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Yahoo!'s Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site

As Jakob Nielsen says: Download times rule the Web the faster your page loads, the better!

Mobile Internet devices vs Humans

Internet devices

From: arstechnica.com

Mobile Internet devices will outnumber humans this year, Cisco predicts

By Jon Brodkin| Last updated 6 days ago

Cisco came up with an interesting prediction in its latest forecast of global mobile data traffic: by the end of this year, there will be more Internet-connected mobile devices than people on Earth.

"By the end of 2012, the number of mobile-connected devices will exceed the number of people on Earth, and by 2016 there will be 1.4 mobile devices per capita," Cisco said in its Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update released today. "There will be over 10 billion mobile-connected devices in 2016... exceeding the world's population at that time (7.3 billion)."

The numbers include not just phones but tablets, laptops, handheld gaming consoles, e-readers, in-car entertainment systems, digital photo frames, cameras, and "machine-to-machine modules." That latter category includes applications such as using wireless networks to update digital billboards.

Global mobile data traffic doubled for the fourth year in a row in 2011, and will grow 18-fold by 2016, hitting 130 exabytes a year (the equivalent of 33 billion DVDs, 4.3 quadrillion MP3 files, or 813 quadrillion text messages), Cisco said. Not surprisingly, streaming content, video in particular, is expected to play a huge role in increasing data traffic. Good news for users: mobile network speeds will increase nine-fold by 2016. Bad news: the days of unlimited data plans seem to be expiring quickly, with few exceptions.

Dropbox

Dropbox

What a handy new service!

I saw the article: Dropbox inventor determined to build the next Apple or Google, tried it and believe that this is a very handy tool. Give it a try!

Wordle: Technology Lunch

 

Technology Lunch in Shepherdstown,WV

An occasional meeting of technology fans, geeks and others for lunch and discussion of the current state of technology. Open to all of good cheer.

Wordle on the Web

So, Will Wordle be used on the web...?

Wordle

What a handy fun "toy". I just had to try it!

Created with Wordle  Some other versions I have made in a PDF

XFN - XHTML Friends Network

XFN 1.1 relationships meta data profile

As described in HTML4 Meta data profiles.

rel

HTML4 definition of the 'rel' attribute. Here are some additional values, each of which can be used or omitted in any combination (unless otherwise noted, and except where prohibited by law) and their meanings, symmetry, transitivity and inverse if any. Please see the XFN home page for more information about XFN.

friendship (pick at most one)

contact

Someone you know how to get in touch with. Often symmetric.

acquaintance

Someone who you have exchanged greetings and not much (if any) more — maybe a short conversation or two. Often symmetric.

friend

Someone you are a friend to. A compatriot, buddy, home(boy|girl) that you know. Often symmetric.

physical

met

Someone who you have actually met in person. Symmetric.

professional

co-worker

Someone a person works with, or works at the same organization as. Symmetric. Usually transitive.

colleague

Someone in the same field of study/activity. Symmetric. Often transitive.

geographical (pick at most one)

co-resident

Someone you share a street address with. Symmetric and transitive.

neighbor

Someone who lives nearby, perhaps only at an adjacent street address or doorway. Symmetric. Often transitive.

family (pick at most one)

child

A person's genetic offspring, or someone that a person has adopted and takes care of. Inverse is parent.

parent

Inverse of child.

sibling

Someone a person shares a parent with. Symmetric. Usually transitive.

spouse

Someone you are married to. Symmetric. Not transitive.

kin

A relative, someone you consider part of your extended family. Symmetric and typically transitive.

romantic

muse

Someone who brings you inspiration. No inverse.

crush

Someone you have a crush on. No inverse.

date

Someone you are dating. Symmetric. Not transitive.

sweetheart

Someone with whom you are intimate and at least somewhat committed, typically exclusively. Symmetric. Not transitive.

identity

me

A link to yourself at a different URL. Exclusive of all other XFN values. Required symmetric. There is an implicit "me" relation from the contents of a directory to the directory itself.

Xhtml Friends Network

XFN™ (XHTML Friends Network) is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks. In recent years, blogs and blogrolls have become the fastest growing area of the Web. XFN enables web authors to indicate their relationship(s) to the people in their blogrolls simply by adding a 'rel' attribute to their <a href> tags, e.g.:

<a href="http://jeff.example.org" rel="friend met">...

The 5 Best Free Tools For Making Slick Infographics | Fast Company

Quoted from http://www.fastcompany.com/1749649/5-infographics-tools-for-business?partner=rss:

The 5 Best Free Tools For Making Slick Infographics | Fast Company

The 5 Best Free Tools For Making Slick Infographics

BY Amber MacTue Apr 26, 2011

• Hohli
• Many Eyes (IBM)
• Google Public Data Explorer
• Wordle
• Visual.ly

jisc

 

JISC Digital Media - Still images, moving images and sound advice

This is a good site for information and resources on digital and imaging issues.

I believe that this site is related to TASI, Technical Advisory Service for Images ; which I can't find anymore.

The desktop images from TASI are very useful.

1. 1024 desktop Image
2. 1280 desktop Image

Paid Advertisement

Paid Advertisement

While looking at the CSS Formatter and Optimiser site I was treated to this paid advertisment.
I dislike this when it is used on TV; to take control of my screen and push unwanted information at me.
Even more so, when it is used on the web.