Icons of the Web
A sea of favicons, presented proportional to the sum of reach of sites using it; http://j.mp/Webicons (via @VizWorld)
First existential crisis of the Net: the impossibility of erasing your posted past and moving on; http://j.mp/amPXhp
Do you know what happened in your birth year? Nice mashup by Philipp Lenssen: http://j.mp/YourBirthYear (via @tsaijie)
Nielsen: Social networks and blogs now account for 1 in every 4 1/2 minutes online; http://j.mp/c7LBYu
PediaPress offers books (print or free PDF) from Wikipedia and MediaWikis with Collection Extension; http://j.mp/PediaPress
Who really killed media? Craig Newmark (Craigslist)? Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia)? Oprah Winfrey? http://j.mp/aYbBbP
Soziale Netzwerke legen in 2009 auch in Deutschland kräftig zu: Facebook zieht mit +184% weit davon; http://j.mp/d6rkzo
Google has built the Custom Search Wikipedia Skin, offering contextual search within Wikipedia; http://j.mp/q9Zdp
Eugene Kim, Blue Oxen Associates, has been hired to come up with a strategic plan for Wikipedia; http://bit.ly/17G0ao
Is there really something wrong with Wikipedia? Aitken assesses some of the problems; http://bit.ly/dfinj
Gerrit Eicker 09:14 on 27. August 2010 Permalink |
NMAP: “A large-scale scan of the top million web sites (per Alexa traffic data) was performed in early 2010 using the Nmap Security Scanner and its scripting engine. As seen in the New York Times, Slashdot, Gizmodo, Engadget, and Telegraph.co.uk … – We retrieved each site’s icon by first parsing the HTML for a link tag and then falling back to /favicon.ico if that failed. 328,427 unique icons were collected, of which 288,945 were proper images. The remaining 39,482 were error strings and other non-image files. Our original goal was just to improve our http-favicon.nse script, but we had enough fun browsing so many icons that we used them to create the visualization below. – The area of each icon is proportional to the sum of the reach of all sites using that icon. When both a bare domain name and its “www.” counterpart used the same icon, only one of them was counted. The smallest icons – those corresponding to sites with approximately 0.0001% reach – are scaled to 16×16 pixels. The largest icon (Google) is 11,936 x 11,936 pixels, and the whole diagram is 37,440 x 37,440 (1.4 gigapixels).“