Taming Data » 2010 http://tamingdata.com exploring the data deluge | one byte at a time Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:06:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Google Zeitgeist 2010: Year in Review http://tamingdata.com/2010/12/30/google-zeitgeist-2010-year-in-review/ http://tamingdata.com/2010/12/30/google-zeitgeist-2010-year-in-review/#comments Thu, 30 Dec 2010 05:15:07 +0000 Jewel Ward http://tamingdata.com/?p=621 Google employees put together this video of the struggles, achievements, deaths, milestones, deaths, heroes, and other major “etceteras” that made 2010 the year it was. I hope you enjoy this review of the past year.

Is there any information you would add to or subtract from this montage of 2010?

]]> http://tamingdata.com/2010/12/30/google-zeitgeist-2010-year-in-review/feed/ 0 YouTube Rewind 2010: Year in Review http://tamingdata.com/2010/12/29/youtube-rewind-2010-year-in-review/ http://tamingdata.com/2010/12/29/youtube-rewind-2010-year-in-review/#comments Wed, 29 Dec 2010 05:15:46 +0000 Jewel Ward http://tamingdata.com/?p=628 What were the most popular videos on YouTube in 2010 across all categories? Employees at YouTube put together this compilation of the greatest hits of 2010, below.

You can watch all of the top 10 videos, as well as other video hits of the year, via a timeline of the year 2010 at youtube.com/rewind. The top hits of the year by subject are available at youtube-trends.blogspot.com/.

Enjoy!

Do you have any favorites that were posted/created in 2010 but that did not make any of these lists?

]]> http://tamingdata.com/2010/12/29/youtube-rewind-2010-year-in-review/feed/ 0 Save the Children’s Retrospective of the Year 2010 http://tamingdata.com/2010/12/28/save-the-childrens-retrospective-of-the-year-2010/ http://tamingdata.com/2010/12/28/save-the-childrens-retrospective-of-the-year-2010/#comments Tue, 28 Dec 2010 05:15:52 +0000 Jewel Ward http://tamingdata.com/?p=626 Did any good news come out of the natural and political disasters of 2010? Save the Children thinks so.

The video below is the organization’s take on their work in 2010. I hope it makes you smile.

Good work and positive news often goes unnoticed by the mass media.

Which of the projects stood out to you?

]]> http://tamingdata.com/2010/12/28/save-the-childrens-retrospective-of-the-year-2010/feed/ 0 2010 — the Year Mobile Connected the World http://tamingdata.com/2010/12/27/2010-the-year-mobile-connected-the-world/ http://tamingdata.com/2010/12/27/2010-the-year-mobile-connected-the-world/#comments Mon, 27 Dec 2010 05:15:34 +0000 Jewel Ward http://tamingdata.com/?p=624 I’ve only had a smart phone for 10 months, and yet I cannot imagine how I lived without it. Therefore, for your viewing pleasure, I have posted this animation from themobilefuture on the mobile phone in the year 2010. The animation is by http://www.istrategylabs.com.

The authors cite the following statistics (sources not listed):

Massive increase in apps downloaded:
- FIVE BILLION apps downloaded – up from 300 million in 2009

Whopping expansion of location-based services
- FIVE MILLION Foursquare users — up from 200,000 users in 2009

Surge in mobile social media platforms
- 347 PERCENT growth in Twitter mobile usage
- 200 MILLION mobile Facebook Users
- 100 MILLION YouTube videos played on mobile devices everyday

Can you imagine life without your mobile phone?

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