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.