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As we mentioned in last Friday’s post, we helped out a bit on downloads for Nine Inch Nails’ The Slip. We didn’t do much, simply hosted the file on our CDN for the first month or so (NIN has since taken this over themselves). But that did give some interesting data to play with, and our research scientist Eric Gottschalk mapped the data against the Google Earth API for a killer visualization of where NIN fans were located on the planet.

We sent this off to Trent for his enjoyment. Trent had Craig Johnston of Sudjam (the team that helps with NIN.com) run with the idea, make it pretty, and shared the result with his fans. Right on. Click here to Digg Trent’s post so the world sees it.

Thanks again, Trent. It’s a pleasure to have been involved in even the smallest of ways. Thanks for blazing the trail.

ian c rogers
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