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[Data Visualization] GE and the Internet of Turbines
Feb 11th
The next time you have to get an MRI or CT scan you might not know it but if the equipment is made by GE it is phoning home. No, the actual scan data is still between you and your doctor, but the broad stats of when and where the scan was taken is reported back to GE. In the true spirit of the Internet of Things, everything has an IP address, even an MRI machine. The analysts at GE have created some interesting data visualizations. About 125,000 scans are taken each day around the world with their equipment, and you can see time series information and other interesting stats on their blog.
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Medical scanners aren’t the only GE products to phone home: their gas turbine generators, used to produce electricity, also provide stats on their operations and the 700-some collection has also been analyzed and visualized. You can watch the turbine visualization here:
There is a lot more nifty info on the GE Visualization blog here, including a series of crowdsourced infographics produced at a series of coding marathon events held around the world last year.
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SEO Services Alert: Internet Marketing Blueprint Unveiled at 2012 AAJ Winter … – Sacramento Bee
Feb 10th
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SEO Services Alert: Internet Marketing Blueprint Unveiled at 2012 AAJ Winter …
Sacramento Bee By ONE SEO Company PHOENIX, Feb. 10, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — When you design your house you need an architect; when you design your lawyer Internet marketing campaign, you need an SEO architect who understands the online legal marketing industry. |
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SEO Services Alert: Internet Marketing Blueprint Unveiled at 2012 AAJ Winter … – MarketWatch (press release)
Feb 10th
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SEO Services Alert: Internet Marketing Blueprint Unveiled at 2012 AAJ Winter …
MarketWatch (press release) 10, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — When you design your house you need an architect; when you design your lawyer Internet marketing campaign, you need an SEO architect who understands the online legal marketing industry. |
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SEO Positive’s Head of Search Announces Presentation Slot At Internet World … – PR Web (press release)
Feb 8th
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SEO Positive's Head of Search Announces Presentation Slot At Internet World …
PR Web (press release) It's been announced this week that Head of Search Matt Wood at SEO Positive will be presenting a speech at Internet World 2012 in April. Following news that team members from internet marketing agency SEO Positive will be presenting talks at the … SEO Link Monster: All About the New Blog Network that Promises Top Ranking for … Googler: SEO Is A Bug, And Google Is Trying To Fix It Future of SEO: Change, Convergence, Collaboration |
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Today is Safer Internet Day
Feb 7th
Here at ReadWriteWeb, we encourage safer Internet use. We try to bring you the stories that help you navigate the World Wide Interwebs.
So we wanted to make sure you know that today is Safer Internet Day, and it’s meant especially for children and young people. Past Safer Internet Day themes have focused on cyberbullying and social networking. This year’s very apropos topic is “connecting generations.” How do we make sure everyone on the Internet – from young kids to grandparents – feel safe?
Safer Internet Day began as an initiative of the EU SafeBorders project in 2004. Today more than 70 countries worldwide on six of the seven continents participate. Take a look at the map after the jump.
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91% off Gen-Y’ers surveyed say that they have used the Internet in the bathroom from their mobile phones. Acts that take place in the bathroom are not exactly social – yet people are connecting to others from that private space. People use the Internet from their mobile phones less as the ages go up; only 41% of Internet users in the silent generation use their phones in the bathroom. From this study, one could infer that people who use the Internet less are safer – not so. Young people and older people are both vulnerable when it comes to the Internet.
This is exactly why Safer Internet Day is of vast importance.
In 1999, the European Commission created the Safer Internet Programme. Today, the Insafe network has set-up 30 Safer Internet Centres, one in each of the 27 EU states, in addition to Iceland, Norway and Russia. These Safer Internet Centers have an awareness center, helpline, hotline and youth panel.
