelief” (about science)

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Stefano

Love National Geographic Magazine: March issue’s cover story is about disbelief, skepticism about science and doubt versus estabilished science. From medicine to space, from history to dinosaur, from evolution to global climate: skepticism is all around us and is, somehow … Continue reading →

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The Tablet Newspaper as seen in 1994

Posted on December 9, 2013 by Stefano

Knight Ridder (back then a media behemoth) produced a video that, back in 1994, depicts a tablet delivering news… We may still use computers to create information but we’ll use the tablet to interact with information. It’s an interesting piece … Continue reading →

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2013: IEEE estimates some 11 billion devices connected to the Internet

Posted on November 25, 2013 by Stefano

As of today, there are 10.95 billion devices connected to the Internet. Compare that with only 500 million connected devices 6 years ago (back in 2007). [Source: IEEE.org]

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What if Wi-Fi was visible? An artist illustrates an unusual world

Posted on July 24, 2013 by Stefano

What if you could see Wi-Fi? Artist and researcher Nickolay Lamm has put together a very interesting set of images where Washington D.C. shows in full color Wi-Fi fields and rainbows. It’s an unusual approach and a very cool one: … Continue reading →

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Rastrack: where in the world are Raspberry PIs?

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Stefano

Meet Rastrack: a Google Maps-based service where you can register for free and tell where you’re taking care of your Raspberry PI – geolocating it, and when it was shipped to you. Check the numbers, check how many people around … Continue reading →

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Twitter Statistics 2012 by Beevolve: amazing results

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Stefano

As we’re reaching the end of 2012, we’re getting more and more “Year-stats”: social analysis tool Beevolve brings us a complete survey of more than 35 million Twitter accounts and some results are quite amazing. US Twitter users are 50/50 … Continue reading →

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How much data do americans consume in a day? [infographic]

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Stefano

Amazing infographic: 3.6 zettabytes per day consumed every day by US internet users 😉 Looks like that, beginning from 1980, there has been a 6% increase per year, getting to the total amount in zettabytes – that’s 10^21 bytes!

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SEO is dead, long live good content curation and Social PR – says Forbes

Posted on July 28, 2012 by Stefano

Ken Krogue on Forbes just posted an article that will for sure ignite polemic flaming on the ‘Net. He reports Adam Torkildson, one of the top SEO consultants in Utah and one of the best in the country told him … Continue reading →

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