The Rise And Fall Of Yahoo: The Infographic. It’s no secret that Yahoo is in a troubled place. And has been for awhile. We just learned of the news that Yahoo is looking to sell bookmarking service Delicious and “sunsetting” a number of other web services. Preceding this debacle was a massive round of layoffs that affected over 500 employees. Many have tried to pinpoint where Yahoo went wrong (i.e. product strategy, leadership etc.), but this infographic, titled “The Rise And Fall Of Yahoo,” gives you a play by play of the company’s history, acquisitions, highs, lows and more. Produced by Focus, the timeline ends at February 2010. With set to Yahoo report earnings next week, all eyes will be on the company as it attempts to regroup and possibly find a way to dig itself out of this mess. Click the image for a larger version: The Great Movie Sequel Debate Visualized. Pearltrees Dives Into Social Curating With Pearltrees Team.
Content curation and mapping service Pearltrees has decided to focus on the fact that people want to do things in groups and has as of today upgraded its core product with a groups functionality, called Pearltrees Team. Now accesible just by logging in, Pearltrees Team allows you to hook up with other people in order to create a Pearltree collaboratively in realtime. Ideally this goes down as such: You really care about fashion so you search for fashion in the Pearltrees search box and are confronted with really elaborate visual cluster displays of fashion blogs, each blog its own “pearl.”
You decide that anyone who likes The Sartorialist is probably a good egg and click on the puzzle piece in the Pearltrees detail window in order to ask if you can join the team. If the team leader accepts, you then can see all the Pearltree curation happening as it happens as well as as comment on individual Pearltree decisions. Visualized: the real Android fragmentation. It's been staring you in the face all this time. The Android fragmentation that not only threatens, but dooms Google's mobile OS: the buttons are always in different places. How will we ever cope?
[Thanks, Drummertist] Comments. Who Ships Those 300 Million Holiday Packages, Visualized. The Dogs of Cyber War Visualized. The State Of Wikipedia (Video + Infographic) Wikipedia just celebrated its tenth birthday. As a self-proclaimed fan of the site, I wanted to share with you this video, made for the occasion as Wikipedia enters its second decade. The ‘State Of Wikipedia’ video is part of the ‘State Of’ series made by interactive agency from JESS3, and is narrated by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales.
Today, the English Wikipedia now stands at 3.5+ million articles (up from roughly 500,000 in March 2005), and more than 17 million across all languages. No matter what you think about Wales, the foundation or the site, that’s an impressive feat. (Source: press release) Click the image below for a larger infographic: Infographic of the Day: Do Smarter People Make More Money? | Co.Design. We all know, at least vaguely, that a better education leads to better prospects in life. But is that really true? A superb map created by GOOD shows that it is -- but thanks to the ingenuity of the map design, it also manages to reveal a good deal more about the links between education and money.
The map is actually quite unintuitive, but once you get the hang of it, it's amazing. So first, let's talk about the mapping method. What's fascinating is that these three maps are laid over each other -- and thus the color combinations become the really important thing to look for. [Click for full-sized version] Now, let's back up. But two colors you see a lot of are pinks and deep blues. And two final notes: There are some tiny pockets of the U.S. where decent money is made without very high rates of education -- these are shown in the places that are blue.
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