NASA's "Alien Eyes" - Unlocking Secrets of the Universe 3.6 Beta "Our personal window on the Universe is terribly small within a stunnng range of wavelengths. With our eyes we see wavelengths between 0.00004 and 0.00008 of a centimeter (where, not so oddly, the Sun and stars emit most of their energy). The human visual spectrum from violet to red is but one octave on an imaginary electromagnetic piano with a keyboard hundreds of kilometers long." James Kaler, astronomer and author of "Heavens Gate: From Killer Stars to the Seeds of Life, How We are Connected to the Universe." The image below is an infrared photo of M82 is a remarkable galaxy of peculiar type in constellation Ursa Major. Much of what you see above is outside our human visual band, our eyes cannot register wave photons no matter how powerful they may be. Shorter than the visual limit are the ultrviolet -all running in the vacuum at the speed of light. Casey Kazan Source: NASA/Hubble
35 Online Photo Editors To Help You Editing Photo Online As our generation is changing, tools for image editing and enhancers have improved and has multiplied. Editing photo online has become easier with the help of innovative and creative online photo editors. Back to few years ago, Adobe Photoshop is the king of photo editor. Now, we even have websites that allow us to edit photo online. Here, we share 35 useful Free Online Photo Editing Websites which we think it may be very helpful as one of your photoshop alternatives. Picnik This online tool makes your photos look beautiful in just one click. Splashup It has multiple image editing which makes your photos look great! FotoFlexer Try this most advanced online image editor! Improve Your Images Check this cool photo editor that restores, corrects, and adjusts your photos! Photoshop.com This one is an online image editor of photoshop.com. Aviary In this website, not only images can be edited, also the audio and color. FlauntR An online tool that has a lot of features. Pixlr Sumo Paint PicMagick DrPic Lunapic
Age (and ARPPU) ain’t nothing but a number: Data on ho Today we have the first part of a fantastic two part series where Gambit, a microtransactions platform, is sharing exclusive data and analysis for the payments happening on their platform. The author, Susan Su (@susanfsu), is a writer, marketer, and Stanford alum who’s currently at Gambit Payments. She wants startups to make it big, and you to make more money. Enjoy! –Andrew Age (and ARPPU) ain’t nothing but a number by Susan Su, Gambit Payments In the game of life, you’ve heard that age ain’t nothing but a number. In this post, we’re using demographic data from Gambit Payments to get a bird’s eye view of ARPPUs by age and transaction volume. A look at highest grossing agesWhich users pay the most to play? From this data set, you can see that Gambit’s developers got the highest ARPPUs with users aged 50+. Players in their 40s averaged a $4.39 ARPPU range – a pretty impressive figure still. This data should come as no surprise. Income. The key here is to know your users – Who are they?
College Student's Guide: Twitter 101 — Communication & Cognition Welcome to Twitter. You’ve decided to join the quickly growing world of micro-blogging. Approximately 1 billion blog posts have been written on how to Twitter well. This is neither my attempt to improve upon nor regurgitate them. This is simply the part that I distill to my college students, and I can point them here for a refresher. (Look at Mashable for perhaps the best overall Twitter advice I’ve seen.) Dear college student: At first you won’t quite get Twitter, and you probably won’t like it. But Twitter can help you get a job . You’re an Adult Now The first step is picking your username. Don’t tweet anything that you would not say to your mother or boss. This isn’t LinkedIn. A College Student Friendly Bio Here are some tips that will encourage people to follow you back. Use your real name. Use a real picture. Use a real location. Write a professional bio. You’re not a guru of anything. I’d like for you to have a Web site, but that’s a discussion for another day. When to Follow Back
TweetStream: An App to Drive the Global Brain – Pt 1 « Thoughtfu A few days ago in a post titled Twitter & The Global Brain I blogged about the parallels between twitter and giant neural network. Now I want to flesh out that model and make it a little more tangible by describing an app that I call TweetStream that could potentially solve several of twitter’s current problems: Taming the torrent of information that blasts current twitter users.Monetizing content and rewarding participation in the twitter experience.Moving the global system towards a coordinated efficient information exchange framework through which global consciousness crise and be exercised. The TweetStream App Imagine an app that provided not only the chronological list of friends updates that are is currently provided by Seesmic and Tweetdeck, but also provides what I’ll call a “personalized tweet stream”. My Input stream would show me tweets extracted from the global twitter stream that an algorithm (described below) predicts will be of most interest to me. From Rank to Input Stream
Organizing Armageddon: What We Learned From the Haiti Earthquake | Magazine Armageddon from above.Photo: Cameron Davidson/Corbis Pauli Immonen is quick-marching the length of the tarmac at Port-au-Prince’s crippled airport, looking for a missing 737. It’s not as if he can just check the arrivals board — the 7.0 earthquake that rocked the Haitian capital eight days ago has left the main terminal a flooded, deserted husk. Spotting a promising-looking Boeing, the lean, 42-year-old Finn hurries over to the two Nordic types at the foot of the stairs leading up to the plane and introduces himself. A flight attendant looks up with a professional smile and opens a snack-laden drawer in the galley. Immonen hit the ground in Port-au-Prince less than 72 hours after the quake, when the streets were still strewn with corpses. His job is to wrangle airplanes, making sure that the people and materiel on every Red Cross relief flight get to where they’re supposed to be. He finds the German flight, though, and gets to work lining up trucks to take its cargo into town.
