26 Aug 2009
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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.
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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.
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