Reposted from sixrevisions.

Font and color choices in a website say certain things about the owner of the site. Though colors and symbols may have different meanings in other cultures, this only reaffirms the notion that design choices do affect the perception of the user, which in turn affects the message attempting to be conveyed.

Here is an infographic that delves into the meanings of fonts and colors in the context of web design.

Reposted from infographicsshowcase.com

Ever wondered about the nuts and bolts of the credit card charging process? This graphic describes exactly what happens when you hand a cashier a credit card and he or she swipes it.

The machine immedately checks to ensure the customer has enough money in their account. The computer looks up information about the customer to verify that everything is copacetic. No money is being transferred for the first few seconds of the transaction, just info about the patron. After the check is complete, the money begins its slow crawl toward the merchant’s bank account. It’s so slow in fact that the money transfer is actually spread over a few days. The total gateway fees aren’t even collected until the end of the month.

According to the stats, a typical transaction of $100 will net the merchant about $96 after all the fees have been tallied up.

This infographic, created by allareacodes.com, provides a humorous look at the seven main types of iphone owners. So, who are they?

This well-polished graphic breaks it down for you:

The Fanboy:  You know what’s funny? There are 70 million iphone users and, yet, only a small handful are true-blue fan boys and girls. These are the perpetually loyal people who endorse every Apple decision, cling to Steve Job’s every word, and wake up at 3 am in the morning to go stand in line (correction: camp in line) at the Apple store on the day of a new product launch.

The Unappreciative: The graphic portrays this figure as a young woman who doesn’t understand the vast power of the iphone. She doesn’t have a case, has never bought an app, wouldn’t touch one of these things with a ten foot pole, and thinks the screen on the phone is too big. Basically, this person should never have bought an iphone in the first place, and if you ask an Apple fanboy, doesn’t deserve to own one.

The Over-User: The over-user is that person on line at a drug store typing away on his phone instead of noticing that it’s his turn to approach the counter. Or he’s that guy sitting in his car who didn’t notice that the light had changed because he was playing with an app on his phone. And we know what happens to people don’t notice that lights change don’t we? Bad things. Awful things really, if the lyrics in The Beatles’ “A Day in the Life” are any indication. Don’t be an overuser. Horrid things may happen to you.

The Desk Job: The graphic portrays this character as the quintessential yuppie who, like the “The Unappreciative,” probably shouldn’t own an iphone in the first place. They only use it as a glorified mp3 player at the gym or when they’re jogging through a public park. You see, the “Desk Job” only owns an iphone so he can show it off to people.

The Hacker: This person can start their car, turn on their microwave, and make jets take off and fly to France and back all with a few strokes of their iphone keypad. To script kitties, this person is a demagogue.

The Senior Citizen: Gramps got a phone. And he doesn’t know how to use it. And he won’t stop asking you (or anyone nearby) questions about it. Oh, and when you’re not looking, Grandpa somehow figures out how to jailbreak it.

The Complainer: You know those personality types who are only happy when they’re unhappy? Well, these people exist in every walk of life. They moan and moan about the iphone for hours and how they’re getting rid, then break down and buy the next iphone anyway.

Just how massive is Google (in real terms) you ask? More specifically, how many pages are in its index?  That is the question this aesthetically pleasing infographic attempts to answer. Even though the precise number of pages in Google’s index is a closely-guarded secret, this graphic relies on math to make an educated guess at the exact number.  And that number is..(drumroll please) 40 billion.

That’s quite a lot of pages if I do say so. Google is 1,600 times the size of what it was when it began.  According to the graphic, if you were some insane loon who felt the need to display all of Google’s indexed sites on a single monitor, the screen would have to be 6 million miles from corner to corner.  So, get cracking.  It should only take you about 150 years to build such a monitor.

The graphic covers many other aspects of Google besides its index, such as gmail, youtube (which it acquired in 2006), the business side of Google, and other “stuff” (ie. random facts).  Among the fascinating tidbits, gmail’s current storage allowance is equivalent to 1.74 billion full audio CDs. Another intriguing piece of info: because there are 1.5 billion images in Google, you would need 112 million floppy disks if you wanted to store them all.  Now, here’s where its gets scary (but the good kind of scary).  Google hopes to  index about 100 petabytes of information in the near future, which is equal to half of all printed material in human history.

Reposted from Mashable. Article by Matt Silverman.

Speech is such a hassle, what with the mouth movements, facial expressions and eye contact.

History is just littered with opportunities where texting would have come in handy.

This comic was illustrated by Kiersten Essenpreis, a New York-based artist who draws and blogs at YouFail.com. For more laughs, check out our previous Mashable Comics.

Reposted from Mashable. Article by Erica Swallow.

January 27, 2010 brought the launch of Apple’s iPad tablet device — Thursday marks its first year.

Leading up to its launch, the world was all atwitter with a number of rumors — Would it be called the iSlate? When would it be released? Would it just be a giant iPhone? There was even a comprehensive picture created to document all the iPad rumors. One year later, rumors of a second generation iPad are now rampant.

