A major 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on 12 January, causing major casualties and damage. The quake was followed by several aftershocks with magnitudes over 5.0.
Italian writer, blogger and photographer Vincenzo Cosenza has put together a visualization showing the most popular social networks around the world on a map, based on recent traffic data (December 2009).
An international team of experts have mapped a huge, incredibly old location, mentioned in the notes of a Russian explorer from half a century ago, buried under hundreds of meters of ice.
A map that shows the average rates and speeds of Internet connections worldwide. We notice very quickly that Japan and Korea have an edge but also that France is doing very well.
What challenges are we going to face in the next 10 years? And what kind of ideas are going to help us in overcoming them? Even though predicting the future is not a game, a game is exactly what the Institute for the Future used to answer these dilemmas
The Moon, in fact, has water in all sorts of places: not just locked up in minerals, but scattered throughout the broken-up surface, and, potentially, in blocks or sheets of ice at depth.
The Web Trend Map plots the leading Internet names onto the Tokyo Metro System. The domains and personalities are carefully selected trough dialogue with map enthusiasts. Each domain is evaluated based on traffic, revenue, age, owner and character.
