Gapminder

Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels. They're a modern “museum” that helps making the world understandable, using the Internet.

Twitter Tools


Here's a list with 27 Twitter tools, to help you find more followers, manage them, find who doesn’t follow you back, who stops following, statistics and much, much more.

RotorBlog

RotorBlog.com was founded in May 2006 by Maris Dagis in order to provide latest Web 2.0 news and startup reviews, later focusing on social networks and online communications. Reaching 160k readers monthly it has became one of the most popular sources of information for people using Internet to communicate.

The homeless stay wired


Mr. Pitts lacks a mailing address, but he's got a computer and a web forum.

Bing

Microsoft Bing: Much better than expected.

Google Wonder Wheel: Exploring Related Keyword Search Queries



Somehow feeling guilty this has not surfaced on infosthetics before, but here it is anyway. Google recently introduced its so-called Wonder Wheel [google.com] as an addition to its normal results page. Read the rest of the article here...don't miss the YouTube video about Wonder Wheel.

Can Boxee's Web Software Capture More TV Screens?


The streaming video startup has charmed Apple and Linux users and alarmed networks and cable providers. Now Boxee aims to serve Windows.

10 Commandments of PowerPoint

One of the unavoidable things about college, and increasingly work life, is PowerPoint. Most of us have, at one point or another, had to slap some slides together and give a presentation to our friends, family, class, co-workers, or boss.

Office 2010

Microsoft is set to launch an invitation-only Technical Preview Program of the new Office in July.

Okimok

A free real-time social network platform that allows users to instantly share photos from your iPhone with friends by using a superdeluxe slideshow. Install the iPhone App, upload your photos and watch your photo stream online. Twitter settings available too.

Google adds new filters, visualized results

Google introduced three new enhancements to its search engine, giving searchers new ways to filter results and adding new types of data to the search results themselves.

New search engines aspire to supplement Google

Google dominates the search world, but some sites are trying to expand the possibilities. And, despite what you may think, Google is not the only player.



New search engines that are popping up across the Web strive to make searches faster, smarter, more personal and more visually interesting.

Peek

Not every gadget needs a carnival of features. Take the Peek, which tackles just a single task: mobile email. No phone, no browser, no camera—and no apologies. It won't satisfy convergence-rabid smartphone fetishists, but for the rest of the world (i.e., the majority of it), this one-trick pony is a godsend.

Kiss your phone bill good-bye



Silicon Valley startup Ooma wants to help you connect your home electronics for cheap - starting with your phone.

Next best thing to "teleporting"?

Tech companies push "telepresence" videoconferences as substitute for air travel, but prices deter widespread adoption.

The Future of Healthcare...its in your hand(set)

Cell phones changed everything in emerging markets. Isolated communities got a taste of access and upward mobility they’d never known before. Entire economies shifted as people were able to leapfrog roadblocks to communication. Now mobile technology is promising to transform healthcare in the same way.

Akamai is a key partner in TED's mission to share Ideas Worth Spreading.

Akamai's rich media management, dynamic transaction, and application acceleration services, quite simply, help build the backbone of the Internet. Watch 5 videos about cloud computing and Akamai's core technologies.

Flackr

Breaking news as it comes in.

Death of the Hydrogen Economy

Obama's budget puts hydrogen fuel-cell research out of its misery--almost.

Twitter...the new business card?

Is the traditional paper business card on the way out? You judge.

Is Real-time the Future of the Web?

It’s clear that the Web has altered how we as a society consume information. Not only has Internet communication made information more accessible, but social media has made it easier to organize, filter, and most of all, create. Watch the video below and then read the article.

Twitter Inventor About To Launch His Next Project, Code-named Squirrel

Co-founder and current Chairman Jack Dorsey sent out a tweet letting his followers know that he was, “Getting ready to embark on something new and entirely different. Excited!”

Wolfram Alpha shows data in a way Google can't

Wolfram Alpha is like a cross between a research library, a graphing calculator, and a search engine. But does Wolfram Research's "computational knowledge engine," set to debut publicly later this month, live up to its hype as a Web site that Google needs to be afraid of?

Seesmic CEO on the business of Twitter

Seesmic Desktop, as we've written previously, is the successor to the popular Twitter/Friendfeed client Twhirl. It looks like it will be very competitive to TweetDeck soon, although it has a few UI glitches at the moment.

Read CNET article

Kindle DX

Meet the new Kindle by Amazon.

The future is going to be very exciting

The head of Google's new university, Ray Kurzweil believes the advance of technology will solve the energy crisis, upgrade the human genome and even lead to everlasting life - no wonder he is so optimistic.

Meet Cisco, the Consumer Company



With its recent acquisitions, it's positioning itself to be a big player in home entertainment.

The Man Who Made Gmail Says Real-Time Conversation is What's Next



Paul Buchheit built the first version of Gmail in one day. Then, he built the first prototype of Google's contextual advertising service, Adsense, in one day as well. Now, he's working on a much-watched startup called FriendFeed that he believes just brought to market the next big form of communication online: flowing, multi-person, real-time conversations.

Read article here.

TEDIndia 2009 -- The Future Beckons

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TEDIndia 2009 offers a vision of the future that's rich with invention, entrepreneurship and sensory delight. In a country that’s reinventing itself – and reshaping the world … Learn more here >>

Reach out and ping someone

Wireless phone companies still reap the lion's share of their revenue from calls, but they're pinning their hopes on fast-growing data services.

Skywrite.me

This is a new take on microblogging where your short messages are displayed as a sky written message over cities. Its a really fun and interesting way to show off your messages.

Kickstarter



A funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, entrepreneurs, athletes, inventors, bloggers, philanthropists, explorers and more.

FairSpin lets you see all the top political news from left to right. Click on titles to read stories, decide for yourself if they are biased, then vote your mind. Every vote makes FairSpin more accurate and useful.

What browser wars? The enterprise still loves IE 6

This news may come as a shocker to the tech-savvy folks in the house, but 60 percent of companies use Internet Explorer 6 as their default browser, according to Forrester Research.

Quicken Online gets iPhone companion app

Intuit has just released a handy, free iPhone app to accompany its free online financial service, Quicken Online.

Preview all your fonts

Depending on how much design work you've done, and what kind of software you're using, you probably have some idea of which fonts you have installed and what they look like. If you don't, there's a wonderfully simple Web app called Flipping Typical that gives you a WYSIWYG heads up of all of them at once.

50 million by Summer

As expected when it released its US figures earlier this month, Comscore's latest stats show thatTwitter continues its march forward with an estimated 20 million users worldwide.

According to TechCrunch, if Twitter can keep this up then it should be at 50 million odd users by the Summer, after which point it would well and truly no longer be 'niche.'