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The Internet as Manhattan Neighborhoods

Amanda Peyton, the creator of geo-blogging site MessageParty, has designed a map of internet services based on Manhattan and its neighborhoods: The reasoning behind each placement is as follows: Twitter + Wall Street: Frenetic, Jumbled, Terse, but incredibly powerful Foursquare + East Village: The roots of the service were in the EV and the best foursquare tips are still found here; bar-hopping, hypersocial, where-you-at mentality Tumblr + West Village and Meatpacking: Coolness to a fault Blog + Gramercy: I currently live in this neighborhood, so it was most fitting to place it there Email + Chelsea and Times Square: Large, unmanageable, swelling, but ultimately the pulse of everything Bnter + West Chelsea + Hell’s Kitchen: West Chelsea is the biggest up-and-comer...

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The Development of the Camera [Infographic]

This one is for my photographer friends. Created by Mashable in conjunction with Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom®, it sure makes me nostalgic about the cameras of my past. (Like the Kodak DX3600, which was the first digital camera I ever owned. It was HUGE and boasted a paltry 2.3 megapixels, but I was the first of my friends to own a digital camera and for that, I was proud.) Enjoy! ...

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