After analyzing more than 10 million anonymized emails from Yahoo!, a group of computer researchers stumbled upon a fascinating trend: countries with economic and cultural similarities had a tendency to send each other emails far more frequently. More » 
Even though we’re living in 2013 and can stream entire seasons of TV shows in between banking and sending work emails on our phone alone, sending data around the world is not exactly an easy feat. The internet exists how it does today thanks to the help of cables sunk deep into the world’s oceans. A new, gorgeous map details the world’s submarine cables as they appear in 2013, and shows us where the underwater internet is headed in the future.
Sightsmap is an interactive heatmap that shows the most photographed sightseeing spots in the world. It is powered by data from Panoramio, a location-based photo sharing site. Sightsmap is by Estonian computer science professor Tanel Tammet.
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Android: Google Maps rolled out some new features for their location-tracking Latitude app today, letting you view summaries of where you go and spend most of your time. It's pretty cool—so cool, they make us actually want to use Latitude. More »
While Google Maps offers its own editing tools for drawing and annotating, they’re not particularly easy to use and the printing options are limited. Stepping in to solve this problem with its own, free solution is FIND, which this week launched Personalise Your Map.
This easy-to-use Web app lets you customise the colours of just about every element of a map and makes adding text boxes, arrows, lines and shapes much easier than the standard Google tools. If you’re mapping the UK, it takes advantage of open Ordnance Survey mapping data to allow you to add area boundaries, historic building locations, nature reserves and geological information.
You can choose between a standard Google Map, Google’s satellite view and OpenStreetMap data. Additionally, Ordnance Survey maps can be selected when you’re looking at the UK (this option worked when we tried the service earlier in the week but is currently showing as “temporarily unavailable”) Double-clicking on any element that you’ve added to your map opens up a box that lets you customise it with different colours and patterns.
Once your map is complete, the service lets you save it as a PDF for storing, sharing and printing – a useful feature that Google Maps lacks.
Sadly, there’s currently no way to save your map in a way that allows you to edit it further at a later date – you need to create and finish your map in one session. Still, if you need to create a custom map to share with others, FIND’s solution is well worth a try.
