A time lapse video tribute to London by Alex Silver (7,757 pictures)

Focus have published this great diagram, which I believe can help some of us understand what HTML5 is all about, where the web is heading and how ready our tools (browsers) are to cope with the new technology. The diagram covers Canvas and Video elements, as well as Geolocation and Offline web applications. On top of that, there is a table of modern browsers and their compatibility with HTML5 features.

Remember when we were poor?

Now that the iPhone 4 has been officially revealed and Steve Jobs has shown off all of the supposedly remarkable things it can do, we thought we’d cut through the hype and pit the new iPhone against its competition in the clearest way we know how: with an infographic.

The infographic below compares the latest wave of touchscreen smartphones head-to-head: the HTC Evo, the Droid Incredible and the Apple iPhone 4.

From the Evo’s giant screen, to the Droid’s removable battery, to the iPhone’s 300 hour standby time (advertised), see how the hottest phones stack up. Which of these phones would you rather own? Do you already have any of these phones or do you plan to get one? Let us know in the comments.
(Article from Mashable)

Squiz Announce the Release of all SSV Modules as GPL, a New User Interface; the Easy Edit Suite, and a New MySource Matrix Manuals Website.

Squiz has some exciting news to share! Recent release of MySource Matrix, v3.28, includes some significant changes and upgrades, most significantly, that it now includes all of the SSV modules as GPL.

• That Squiz have released all of the SSV modules as GPL
• A terrific new Easy Edit Interface is now available for MySource Matrix (also GPL)
• The launch of a new manuals site available at http://manuals.matrix.squiz.net
• The upgrade process for MySource Matrix has just got a whole lot easier

Icelander Sean Stiegemeier was frustrated at the various “mediocre” photos of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano that stopped Europe and decided he wanted to turn what has been somewhat of a nightmare into a thing of beauty.

This video is nothing short of incredible. Sit back, expand to full screen, turn up the volume and be mesmerized.

Top 10 finalist of the Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest 2010
Koukichi Sugihara
Meiji Institute for Advanced Study of Mathematical Sciences, Japan

In this video, wooden balls roll up the slopes just as if they are pulled by a magnet. The behavior of the balls seems impossible, because it is against the gravity. The video is not a computer graphic, but a real scene. What is actually happening is that the orientations of the slopes are perceived oppositely, and hence the descending motion is misinterpreted as ascending motion. This illusion is remarkable in that it is generated by a three-dimensional solid object and physical motion, instead of a two-dimensional picture.

This amazing video by Spacecraft Films shows the July 16, 1969 launch of the Apollo 11 mission that landed the first humans on the moon. The camera was rolling at a whopping 500 frames per second, allowing the first 30 seconds of the launch to be slowed down into this 8-minute narrated video of pure awesomeness.

Google released a Chrome 5 beta build this week that brings a significant boost to the browser's JavaScript performance. If only it did support Java (Mac)...

1. Over 50% of the world’s population is under 30-years-old

2. 96% of them have joined a social network

3. Facebook tops Google for weekly traffic in the U.S.

4. Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the Web

5. 1 out of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met via social media

6. Years to Reach 50 millions Users: Radio (38 Years), TV (13 Years), Internet (4 Years), iPod (3 Years)...

7. Facebook added over 200 million users in less than a year

8. iPhone applications hit 1 billion in 9 months.

9. We don’t have a choice on whether we DO social media, the question is how well we DO it.

10. If Facebook were a country it would be the world’s 3rd largest ahead of the United States and only behind China and Indi

11. Yet, QQ and Renren dominate China

12. 2009 US Department of Education study revealed that on average, online students out performed those receiving face-to-face instruction

13. 80% of companies use social media for recruitment; % of these using LinkedIn 95%

14. The fastest growing segment on Facebook is 55-65 year-old females

15. Ashton Kutcher and Ellen Degeneres (combined) have more Twitter followers than the populations of Ireland, Norway, or Panama. Note I have adjusted the language here after someone pointed out the way it is phrased in the video was difficult to determine if it was combined.

16. 50% of the mobile Internet traffic in the UK is for Facebook…people update anywhere, anytime…imagine what that means for bad customer experiences?