Five innovations in news journalism, thanks to the web | Journal What has the web ever done for journalism, except skewer its business model and return freelance rates to levels not seen since the early 90s? Well, not much, apart from reinvent the form. Amidst the doom of gloom in our industry it is easy to lose sight of how the web has transformed the way we tell stories, provide context and analysis, and cover live events. This is arguably the most creative period in news journalism since movable type – new forms, new applications and new execution. Newspapers are embracing video and audio, radio stations do pictures, and TV has gone blogging. You’re likely to have your own suggestions, and favourites. 1. Broadcast news was quick to adopt the graphic as a means of explaining complex issues or, more prosaically, make the most of a picture-challenged story. 2. From crime mapping to a pictorial memorial to the victims of post-election Iran to joint investigations, the crowd is proving a potent force in journalism. 3. 4. 5.
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30 Predictions Of The Future For Twitter « Jeffbullas’s Blog 3.6 The direction Twitter will go will be determined not just by ”Twitter” the company but by the market forces and its users and especially the trends in Social Media, Search and Social Search. The emergence of Twitter Lists in the last few days is producing some interesting dynamics regarding influence real or perceived on Twitter. Some obvious trends Its growing importance as a real time search engine and feed from its API to startups such as Sency, Topsy and OneRiot and of course Google and Bing.The growing use of Twitter to drive traffic to blogs and websites .. Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur has some interesting and revealing and radical predictions … and though I don’t agree with all of them the future will be the real judge and jury.
50 Beautiful Retro and Vintage Photoshop Tutorials Six Revisions Skip site navigation 50 Beautiful Retro and Vintage Photoshop Tutorials May 2 2010 by Tomas Laurinavicius | 29 Comments Retro and vintage designs are valued for nostalgia and sentimental memories. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. Related Content About the Author Tomas Laurinavičius is a blogger and designer from Lithuania who’s currently studying Multimedia Design & Communication in Denmark. 29 Comments seeshell May 2nd, 2010 Nice work your very talented Richie May 2nd, 2010 Thanks for featuring two of my tutorials. Cheers, Richie Dan May 2nd, 2010 Retro seems to be coming in strong these past few months in web design, I love it! Tom Ross May 2nd, 2010 Great article Tomas! Nikola Lazarevic May 2nd, 2010 Great roundup! Thanks for including my tutorials: - How To Create a Retro Grunge Apple Wallpaper in 5 Easy Steps in Photoshop skyje Andrew
Adds File Hosting - Upload Images, Videos and PDF Documents Bit.ly, a popular URL shortening service, can now be used for hosting video files, images and PDF documents as well. Last month, bit.ly achieved an important milestone with some help from twitter. They became the most popular URL shortening service on the web pushing long-time market leader tinyurl.com to the second spot. To maintain their dominance, bit.ly is slowly expanding into new territory and they now offer free file hosting services as well in association with yfrog (a TinyPic like service for image and video hosting). To get started, just go to the bit.ly website, click “Link to a File” and you’ll be able to upload images, video clips (including Flash animations) and PDF documents to yfrog.com directly from bit.ly.
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