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To come up with the numbers, the analysts compared internet users in 31 markets who have used or contributed to a social network in the past month. In December 2012, Google+ grew by 27 percent to 343 million active users, accounting for 25 percent of the global internet population.

Smartphones are on a fast track to become the primary device for both creating and consuming digital content. According to the Pew Internet for the American Life Project, already a full 31% of Americans who own internet-capable phones browse the web primarily from their phones. These numbers are actually higher in emerging markets. What's more, there are at least three other factors at work here. First, images are global. They eschew all language and cultural boundaries. Photography is the only true universal medium. Nothing comes close. Second, images are distributable. The bandwidth required to transmit photos is minimal, yet the opportunities for quick, creative expression are plentiful. As of this writing, Apple's App Store alone has over 10,000 iPhone apps in its photo category -- many of them for editing. Photoshopping has been democratized. Finally, images are digestible. You can glance at a picture for as short or as long as you want. Photos are a non-linear, shared consumption experience. The same can't be said for video or even text.

me the musical -- pretty catchy animated musical video powered by the content on your timeline. Telling a story from the day you were born through to today, highlighting various global hits, technology feats like the start of the internet and so on, as they little characters walk down your timeline

This animated graph is very cool.

Add Elon Musk satellite thing + this + Outernet and you get the trend to the global meshnet.

This is funny, some slightly nsfw

In response to anti-Semitic tweets

Beautiful data visualizations and who knew Amazon sucked so bad when it comes to renewable energy.

Over the past week, reports from Chinese Internet users indicate that when Gmail is accessed, users are auto-forwarded to a replica site at a different address where they're asked to enter or re-enter their account information