26 Aug 2009 Showcases Crowdsourcing, Google, Mapping, Traffic

Google just launched a new and exciting feature for GoogleMaps: traffic conditions on highways and arterial roads. The simple and very usable display works well in conjunction with Google's way of gathering the data: crowd sourcing. Read more
07 Aug 2009 Showcases Internet, Network, Social, Traffic

Today Twitter was down for some time which led to quite a bit confusion and discussion. What happened? The consensus is that it was a DDoS that caused the downtime of the poular social network. Back in 2007 WIRED has created a visualization on how a Denial of Service attack works. Read more