International Visualizing Famine in the Horn of Africa [Infographic] The famine eating up northeast Africa and threatening 13 million people is probably something you've seen out of the corner of your eye. A terrible thing, to be sure, but life goes on. Well, for some. Now, the World Food Programme has pulled open data from the United Nations, USAID and their own food distribution program and used mapping technology… Curt Hopkins View comments
Google Google Maps Comes to New Country Domains Google Maps announced today that it has just become available on over 40 new top-level country domains, including Mongolia, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Venezuela and more. Country domains are an important point of access for users around the world, since the languages and results can be customized to suit the specific audience. Google Maps is now available… Jon Mitchell View comments
Trends How To Direct Your Business Videos Like Wes Anderson One of my favorite film directors is Wes Anderson, who has made some very quirky movies over his career, including Rushmore, Hotel Chevalier and The Royal Tenenbaums (from which our opening icon is taken). This week, the video hosting site Wistia posted a piece here that points out some of his trademark directing moves that you too can… Enterprise David Strom View comments
Design Twitter Open Sources Web App Tool-kit Twitter has had a complicated relationship with its sprawling developer ecosystem but made a big move this morning to provide independent developers a fast, lightweight, attractive and consistent tool-kit that can be used to implement the front end of web applications. It's called Bootstrap and the company said today that it "uses some of the… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Multimedia Web Video Streaming to Explode That streaming videos makes up a huge percentage of the Internet's traffic is by now well-known. Netflix alone makes up nearly 30% of all downstream traffic and we're now accustomed to hearing about the extraordinary amount of bandwidth eaten up by videos streaming during major news events. For example, during President Obama's inauguration… Play John Paul Titlow View comments