17. Generation Y and Z consider e-mail passé – some universities have stopped distributing e-mail accounts

18. Instead they are distributing: eReaders + iPads + Tablets

19. What happens in Vegas stays on YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook...

20. The #2 largest search engine in the world is YouTube

21. While you watch this 100+ hours of video will be uploaded to YouTube

22. Wikipedia has over 15 million articles…studies show it’s more accurate than Encyclopedia Britannica... 78% of these articles are non-English

23. There are over 200,000,000 Blogs

24. Because of the speed in which social media enables communication, word of mouth now becomes world of mouth

25. If you were paid a $1 for every time an article was posted on Wikipedia you would earn $156.23 per hour

26. 25% of search results for the World’s Top 20 largest brands are links to user-generated content

27. 34% of bloggers post opinions about products & brands

28. Do you like what they are saying about your brand? You better.

29. People care more about how their social graph ranks products and services than how Google ranks them

30. 78% of consumers trust peer recommendations

31. Only 14% trust advertisements

32. Only 18% of traditional TV campaigns generate a positive ROI

33. 90% of people that can TiVo ads do

34. Kindle eBooks Outsold Paper Books on Christmas

35. 24 of the 25 largest newspapers are experiencing record declines in circulation

36. 60 millions status updates happen on Facebook daily

37. We no longer search for the news, the news finds us

38. We will non longer search for products and services, they will find us via social media

39. Social Media isn’t a fad, it’s a fundamental shift in the way we communicate

40. Successful companies in social media act more like Dale Carnegie and less like Mad Men Listening first, selling second

41. The ROI of social media is that your business will still exist in 5 years

42. Bonus: comScore indicates that Russia has the most engage social media audience with visitors spending 6.6 hours and viewing 1,307 pages per visitor per month – Vkontakte.ru is the #1 social network

And here is the video:

Comedy Central has unveiled the first image from the show's long-awaited return, below.

The network will bring back "Futurama" next month -- Thursday, June 24 at 10 p.m.

Here is the first image:

• Front-facing video chat camera
• Improved regular back-camera (the lens is quite noticeably larger than the iPhone 3GS)
• Camera flash
• Micro-SIM instead of standard SIM (like the iPad)
• Improved display. It's unclear if it's the 960x640 display thrown around before—it certainly looks like it, with the "Connect to iTunes" screen displaying much higher resolution than on a 3GS.
• What looks to be a secondary mic for noise cancellation, at the top, next to the headphone jack
• Split buttons for volume
• Power, mute, and volume buttons are all metallic

• The back is entirely flat, made of either glass (more likely) or ceramic or shiny plastic in order for the cell signal to poke through. Tapping on the back makes a more hollow and higher pitched sound compared to tapping on the glass on the front/screen, but that could just be the orientation of components inside making for a different sound
• An aluminum border going completely around the outside
• Slightly smaller screen than the 3GS (but seemingly higher resolution)
• Everything is more squared off
• 3 grams heavier
• 16% Larger battery
• Internals components are shrunken, miniaturized and reduced to make room for the larger battery

MySource Matrix 3.26.2 has been integrated with purpose-built Funnelback binaries, for indexing and searching of content housed in a MySource Matrix system.

Searches are performed against Collections, which are linked to MySource Matrix Site assets, and Meta-Collections which comprise multiple Collections (ie; for searching more than one site at a time). Configuration of Collections, Metadata mappings and indexing are performed under the Funnelback Manager asset.

The Funnelback Search Page asset has been expanded to include bodycopies for Contextual Navigation, Type Formats (HTML, PDF etc.), Featured Pages and spelling suggestions.

Funnelback search integration is performed through interaction with external binaries. These are included within MySource Matrix SSV for configuration during installation or upgrade.

Search indexing functions differently to MySource Matrix Search, in that content is not immediately indexed when updated. Scripts are available within the Funnelback package which can be added to the cron to update the index periodically. The frequency at which the indexer should be run is dependent on the amount of content being indexed and the dynamic requirements of this content. Collections can be reindexed independently of each other.