Bunkr is a new way of making presentations. It's an online tool. You can easily collect articles, images, videos, quotes from the web. You can make and organize a whole collection online of images, videos, etc. You can export your presentation as powerpoint of pdf or you can present online on all kind of devices. We have create a HTML5 presentation format: lighter, faster and no installation required. Say goodbye too heavy presentations that cannot be sent by email. Bunkr HTML5 presentation: simple to share and readable on all devices There's a 45 days free trial so probably in the end will .....read more »

Designer Ruben van der Vleuten was curious about the shipping process, so he did what anyone would do. He installed a camera in a cardboard box and shipped it to himself. Below is a time-lapse video of the package's journey. Interesting experiment. Enjoy the video and music, thanks to FlowingData ..read more »

Lovely video made about understanding music, al animated and well done. Music is a good thing. But what we did not know until we started with the research for this piece: Music is also a pretty damn complex thing. This experimental animation is about the attempt to understand all the parts and bits of it. Have a look. You might agree with our conclusion! Thanks Boing Boing ..read more »

This is a hilarious and excellent reaction on a facebook post made by a man. He complains about the advertisement of Bodyform, a sanitary napkin company. He was disappointed to find out the period wasn't always so happy as depicted in the commercials by Bodyform. He didn't get the metaphor. His comment went viral as noticed on mashable. Watch the excellent response by the company, by the way, the company doesn't have a CEO called Caroline Williams. ..read more »

From those I normally speak about Facebook most of them use Facebook to keep track of their children and/or grandchildren. A Facebook group of medical students mostly use the group during exam periods. In a recent article the authors did a systematic review. They selected 42 articles evidence-based studies on factors contributing to Facebook use. All of these studies examined a population sampled from undergraduate and graduate schools. These studies do not represent those Facebook users that mostly use it to keep track of their relatives. After a description of all the possibilities with Facebook they started with the sociodemographic variables .....read more »

Interesting figures from jefbullas.com. These are the facts and figures from Twitter, my favorite microblogging platform. In this post he present figures and statistics for seven major social networks with embedded infographics for each social media network. ..read more »

Very funny talk Oops! Nobody wants to see the 404: Page Not Found. But as Renny Gleeson shows us, while he runs through a slideshow of creative and funny 404 pages, every error is really a chance to build a better relationship. ..read more »

Short cartoon video on the subject of deduction by computers of your friends, habits and messages in order to read your mind Think you can hide your personal data by choosing not to reveal information online? Even if you're a social media prude, advanced software algorithms can glean a surprising amount of detail about your life. For example, even though most people on Facebook choose not to reveal their physical addresses, it's possible to infer the general location of the majority of users based on the few who do. Similar software can figure out who is likely to be your friend and .....read more »

An interesting article in PLos One on an online networking service that is very popular in The Netherlands. It has a relatively large proportion of the population as members. The author used a dataset obtained from this Dutch service: Hyves. Some interesting results from this extensive data analyses. Young people roughly between 10 and 25 years of age are overrepresented as a share of the population, more demographic facts can be found in the free accessible article published in PLos One The structure of the Hyves network follows the regularities found in other large complex networks. This can be summarized as two different .....read more »

Found an excellent guide about this subject, readily available as pdf on the Internet. This guide answers questions, showing you how to get started on Twitter and showing you how Twitter can be used as a resource for research, teaching and impact activities. It's short and descriptive and practical. Not for experienced twitter users but for beginners or those who don't know how to use twitter in academia. You can download this small pdf here.... You can read more about this guide on Impact of Social Sciences. ..read more »