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Internet Safety Facts and Stats
Safer Internet Day has also released some interesting facts about European Internet user experience and safety. Take a look:
- 26% of kids have a social networking profile
- 12% of European 9-16 year-olds say that something they saw on the Internet has bothered them
- 56% of parents whose kids received mean messages online had no idea that this had happened
- 1 in 8 parents do not mediate their kids’ Internet use
- 36% of 9-16 year-olds say that they know about the Internet than their parents
- 87% of kids use the Internet at home
- 48% of parents get online safety advice mostly from friends and family
- 63% of kids say they get online safety advice from their parents
Kids need to know about how to stay safe online – but if kids are coming to parents before teachers, relatives and peers, it is parents’ responsibility to know how to stay safe online.
To find out how you can participate in Safer Internet Day, go here: http://www.saferinternetday.org/web/guest/sid-2012
If you don’t have a national contact point, email the SID helpdesk at SID-helpdesk@eun.org. They can help you create your own.
Are you a parent of an Internet-using kid? Share your experience about Internet safety in the comments.
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Under Threat Of Being Blocked Google, Facebook Comply With India’s New Internet Censorship Rules
Feb 6th
After China and the US, India is the third largest internet market in the world. But India has philosophically aligned itself more with China in pursuing a policy of censorship toward publication of content deemed “offensive” or “objectionable” by individuals, groups or the government. A recently…
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Google Begins Building 1-Gigabit Internet Service in Kansas City
Feb 6th
Google breaks ground today on the super-fast fiber optic network it plans to build for the lucky residents of Kansas City, Kan. They’ll get a 1 gigabit-per-second Internet connection, which will offer downloads 100 times faster than what most Americans get. Uploads will be a thousand times faster than average.
Kansas City won this privilege over 1,100 other cities in March 2011. Since then, Google and the city have been surveying, planning, and eating “way too much barbecue,” says Google’s manager, Kevin Lo. Today, they start laying cable. A few months behind the Kansas side, neighbors on the other side of the river in Kansas City, Mo. will get the hook-up as well.
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How Fast Is Fiber?
Fiber optic cable contains a bundle of glass fibers about the width of a human hair. The fastest Internet connection on record was established by researchers at the SuperComputing 2011 conference in Seattle. They were testing ways to share the enormous amounts of data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Center for Nuclear Research. That connection reached 186 gigabits per second. Google Fiber is just 1 gigabit.
That’s not too shabby, though. Verizon’s FiOS network, which is among the fastest commercially available in the U.S., gets only 150 megabits per second. Google Fiber will be almost 7 times faster than that.
How Will Kansas City’s Fiber Work?
Kansas City won the Google Fiber competition because it met all of Google’s various requirements. “Our goal was to find a location where we could build efficiently, make an impact on the community, and develop working partnerships with the local government, utility and community organizations,” its FAQ says. “We believe we’ve found this in both Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri.”
Lo says the network will use “thousands of miles” of cable. The backbone of the network will be built first, and then Google Fiber will be connected to homes around Kansas City. The cable work starts today after months of surveying and measuring, as well as some negotiations around how to use the city’s utility poles.
The Kansas City Star reports that Google and the Kansas City Board of Public Utilities had some disagreement over how the network would be hung on the city’s utility poles.
The Wyandotte County government wrote the plan with an unusual stipulation that Google would be allowed to hang its cables for free, using part of the poles typically reserved for utility companies to hang their own communication cables, not for third parties. Phone and cable companies typically use a lower part of the pole, and they pay a fee to do so.
The special installation for Google would also have required more specialized crews, so it would be more costly. The Star’s source says that Google will opt to pay the regular fees like any third-party provider.
Google says the later stages of this experiment will reach over 500,000 people. Google has promised competitive prices for residential Internet service, but it hasn’t been specific yet.
Why Is Google Becoming An ISP?
Google’s not just doing this to collect Internet bills from homes. When the Internet gets faster, Google’s whole business benefits. Google wants to test new, bandwidth-intensive “killer apps” to see what kinds of future services it can provide. But even for normal Web services, speed benefits Google. Put bluntly, the faster your Internet, the more Google ads you can see. That’s why Google search and the Chrome browser are so dang fast.