Now is a great time to look back on the device’s success thus far and ponder its future. To celebrate the iPad’s first year, the folks at OnSwipe created this infographic:

Reposted from Mashable. Article by Jolie O'Dell.

It was quite in vogue last year to be incensed over the privacy-related misdeeds of a certain monolithic social network, but let’s be honest — did anyone ever read the privacy policy to begin with? How about the Terms of Service?

Most of us eagerly (or irritatedly) scroll through the miles of legalese and click on the “I Agree — Sign Me Up!” button without reading a single word of what we’re agreeing to. Most of the time, there are no negative consequences, but every now and then, not knowing what you’re getting into can end up biting you.

The website or app you’re signing up for could simply be tracking your clicks for their own internal measurement tools, but it could also be gathering data to sell to marketers and advertisers. It could be selling your contact information to a third party, as well.

So why don’t more privacy-craving consumers read the privacy policies of the apps they use?

The overwhelming answer is they’re just too long. The longest privacy policies among the top 1,000 websites would take around 45 minutes to read. The average policy takes around 10 minutes to read.

And while most of the websites (72%, in fact) allow users to opt out of tracking mechanisms, around 40% require their users to take a few extra clicks to the Network Advertising Initiative’s website to opt out.

What do you think: Should privacy policies and terms of service be short and sweet enough for users to actually read them, or do you think that would increase tracking opt-outs enough that it would hurt the companies in question?

This infographic was created by SelectOut, an ad-tracking opt-out initiative, with data collected from the top 1,000 websites as per Quantcast.

Lead image courtesy of iStockphoto, Russ Duparcq

Reposted from Mashable.Article by Charlie White.

Researchers at Lab42 did a study of social media users, surveying 400 adults earlier this month.

Using applications within Facebook and MySpace, they found out that even bigger changes are underway in TV land, and viewers are doing lot more of their TV viewing online.

In this exclusive graphic, you can see that viewers, particularly those under 34 years of age, are more willing to watch TV shows online. And, an overwhelming majority of the respondents are recording their TV shows on DVRs such as TiVo.

It’s no surprise that social media users are a lot more tuned in to video on the Internet, but the most unexpected statistic was that at least 72% of those aged 34 and younger are watching TV shows online.

Looks like that prediction we heard last year that online video will quadruple Internet traffic by 2014 might happen even sooner than expected.

According to Lab42, the 400 respondents were equally distributed across age groups and income levels.

Reposted from Mashable. Article by Lauren Indvik.

Shortly after CEO Dennis Crowley spoke at Europe’s DLD conference Monday, Foursquare announced that more than 6 million people have registered a Foursquare account. In addition, the company released an infographic celebrating its impressive growth in 2010.

The infographic highlights, among other things:

• 381,576,305 checkins were made in 2010.
• A checkin has been made in every single country in the world, plus space.
• North Korea was the last country to check in.
• The Rally to Restore Sanity on October 30 was the biggest event of the year, with 30,525 checkins made in Washington, D.C. that day.
• Food venues were the most popular checkin category in 2010; campuses were the least.
• MTV, Bravo, the History Channel, Zagat and VH1 were the most popular brand pages.
• California was the #1 state for gym checkins, relative to total checkins.

[via Foursquare]

Reposted from Mashable. Article by Jolie O'Dell.

Remember when newspapers were king? How about the golden years of radio? Or when carrier pigeons ruled the roost? These content vessels often seem like bygone relics of a simpler time.

In a charmingly illustrated infographic, we peruse the history of content, from cave paintings to the digital era’s Flipboard. A lot has happened in the time between town criers and the Kindle, but our creation and consumption of news-related content has remained a constant factor for most cultures throughout human history.

As the newspaper industry undergoes violent changes, and more and more publications optimize for modern form factors, we wonder what format content will appear in next.

Have a look at this infographic, which was created by digital marketer Philip Sheldrake and illustrator Nic Hinton, and let us know what you think the future of content holds.

Reposted from Mashable. Article by Josh Catone.

The Internet is a big place. How big? Try gigantic. The infographic above, from the folks at Focus, attempts to visually represent some of the mind-boggling numbers that defined the Internet circa 2010 — the result is certainly pretty, but still not very easy to wrap your head around.

How, for example, does one simply imagine the 2 billion videos being watched on YouTube each and every day? How is it possible that 35 hours of video can be uploaded to the site every minute? What do 36 billion photos look like? Ask Facebook; that’s how many photos are uploaded to the site each year. (More than seven times as many have been uploaded to Flickr in that site’s entire existence, by the way.)

These numbers aren’t necessarily easier to comprehend in infographic form (107 trillion e-mails?!), but they’re definitely easier to take in. If you’re not a visual learner, however, the graphic seems to be mostly based on a post earlier this month from the Royal Pingdom blog, which lists all those stats in plain text.

