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E-mails. News. Facebook. Wikipedia. Do you feel ever feel that there’s just too much information? Do you struggle to keep up with important issues, subject and ideas? Are you drowning in data?

In this age of information overload, a new solution is emerging that could help us cope with the oceans of data surrounding and swamping us. It’s called information visualisation.

The approach is simple: apply the rules of visual design to information – make information into images, rather than text.

from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8381597.stm
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The Google Translate Tool is available from http://translate.google.com/translate_tools. To use it:

1. Choose your website language.
2. Choose to translate to all supported languages or a specific selection.
3. Copy the code provided into your web page.

Like most translation tools, a drop-down list of supported languages is provided on your page in the location where the code was pasted.

However, if your browser is set to a default language other than the one you’re viewing, a translation bar automatically appears at the top of the page. The bar is provided in the visitor’s language and offers a one-click translation process.

The Google translation tool supports over 50 languages. Even Welsh.

Example page is here http://blogs.sitepointstatic.com/examples/tech/translate/index.html

more about Google translate tool – http://translate.google.com/translate_tools

#1. en.wikipedia.org (1)
#2. youtube.com (3)
#3. flickr.com (2)
#4. twitter.com (9)
#5. google.com (4)
#6. myspace.com (6)
#7. facebook.com (-)
#8. imdb.com (5)
#9. nytimes.com (7)
#10. apple.com (8)

There is one new entrant, Facebook at #7. washingtonpost.com moved out of the top 10, dropping from #10 last year to #12 this year.

Twitter is the biggest mover, up 5 places to #4.

Wikipedia is still the most cited website on the Web, for social media users and bloggers. YouTube and Flickr, two oft-used media sharing services, occupy the next two spots.

Last year we noted that there were 10 independent blogs in the top 100, including ReadWriteWeb. There are the same number this year, with a couple of new entrants. Here is the blog list circa November ‘09, again with last year’s rank bracketed:

#23 techcrunch.com (#25)
#26 huffingtonpost.com (#32)
#33 engadget.com (#28)
#37 boingboing.net (#29)
#39 gizmodo (-)
#41 mashable.com (#91)
#53 arstechnica.com (#50)
#60 lifehacker.com (#63)
#78 readwriteweb.com (#97)
#93 smashing magazine (-)

Read more http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_most_influential_websites_in_the_world.php#comment-170572

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ReadWriteWeb is a popular weblog that provides Web Technology news, reviews and analysis, covering web apps, web technology trends, etc.

One of the world’s top 20 blogs, ReadWriteWeb speaks to an intelligent audience of web enthusiasts, early adopters and innovators.

ReadWriteWeb was founded on April 20, 2003 by Richard MacManus and is now one of the most widely read and respected blogs in the world. It is written by a team of Web enthusiasts. To contact ReadWriteWeb about new Web technologies, apps or services

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Twitter Novels are one use of Twitter that many of us would never consider – but there’s a growing number of Twitter Novelists exploring the medium. Today Brandon J. Mendelson, author of The Falcon Can Hear The Falconer (a Twitter Novel) gives some tips for writing Twitter Novels.

A word of caution: As far as English language Twitter novels go, this is new territory. Based on early results, as compiled by ReadWriteWeb, there have not been any success stories. RWW never spelled out what would be defined as a success, but I took their comments to assume no Twitter novelists have crossed into the mainstream or made money. It may be only a matter of time before this changes.

What I’m presenting here are suggestions on how to write and operate your new Twitter novel based on my experience writing “The Falcon Can Hear The Falconer”. I hope what I’m proposing will provide a blueprint for interested writers to create successful Twitter novels.

from http://www.twitip.com/how-to-start-a-twitter-novel/

Instead of sentence by sentence, I’m now twittering just the topic sentences for each paragraph. The reason: To get people engaged, the sentence has to state a position and ask for information. A sentence that simply documents a point doesn’t lead to anything. So people are providing the answers for each paragraph themselves.

I’ve done four sentences. Will try to digest it all by tomorrow morning, write the top of the draft, post it, and resume the Twitter exercis
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Additional analysis on some of the technologies and trends at the Peak of Inflated Expectations that will reach the plateau in two to five years are included below:

Cloud Computing. As enterprises seek to consume their IT services in the most cost-effective way, interest is growing in drawing a broad range of services (for example, computational power, storage and business applications) from the “cloud,” rather than from on-premises equipment. The levels of hype around cloud computing in the IT industry are deafening, with every vendor expounding its cloud strategy and variations, such as private cloud computing and hybrid approaches, compounding the hype.

E-Book Readers. Sony’s e-book reader and Amazon’s Kindle have attracted a great deal of attention during 2009. However, the devices still suffer from proprietary file formats and digital rights management technologies, which along with price, are limiting their adoption and will drive them into the Trough of Disillusionment.

The following have tipped just past the Peak of Inflated Expectations:

Social Software Suites. Awareness of social technology is high because of the popularity of related consumer social software and Web 2.0 services. Within businesses, there is strong and rapidly growing evidence of experimentation and early production deployments. The movement from point tools to integrated suites has brought broader adoption but also high expectations. Disillusionment is beginning based on the realization that, even with a suite, much work must be done to build an effective social software deployment.

Microblogging. Microblogging, in general, and Twitter, in particular, have exploded in popularity during 2009 to the extent that the inevitable disillusionment around “channel pollution” is beginning. As microblogging becomes a standard feature in enterprise social software platforms, it is earning its place alongside other channels (for example, e-mail, blogging and wikis), enabling new kinds of fast, witty, easy-to-assimilate exchanges.

the Presidential search process which will commence in the near future. The Board wishes to move ahead with this process expeditiously so that all constituencies in the University community will have an opportunity to provide input before the end of the winter semester.

The process will be aided by the use of an executive search firm. The last presidential search was assisted by the firm of Ray and Berndtson. After consideration, the Board has chosen to use Ray and Berndtson again for the upcoming search.

Between now and when the Presidential Search Committee meets in early December, Ray and Berndtson will begin preparing a Position Profile to be put forward for review and approval by the Search Committee. To this end, the consultants will meet with members of the University community and external stakeholders to seek input into the Position Profile. The consultants will also take steps to advertise the position. Once applications are received, the Search Committee will confidentially consider those applications.

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 If you’re a lazy marketer with lots of money on your hands, you’re in luck.  Last week the Southern California-based startup Ad.ly launched the first in-stream advertising platform for Twitter. That means that you can now setup an account on Ad.ly.com, find a few Twitterers whose streams you’d like your marketing message Tweeted from, then make them an offer. If they accept it, your tweet will be published in their stream once a day for a week.