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08.31.10Website Access Log VisualizationWebsite access logs are reeeeally boring. Or are they? check this out! Description from Google Code: Logstalgia is a website traffic visualization that replays or streams Apache web-server access logs as a pong-like battle between the web server and an never ending torrent of requests. Requests appear as colored balls (the same color as the host) which travel across the screen to arrive at the requested location. Successful requests are hit by the paddle while unsuccessful ones (eg 404 - File Not Found) are missed and pass through. The paths of requests are summarized within the available space by identifying common path prefixes. Related ...
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03.11.10Stickybits: Embed Digital Content On Physical ObjectsVia the Los Angeles Times: Last fall, social media entrepreneur Seth Goldstein was hanging out with ace programmer Billy Chasen in Manhattan. They had a pastrami sandwich at 2nd Avenue Deli then walked the streets, chatting about different ways to leave digital traces in the physical world. A few weeks later, Chasen seized on the idea of creating stickers with bar codes that could be scanned by Android phones or iPhones. You could put the stickers on any object. Then you could attach a message to the bar code: say text, a photo, music or a video that anyone could then scan with ...
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03.10.1010 Years After: A Look Back at the Dotcom Boom and BustVia Boing Boing: Wired claims that this is the tenth anniversary of the dotcom boom, and in honor of that auspicious overheated bubble, they've put together a long, Web 0.96b layout depicting the most hubristicly hubristic predictions and hype of that golden age. Link to Wired article.
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03.09.10US YouTube Video Views Up 50% in JanuaryVia PhysOrg.com: Industry tracker comScore on Monday reported that US online video viewing at YouTube climbed 50 percent in January as compared to the same month a year earlier. More than 173.3 million US Internet users watched video online in January, tuning into a total of 32.4 billion videos. The duration of the average online video was slightly longer than four minutes. Link
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02.15.10You’re Never Too Old to TweetVia Gizmodo: This Commodore VIC-20 is running software from a cassette tape, has only 5 KB of RAM, and a processor that runs at 1 MHz. Yeah, it's vintage. But it's also the first VIC-20 to tweet. Using software called TweetVER (short for Tweeting from a Vintage ComputER), the folks at the PC Museum will be accessing Twitter from this VIC-20. You can read the first tweet on Saturday February 20th at 11am EST by following the museum's Twitter account. (There appear to be some test tweets from a modern computer on the page, so disregard those.) Link
