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

Little known facts about Power Button is originally published by Vijay For Victory

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.

Facts about Zettabyte Era is originally published by Vijay For Victory

Google Zeitgeist 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0QXB5pw2qE

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

Google and Yahoo – Popular searches in 2010 is originally published by Vijay For Victory

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4

History of Internet – An informative video is originally published by Vijay For Victory

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.

Vijay For Victory => ʎɹoʇɔıʌ ɹoɟ ʎɐɾıʌ

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!!!

Have fun with Facebook Status using Flip Text is originally published by Vijay For Victory

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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFZ0z5Fm-Ng

Social Media Revolution – Video with latest stats is originally published by Vijay For Victory

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.

Sleeping habits revealed by Innovative Twitter App is originally published by Vijay For Victory

What is this EVERYTHING? Below picture depicts EVERYTHING.

This image is applicable only for Twitterholics.

Do Not Use Twitter

How to find the person is Twitterholic ornot?

Here is a small tip to find out whether someone is Twitterholic or not.

If someone tweets after tweeting “Good Night” or saying many Good Nights, then he/she is definitely a Twitterholic.

Do you have any other tips?

When should not you tweet? is originally published by Vijay For Victory

Twitter hits 10 Billion tweets today. Most of the people who tried to track the 10 Billionth tweet were disappointed as the 10 Billionth tweet is from some protected user.

On an average, there are 45 Million tweets are logged in a day. And the growth rate is rapidly growing. More information on the counter can be found at the popular website Gigatweet.

What next? 20 Billionth Tweet

Twitter hits 10 Billion Tweets and still counting is originally published by Vijay For Victory

StumbleUpon toolbar can hold a maximum of 500 links. If you don’t clear the shares and reaches the limit, your friends will not be able to share the new content with you. You may loose some interesting stuff.

How quickly you can clear the stumbles? If you are familiar with StumbleUpon toolbar then, this tip would help you to give better stumble experience.

Click the Stumble Button by holding Ctrl key will open the page in new tab. Or you can use the mouse scroll button to open the content in new tab.

This will allow you stumble faster and help you to clear the shares.

You can follow my stumbles at http://vijayforvictory.stumbleupon.com

How fast can you clear your StumbleUpon shares? is originally published by Vijay For Victory