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Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap’s objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe.
www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/index.cfm

Nothing interesting seems to be going at the moment, but hopefully it will be interesting in the future. They could improve the look and feel of the blog as well, after all they are Adobe ;) blogs.adobe.com

RICHMOND, Va. - A rush to purchase $50 used laptops turned into a violent stampede Tuesday, with people getting thrown to the pavement, beaten with a folding chair and nearly driven over. One woman went so far as to wet herself rather than surrender her place in line.

People threw themselves forward, screaming and pushing each other. A little girl’s stroller was crushed in the stampede. Witnesses said an elderly man was thrown to the pavement, and someone in a car tried to drive his way through the crowd. via msnbc

Feedster has launched their own Top 500 Blogs List, and the top 3 are: Engadget (54,380 links), deviantART.com (53,788 links), and Boing Boing (36,229 links) check the rest top500.feedster.com

MyBookmarks is a free Internet service that allows you to keep your browser bookmarks and favorites online so you can access them from anywhere. www.mybookmarks.com

British researchers suggest it’s not just a Web site’s subject or function that determines whether it will draw more men or women. The appearance of the site also might play a subtle role.

Not surprisingly, male subjects tended to assign higher ratings to pages designed by men, and females preferred sites made by women. But the researchers said they gleaned important tidbits by looking more closely at the ratings.

Women seemed to like pages with more color in the background and typeface. Women also favored informal rather than posed pictures.

Men responded better to dark colors and straight, horizontal lines across a page. They also were more pleased by a three-dimensional look and images of “self-propelling” rather than stationary objects.

via CNN