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ZEICHEN.TV — Sonderzeichen in HTML & Unicode. MIT Technology Review. Ars Technica. Fonts. Theory. HTML/CSS. 10 tools for creating info graphics and visualizations. An interactive visualization at Datavisualization.ch. Explain complex concepts with stunning visuals Target audience: Marketing professionals, infographics specialists, PR pros, brand managers, businesses, nonprofits, educators, Web publishers, journalists. This article originally appeared at SEOmoz and is republished with permission. By Miranda Rensch Senior Product Manager, SEOmoz Communicating visually is one of the most effective ways to explain complex concepts and relationships. It can be a great way to explain your services or products and create valuable site content.

Below is a list of tools that you can use to create visualizations or simply to communicate visually with your fellow staff members. Piktochart: Create simple visualizations 1Piktochart is a Web-based tool that has six decent free themes (and a whole bunch more for the paid version) for creating simple visualizations. Easel.ly: Web-based infographic creation Infogr.am: Data-infused charts Bonus!

RSA Animate: Make a video. Accueil | Culture digitale et technologies impertinentes. Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS, FOSS, or FLOSS)? Look at the Numbers! Translations available: Czech | French | Japanese | Spanish David A. Wheeler Revised as of April 16, 2007 This paper provides quantitative data that, in many cases, using open source software / free software (abbreviated as OSS/FS, FLOSS, or FOSS) is a reasonable or even superior approach to using their proprietary competition according to various measures.

Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS) (also abbreviated as FLOSS or FOSS) has risen to great prominence. The goal of this paper is to convince you to consider using OSS/FS when you’re looking for software, using quantitive measures. I believe that this paper has met its goal; others seem to think so too. The following subsections describe the paper’s scope, challenges in creating it, the paper’s terminology, and the bigger picture. 1.1 Scope As noted above, the goal of this paper is to convince you to consider using OSS/FS when you’re looking for software, using quantitive measures.

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