jQuery Sponsor Flip Wall

No … it’s not a table. It’s a jQuery animated wall. It does it like this:

jQuery Sponsor Flip Wall - Animation

What’s great is that you can easily modify your sponsors/friends because it takes the data from a simple array:


$sponsors = array(
array('facebook','The biggest social..','http://www.facebook.com/'),
array('adobe','The leading software de..','http://www.adobe.com/'),
array('microsoft','One of the top software c..','http://www.microsoft.com/'),
array('sony','A global multibillion electronics..','http://www.sony.com/'),
array('dell','One of the biggest computer develo..','http://www.dell.com/'),
array('ebay','The biggest online auction and..','http://www.ebay.com/'),
array('digg','One of the most popular web 2.0..','http://www.digg.com/'),
array('google','The company that redefined w..','http://www.google.com/'),
array('ea','The biggest computer game manufacturer.','http://www.ea.com/'),
array('mysql','The most popular open source dat..','http://www.mysql.com/'),
array('hp','One of the biggest computer manufacturers.','http://www.hp.com/'),
array('yahoo','The most popular network of so..','http://www.yahoo.com/'),
array('cisco','The biggest networking and co..','http://www.cisco.com/'),
array('vimeo','A popular video-centric social n..','http://www.vimeo.com/'),
array('canon','Imaging and optical technology ma..','http://www.canon.com/')
);
shuffle($sponsors);


You can read the whole tutorial, view a demo or download it on TutorialZine

Over 210 billion emails are sent out daily which is more than a whole year worth of letters in the US.

3 million photos are uploaded on Flickr everyday – enough images to fill a 375,000 page photo album.

43,339,547 GIGABYTES are sent across all mobile phones globally everyday which is enough to fill 1.7 million Blu-Ray Discs, 9.2 million DVDs, 63.9 trillion 3.5″ diskettes.

$145 million is made from all mobile services daily and $13 million is generated from mobile video games.

700,000 new members are added on FaceBook everyday (the aproximate population of Guyana) and 45 million status updates are being recorded daily.

5 million tweets per day

and bloggers post 900,000 new articles everyday …

And there you have it – the average day on the internet.

Tim Berners-Lee, the guy who usually gets the cred for inventing the world wide web, says there is one thing he’d do differently if he did it all again: He’d dump the double slash that follows http in web addresses.

He apparently laments all the trees and time that’s been killed by people having to type and print out http:// instead of just http: and whatever the address is. I’m pretty sure, though, that typing out all those slashes isn’t quite the biggest waste of time on the internet, so I hope he doesn’t beat himself up too badly at night.

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The thing is that Torfox never connects directly to the internet. Check out this screenshot:

As you can see Torfox is connecting to the website through a lot of different IP’s ( Remote address ). This means that it’s a secure anonymous browser by routing all connections through 3 different proxies and by disabling insecure features such as disk cache, JavaScript and other plugins.

Enough with the tech stuff. It’s free just like Firefox and Tor and open source – yey, this means it can be trusted – but even if it’s based on Tor and Mozilla technology Torfox is not endorsed by either of them.

And if you’re travelling a lot you can use Torfox’s portable version by download it as a ZIP file [ 9.4 MB ] and extracting it to your USB flash drive without installing anything.

Microsoft gets the leftovers, i.e. remnant inventory.

The partnership between Digg and Microsoft was initially supposed to last until mid-2010, but according to Mike Maser, Digg’s chief revenue and strategy officer, the two always had an understanding that Digg would at some point start selling the majority of its own ads. He added that the company’s internal sales efforts will focus on custom, non-IAB inventory combined with standardized banner ads.

This is not necessarily a sign that Microsoft was underperforming, although it’s clear Digg stands to make more money from advertising running its own sales. The move is not a surprise in that regard, and this type of switch happens regularly when websites grow enough to build their own internal sales teams.

In January, Digg hired former Yahoo sales exec Thomas Shin, its first ad sales executive, and is currently recruiting a nation-wide sales force. By the end of the year the company hopes to hire a total of five to seven reps in San Francisco, the Los Angeles area, Chicago and New York.

Ironically, Digg CEO Jay Adelson put the two following bullet points together in a blog post published earlier this year in which he highlighted what Digg’s focus in 2009 would be on its path to profitability:

• Building on our advertising infrastructure
• Building on our successful partnership with Microsoft

I guess we can now stop calling that last one a priority for this year.