The Cost of Tweets (CO2 Emissions)

According to data from Twitter, published in February 2010, every day around 50 million tweets are sent over the popular micro blogging platform. What’s the cost in terms of CO2 emission of tweets sent daily on Twitter?

10 Useful Frameworks To Develop HTML-Based Webapps for Touch Devices

Here is a collection of some useful frameworks to develop easily HTML-based webapps that will work on all popular smartphone and tablet touch platforms.

Best Practices To Design a Perfect HTML Navigation Bar

The navigation bar is an inevitable element in every website. In this post I want to share with you some simple practices and suggestions aimed at designing a perfect HTML navigation bar.

The State of Social Location-Based Services

Sharing its own position over a map, unlock badges and earn points using this kind of services it’s an activity that involves and appeals to more and more people.
In the challenge between Foursquare and Gowalla, Foursquare leads with over 2.5 millions active users and with an average daily growth of 19,000 daily users in the last month.

Popular Tools To Measure Your Influence on Twitter

Are you a popular person on Twitter? What’s the grade of you social influence? Here is a list of tools to measure it.

How-To: Add a Custom Home Screen and Web Clip Icon To Your iOS Device

Ever wonder how some sites get awesome icons when added to your iOS device home screen?
The answer is incredibly easy, yet there are a couple of tricks that will help you get the best from the use of a simple image.

Google Buzz Is the Next Google Flop

Google Buzz strives to take off, because it never left a real mark in users’ hearts. Will they shut it down like they did with Wave?

Foursquare and Social CRM

Foursquare is not only a powerful geo-location service but also a way to integrate the social dynamics triggered inside its network for a larger Social CRM strategy. In this article we will decline Foursquare features into the seven business objectives proposed by Altimeter Social CRM framework.

The iPhone 4 is Available in Italy but the Price Is Embarrassingly High

From yesterday morning Apple’s new iPhone 4 is finally available in Italy. But the price is embarrassingly high.

iPad: Satisfaction or Disappointment?

A success story starring many enthusiasts and a few disappointed. The tablet that’s not for everyone.

10 Stunning Movie Websites

Here is a selection of the ten best websites for movies of the current and past season that deserve to be added to your bookmarks as a source of inspiration in the field.

The Gulf Oil Spill: 88 Days Later

An infographic with the timeline of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico 88 days after the disaster.

The Cost of Spam: CO2 Emissions

According to data from a recent study by Commtouch (Internet Threats Trend Report) published in April 2010 and referring to the first quarter of the year, every day we send about 221 billion email messages, of which 183 billion are classified as spam (85% of the total traffic globally).

Lists are overrated

Let’s face it. Sometimes a nice list with “X” (where X is an integer between 5 and infinity) of the most interesting things you can find about a certain subject is what you feel you need for your readers.

Internet Censorship Report

It is one of the instruments used by governments to filter out unwanted information and to prevent the spread through the World Wide Web. It is a phenomenon of staggering proportions that affects over 25% of the global population.

Read more