The problem with passwords (infographic)

More than half of us say we can't remember all our passwords. Which makes sense, given that almost a third of all companies require their employees to remember six or more of them.

Half a million Flipboard magazines created in the last two weeks

Over 500,000 magazines have been created since Flipboard debuted their new edition two weeks ago.

Data startup takes on fight against human trafficking

SumAll forms a foundation to channel its resources, expertise, and equity towards addressing global issues.

The Europas Nominees: Where are they from? (Infographic)

What are Europe's hottest startup hubs? The Europas European startup awards take place in Berlin next week and I took a look at the nominatation data to find out.

This is what the ‘fiscal cliff’ looks like (infographic)

2012 may not mark the end of the world, but it may signal a nasty end to the perhaps not great -- but also not terrible -- economic malaise of the United States.

The high cost of server downtime (infographic)

Even when a service is up 99.5 percent of the time -- which might sound pretty good to non-developers -- it's down almost 44 hours in a year.

Where the world’s million most visited websites are hosted (infographic)

Quick trivia question: Which U.S city hosts the most of the world's million most-visited websites?

Tomorrow Americans vote for a president, but social media has already picked a winner (infographic)

Tomorrow Americans will vote for a president, new or continuing. Social media users, however, have already decided who has won -- at least in their tweets, shares, and likes.

Venture capital and education: a visual history of the past decade (infographic)

Last month super-angel Dave McClure told me that one of his hottest areas of investment was education. McClure and 500 Startups are mostly investing in informal education, but all of education is ripe for disruption, as Codeacademy, Khan Academy, and MIT OpenCourseware are teaching us.

Consumers are wildly, crazily, disturbingly attached to their iPads (infographic)

iDevices make people crazy, apparently.

That's the only explanation I can think why 40 percent of consumers would rather get in a fender-bender than accidentally destroy their iPad. Or why a third would rather have a root canal, and 16 crazy percent would rather break their nose.

2 billion pounds of dirt and 1.7 trillion square feet later, Roomba celebrates its 10th anniversary (infographic)

My blissful dreams of robot-aided leisure colossal couch-potato-dom were brutally crushed, alas, under the harsh realities of early adopterhood.

The Internet 2002-2012: What a difference a decade makes

A decade -- 10 years. Doesn't sound like much, right?

But a decade ago, the big social networking story was Friendster with a whopping 3 million users. Microsoft's Internet Explorer had 95 percent market share. And less than 600 million people were online globally ... fewer than Facebook users alone in 2012.

Twitter-based Olympic cheer meter reveals who’s winning … on the sofas of the world

London 2012 starts today, and many of us will be glued to screens both large and small for the next 16 days. But while we’re watching, we’re probably also tweeting: cheering our teams and our stars.

And while NBC might …

Profiling the Facebook gamer: Who’s buying what and how often? (infographic)

The who, what, when, where, and why as it relates to players spending money on Facebook games.

If RuneScape were a country, it’d have the fifth largest population in the world (infographic)

8 billion fish caught, a player dying every 27 seconds, 58,000 times more gold than Fort Knox...check out this fascinating infographic for RuneScape, holder of the Guinness World Record for the most popular free-to-play massively multiplayer online game.

If you use a smartphone, you’re a bigger jerk than you think

Not to get all Emily Post on y’all, but have you ever considered how many times a day you’re inadvertently rude because of the ways and moments in which you use your smartphone?

From texting while driving to Words With 

Engine Yard explains how the PaaS market is evolving (infographic)

The market for platform-as-a-service (PaaS) companies will grow steadily in the next several years because of the potential for operational improvement and cost reduction, according to a just-released survey by Engine Yard.

Engine Yard competes heavily with Salesforce’s Force.com and …

222 years of the U.S. Census: paper to punch cards, UNIVAC to CD-ROM … to web?

The U.S. Census Bureau has released an infographic in honor of Independence Day. The interesting part from a Silicon Valley perspective? The technology used to collect and analyze the data.

The first census was taken in 1790 with paper and …