Vijay For Victory

Have you ever noticed the Power Button (On/Off Switch) in your computers, and electronic devices?

You would find below symbol which are normally known as Power Button (On/Off Switch). Technically, this symbol was used to denote Standby and not for Power. This was wrongly used by all leading manufacturers.

In order to resolve this ambiguity, IEEE made some corrections to the symbols and introduced a new symbol called Crescent in 2004.

According to IEEE,

Bonus: Microsoft still using the old Power Symbol for shut-down in Windows 7. FAIL

Zettabyte Era is appraching. It is estimated that we will reach Zettabyte era in the last quarter of 2015.

CISCO has published a very interesting infographic on this.

Few highlights…

2011: By the end of the year there will be more networked devices than people on earth.
2011: Digital screen surface area will reach 1 square foot per capita.
2015: There will be twice as many networked devices as people on earth.

Here is the Inforgraphic to visualize.

Google and Yahoo released the summary of popular search terms and phrases of 2010 for individual nations.

Google Zeitgeist 2010

More detailed popular search phrases on Google are listed in Google Zeitgeist 2010

Yahoo Year in Review

Yahoo also listed all its popular search strings in yearinreview.yahoo.com

Yahoo’s top searches for other countries can be found in France, India, United Kingdom, United States

"History of the internet" is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to file sharing, from Arpanet to Internet.

Many of us are Facebook users. Updating Facebook status is almost like a daily/weekly routine for us. There are few who updates Facebook from Twitter.

How to merge Twitter with Facebook?

Updating the status with flip text will be more fun than the normal updates. How to get this?

Flip Facebook Status is a simple web app that flips your text. You can copy the flip text and update your Facebook status.

Flip text will look like this.

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Flip web app URL : Flip Facebook Status

Update: www.upsidedowntext.com is another website which retains the upper case letters in flip format. Thanks to Jacob

Have fun!!!

Is Social Media a Fad? has been released by Socialnomics last year. Few days back, they have released an updated video with more interesting stats.

The facts and figures provided in the video are quiet interesting.

• More than half of the world’s population is under 30.
• Ashton Kutcher and Britney Spears have more Twitter followers than the populations of Sweden, Israel, Switzerland, Ireland, Norway and Panama.
• 1 out of 8 married couples met via social media

Check out the video for more interesting stats.

There are many twitter apps available to analyse the tweets, find the followers etc.,

Here is an interesting and innovative web app developed by Amit, that reveals the sleeping habits of any twitter user.

The results are amazing and many are agreeing that the web app gives accurate (almost) timings. I do agree with the result.

If you want your or your friends sleeping timings, then please login to www.sleepingtime.org and just enter the twitter id.

This is one of the most innovative web app I have ever seen in the recent past.