Google refers to this Google Fiber project as an “experiment,” so don’t get too excited about 1-gigabit fiber in your neighborhood just yet (unless you’re in Kansas City). But as Google said in its initial announcement, there are big implications for testing this out in the U.S. The country isn’t even in the top 10 for average connection speed. Google wants to push U.S. Internet infrastructure forward.
As for Kansas City, with these kinds of speeds, there’s sure to be a boom in next-generation Internet start-ups.
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Three tips to boost your PPC marketing campaigns in 2012 – Internet Marketing News
Feb 6th
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Three tips to boost your PPC marketing campaigns in 2012
Internet Marketing News However you need to be more subtle than simply saying, for example, “you have won a smartphone – claim it in the next 60 seconds” – as most pop-up ads do. News brought to you by ClickThrough – experts in SEO, PPC, Multilingual Search Marketing and … Internet Marketing Going to be Essential for Web Marketing Success ClickXPosure, Chicago's Fast-Growing Internet Marketer Celebrates Big Move |
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ClickXPosure, Chicago’s Fast-Growing Internet Marketer Celebrates Big Move – PR Web (press release)
Feb 6th
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ClickXPosure, Chicago's Fast-Growing Internet Marketer Celebrates Big Move
PR Web (press release) Chicago-based ClickXPosure, specializing in online marketing including SEO, PPC moves into a new, larger office to balance growing client list. Chicago-based ClickXPosure, the online marketing division of OneIMS, a premier web design and marketing … Internet Marketing Going to be Essential for Web Marketing Success |
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Since 2009, Mobile Internet Usage Has Doubled Every Year
Feb 6th
The growth of the mobile Web is on a steady rise. While pundits throw around words like “explosive” and “outrageous” the more precise word is probably “consistent.” According to analytics firm StatCounter, users accessing the Web through mobile devices has almost doubled every year since 2009. In its latest report, StatCounter says that global Internet usage through mobile devices rose to 8.5%, nearly doubling the 2011 figure of 4.3%.
StatCounter’s analytics only include cellphones, excluding tablets from the mix. The global leader in mobile Web use is Nokia at nearly 40% of usage. The firm believes that Nokia’s global dominance is due to high penetration in emerging markets like India. Apple is a strong No. 2 globally, while leading use in the United Kingdom and the United States.
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Since 2009, the rate of mobile Internet use has consistently doubled every year. See the chart on the right. The global numbers reaffirm what we already know: the use of the mobile Web is permeating the everyday existence of people around the world. Developers and business can look at the numbers and be assured that the decision to go “mobile first” will eventually be the right choice. Companies that have built the foundation for success on the mobile Web now will be the future leaders of the space, from advertising to software deployment and every space in between.
While Nokia is the global leader, the strength of Apple is clear. With about 28.76% of use, Apple nearly doubles the next closest competitor, Samsung, by about 14%. If you take all the Android OEMs listed (Samsung, HTC, LG, Sony, Motorola and Sony Ericsson and “Google”), the Android OEMs make up about 24.72% of global mobile Internet usage.
Research In Motion fell about 10% from Jan. 2011 to Jan. 2012 from 18.15% to 8.3%. That is indicative of the global fall of BlackBerry sales and usage. In the U.K., BlackBerry remains the No. 2 device, behind Apple.
In North America, Apple has an astonishing lead in mobile Internet use, with 59.11%. No other OEM comes close, with Samsung holding the No. 2 spot at 11.43% and RIM third at 10.06%.
It is difficult to ascertain Apple’s dominance of the mobile Internet access. For most of 2011, Android devices outsold Apple’s iPhone globally and in the U.S. The end of the year rise is understandable as both of the U.S.’s largest carriers, AT&T and Verizon, boasted strong iPhone sales in comparison to Android, but after a year of eye-popping numbers, the Android ecosystem has not made a dent in iPhone sales in this metric. It could be attributed to user behavior or device/mobile browser performance or any of several sociological phenomena.
Outside of OEM share, one thing is clear: the mobile Internet is changing the way people access information. If history holds true, then more than one in every six Internet users in the world will be accessing the Web through cellphones by Jan. 2013.
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