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Graphic designer Jack Hagley has created “The World as 100 People,” an infographic that illustrates global breakdowns of language, religion, gender, literacy, and more using statistics from 100 People. The full infographic is available on Visually.
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For as ubiquitous as connectivity has become and how reliant we’ve grown on it, the Internet is still a digital jungle where hackers easily steal sensitive information from the ill-equipped and where the iron-fisted tactics of totalitarian regimes bent on controlling what their subjects can access are common. So instead of mucking around in public networks, just avoid them. Use a VPN instead. More » 
Google today announced that it has redesigned some of Google Analytics‘ social reports to make it easier for publishers to see when they get inbound links from other sites. The update also makes it easier to track how people are engaging with a publisher’s content through the new Data Hub Activity report. Google Analytics’ Social Data Hub gets this data from partner sites like Reddit, and Digg, through commenting systems like Disqus, Echo and Livefyre, as well as a number of other services.
The standalone Data Hub Activity report provides publishers with a “timeline of the number of activities that have occurred in the Social Data Hub and the raw activities in a list below.” The data can also be filtered by specific networks.
This Social Hub data was already available previously, but it was mostly buried inside Google Analytics’ social reports. Now that this data is more visible, integrating with the Analytics Social Data Hub will surely become more interesting for companies that operate social networks and platforms, as more Analytics users will now be aware of it and ask for this kind of integration so they can track their social engagement data in one place.
Stats about trackbacks, too, were already available in Google Analytics, but they are now available in a standalone report. Previously, however, it was hard to see how important a certain inbound link really was. The new report, Google says, now provides more context “for the significance of each of these trackbacks by displaying the number of visits that were driven by each endorsing URL during the reporting period.”
If realized, the proposed “anytime upgrade” plan would let members pay a small fee to upgrade as often as twice a year. Gadget fanatics could readily trade up to the latest, greatest smartphone. [Read more]
The Swedish Language Council has nuked a word from its list of new terms for 2012 at Google’s request, according to a report from The Local. As of Tuesday, the council has removed the word ogooglebar (ungoogleable) from its list of new words for the year after Google objected to its definition.
Each year, the Swedish Language Council selects a handful of new words to highlight with the goal of advancing and cultivating the Swedish Language. In December, one of the words selected was ogooglebar, meaning a thing or person that does not produce relevant results when typed into a search engine.
Google took exception to the broad inclusion of “search engines” in the definition, and wanted the word to be defined only as things or people unsearchable on Google specifically. Rather than quibble with Google over the definition or bend to its request, the council removed the term from its list, while noting that this didn’t necessarily mean it would be removed from the language itself.
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