Reposted from Mashable. Article by Jolie O'Dell.

From the first e-mail to the domination of Facebook, social media has come a long way, baby.

Here’s a visually organized look at the past 30 years or so of social media history, from Usenet to AIM to Friendster and beyond. This particular infographic comes with some fun facts; for example, did you know that the first version of MySpace was coded in just 10 days?

Whether this is a walk down memory lane or entirely new information for you, we hope you’ll enjoy this infographic, which was created by OnlineSchools.org. You can also check out our infographics on Facebook facts, online dating and our general obsession with social media.

In the comments, tell us where you set up your first “social” online account and where or when you think social media truly began.

Lead image courtesy of Flickr, rishibando.

Reposted from infographicsshowcase.com

Ever wanted the lowdown on cloud computing stats? This graphic by Cloud Hype Market provides just that.  And what you learn by reading the graphic may shock you. You see, in the next few years, cloud computing will expand greatly.  So greatly in fact that cloud computing expenses will account for 25% of all IT department expenditure by 2012. According the graphic, most people agree that using the cloud has done the following:

• alleviated internal resource pressures
• reduced the cost of infrastructure
• decreased IT performance challenges
• improved end-user experience
• simplified the IT managment process
• improved user’s self-worth

Here’s in interesting stat for you. There are 50 million servers in the world today, and Google owns 2% of them. In time, that 2% may be 20%, and decades from now, perhaps 60% or higher.  Now, who are the principal “actors” of the cloud, as the graphic puts it? 4 companies have the most marketshare.  They are Zoho.com, Google, Rackspace, and Microsoft 365.  All of these services host mission critical apps like email and other services.

The bottom of the graphic is filled with some interesting stats. Did you know that 56% of Internet users use email services like gmail, yahoomail, and hotmail. We would have thought that it would be higher. 34% store personal photos online.  We thought that stat would have been lower. 5% pay to store files online and 5% pay to backup their hardrive online. We all sense they are only going to go higher.

Ok, this graphic isn’t actually about the entire history of online video: it only covers the past five years.

The graph first points out that 69% of Internet users download or watch video online. 61% watch movies and TV shows, and 23% download videos. The graphic then goes on to present facts that take no one by surprise. 18-29 year-olds are the heaviest consumers of Internet video. Now, here’s the all important fact.  And bad fact if you hoped that video sharing websites were going to make money. Only 4% of users pay to watch content online. Back 2007, that number, surprisingly was higher, as 7% did.

One of the intriguing stats of the graphic is the fact that 1 in 5 adults who watch online video also upload it.  That number is a bit higher than we would have expected.

Repost from Mashable:

Jolie O'Dell

Facebook profiles are like belly buttons: Everybody’s got one.

Perhaps that statement’s still a bit of an exaggeration, but by the numbers, we (that is, Internet users around the globe) are becoming more obsessed with Facebook by the day.

One out of every 13 Earthlings and three out of four Americans is on Facebook, and one out of 26 signs into Facebook on a daily basis.

We could rattle off stats like until the cows come home, but instead, we’d like to show you this fascinating infographic from SocialHype and OnlineSchools.org.

Here, in a visual nutshell, are some highlights about Facebook usage, 2010 trends, adoption numbers and a great deal more.





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Have you tried the new Beachsafe iPhone app we developed with Surf Life Saving?

Well, here are a few comments from users who find it quite useful...

"This is a great app with lots of useful features and information. But the tide times for Apollo Bay don't seem to be correct (or even close). Could you please check? Thanks," Chris

"This is excellent. With combined recreational, tidal, weather and mapping info this app is one of the most important and useful tools for anyone visiting our beaches. Along with updated beach patrol data, tide times and local conditions, this app could prove to be a lifesaver's digital buddy available to people like myself. We travel a lot to beaches for fishing, snorkeling, swimming and body boarding. Sometimes, beach info is not available so we have to take a degree of risk or avoid certain places. It's difficult to recognize rips also. So, this app is most useful. However, I think it should be stressed that such an app is continually supported with accurate data and should be used in conjunction with traditional beach services (and not as a stand alone resource for beach safety info). A fantastic app. Thank you."

"Great app thx. Would appreciate info on Catherine Hill Bay NSW if possible."

"This app is so good when ever I am going down for training or Nippers I know just what the beach is going to look like also I would like to know if you could make a blue book app for iPod touch and iPhone because it is pretty expensive and it would be easier to access all the different chapters thank you again so much for this awesome app."

"This application is fantastic! I started out wondering what the tide was doing one day and downloaded Beachsafe after searching through free tide apps in Australia, this is one of the most useful resources I have on my phone, patrols, forecasts, UV, etc- It's all there, as well as photos - great for the tourist and local alike. Well-done Surf Lifesaving!"

Click here to download the Beachsafe app for your iPhone, it's free...

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Today Facebook was valued at 50 billion dollars. Here it is in perspective with a few other Internet companies as put together by TheNextWeb with graphic supplied by @Boris.