There is a story about Salavador Dali that I heard in art school which made a huge impression on me. The story goes that Salvador Dali was visiting the American ambassador one day and being shown some magic trick. Dali, unimpressed, claimed he could do better. He promised to turn a 1 dollar bill into a 1000 dollar bill. The ambassador took the challenge and produced a one dollar bill. Dali grabbed it, took a pencil from his jacket, put his autograph on the one dollar bill, and handed it back to the ambassador....

Have you ever wondered how much money you can get for that old smartphone? How about how Many iPhones are sold just after a new release of a new model? eBay knowsand has provided us with some insight into smartphone sales on its site, in the form of a sexy infographic. With over 125,000 iPhone 4, 3G and 3GS selling in q4 of 2010 the data might even convince you to part ways with your ‘old’ iPhone....

A lot of entrepreneurs are looking for developers. Or for funding to be able to hire developers. Sometimes they spent months, even years, working on funding, finding a good team and developing their ideas. You can do all that or just pick up a book on programming or surf over to php.net for afree online tutorial. That is what I did when I was 29. I did it out of frustration because I worked with developers who kept telling me what was and wasn’t possible....

Google’sDoodles– the fun pieces of art that Google replaces its logo with for special occasions – are immensely popular with the public, but how much traffic do they actually drive? When you click a Doodle, it takes you to search results related to its theme. On Wednesday, Google celebrated the 172nd anniversary of artist Paul Cézanne’s birth with a Doodle, and one site to turn up in the top search results when users clicked through in many countries wasArt In The Picture....

Last week, one of TNW Labs’ productsTwitter Counterreceived a very welcome tweet from the #winning man himself, actorCharlie Sheen. Needless to say we were delighted but my immediate thought was, exactly how much traffic did the man drive? Well, I can happily report that for his 4+ Million followers, his tweet brought in23,754 page viewsin a 24 hour period. A click through rate of approximately 0.5% Surprisingly enough, this is significantly more than the traffic generated from atweet from Ashton Kutcherearlier this year....