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Infographic: A Break Down Of The Internet In A Day

The internet is vast.  It is a constantly changing landscape of GIFs and cats, which will make our future generations severely question our levels of productivity (blame Reddit).  But what exactly happens in a single day on the web?  How much content is created and shared in this enormous virtual space?  The team at internetserviceproviders.org investigated and produced this rather nifty infographic about it.

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Infographic: How Much Power Does The Internet Consume?

It's something that we now take for granted in our daily lives, but how often do we spare a thought for the energy poured into data centers minute-by-minute to keep our World Wide Web alive and kicking? With some 2.4 billion users generating the equivalent of around seven million DVD's worth of content every single hour – and the amount of data estimated to quadruple by 2016 - it's a question that nevertheless ought to be pondered. So exactly how power-hungry is the Internet? Allow Wireless Satellite Internet to demonstrate...

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[Infographic] The Internet, A Decade Later

The Internet has come a heck of a long way in the short 10 years since 2002. Ultra-fast broadband has taken the place of the blips and bleeps of 56Kb dial-up systems; flashy ads, high-resolution pictures and interactive banners have replaced basic HTML coding; while the introduction of ‘Web 2.0’ has changed the way in which we interact with the World Wide Web forever.

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Infographic: The Cost Of Being Batman

With the possible exception of Tony Stark, Batman is probably one of the more wealthier superheroes in comic book world.  With Wayne Manor costing $600,000,000 alone, along with the insurmountable costs of being the masked crusader, the costs are going to be huge.

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Design Project Visualises How Well You Know Your Facebook Friends

Out of all the Facebook friends you have, their probably is a good chance that you may not physically know a good percentage of them.  So the question would be just how many of them are what you'd call 'real' friends?  This is what designer Colin Pinegar answered in his project, simply titled 'Best Friends.'

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Infographic: Cash. Apple's got it

So after Apple's Quarterly profits report, it's fair to say that the old saying 'made of money' goes some way to describing the state of the company at the moment.  It seems rather difficult to question just how far $400 billion could really be used, likened to asking similar questions such as "how long is a piece of string?"  If split evenly, how much can Apple pay each of it's employees?  How much of this money is 'reserve cash?'  And, most interestingly, how many countries' worth of public debt can the reems of profit pay off?  All this and more in our favourite infographic of the moment, courtesy of MBAonline.com.

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Infographic: Bill Gates is better than Batman

In what initially seems to be an odd comparison of two people, one of the richest and most philanthropic individuals to come out of the Silicon Valley boom is put through his Top Trumps-esque paces against the masked crusader of Gotham City.  Read further down and it does start to make sense: the challenge of how two incredibly rich men save lives in their respective fiction/non-fictional worlds.  Our favourite infographic of the moment, courtesy of Frugal Dad.

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Infographic: Facebook updates get more likes, whereas negative gets more comments

Ever noticed a general trend on Facebook where happy people get more likes, whereas the more depressed individuals start more of a conversation?  Neither did we, until we thought thoroughly about it and identified these in action.  As our social networking lives mimic our real lives, this comes as no surprise, further confirmed by our favourite infographic of the moment, courtesy of Help for Depression.
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Infographic: A History of Western Typefaces

We've always seen ourselves to be fans of Comic Sans, which always brings us great pain whenever we hear such hatred of it; but we see it clearly in the historybooks of modern typography, and are then disgusted to see the Ban Comic Sans website.  It's an insult to what is an under-appreciated font.  Guess you can take a look at all these other fonts in one of our favourite infographics of the moment, courtesy of Mashable. 
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Infographic of the day: Death and Gravestone symbolism

This one is both interesting because of all the historical facts behind something that we've seen end up to be some sort of eulogy followed by an unfortunately cheesy quote of some sorts mean something on a functional level through image pragmatics.  And it's funny because it was commissioned by a Life insurance company.  Warming up those beds and bank accounts for you!  Our infographic of the day, courtesy of Life Insurance Finder.
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Infographic of the day: Michael Bay

Lets be honest, even though the simple title "Infographic of the day" seems menial enough, the fact that the name "Michael bay" has been put just a colon and space to the right of it just makes the whole affair seem more epic.

But enough of that, we know the first thing anyone thinks about when they hear of Bay is the explosions.  How many have their been in the history of his film-making career?  And what is the correlation between the amount of explosions, and the amount of money his films make?  These are questions that Kyle Vanhove answered in our Infographic(s) of the day. 

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Infographic of the day: Will your tweets get you robbed?

So we've had Twitter stories and a Tweephone; but how many potential robbers follow the likes of Twitter or Facebook to target possible houses to break into?  What are the common mistakes homeowners make that lead to the easy break-in?  And how many robberies are committed in the day and night?  Find out in our Infographic of the day, courtesy of creditsesame.com.
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Infographic of the day: How much money will consumers spend this Christmas?

You might have to run the numbers through Google currency; but we're in a Christmassy mood, so why not!  What are people most likely going to be buying this holiday?  What social networks will people research their presents by?  And how much money will people spend on presents?  All answered in our Infographic of the day, another one done courtesy of lab42.
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Infographic of the day: Can your job be done by a robot?

I know what you're thinking, dear reader.  Is your job safe in this economy?  You're not thinking about the possibly prosperous path ahead; but rather about the way back and how far away from the eventual demise you feel as if you will find yourself in.  With this, New Rising Media, yet again, have got your back.  Our infographic of the day, courtesy of mindflash.com.
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Infographic of the day: Why Hasn't the Person You Texted Responded Yet?

This one's not really informative, nor is it graphical; but it's pretty hilarious and reminds us of a situation we (and all our readers) have been in before.  Come on, you're reading New Rising Media so it's clear you have a certain sense for being socially awkward and make the most subtle of what you think to be 'pop culture references,' only to have eyes of complete confusion befall you.  Simply put: you must be a nerd.  So we want to help with the times when you may just be having second thoughts about that last text you just sent with our Infographic of the day, courtesy of Collegehumour.
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