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This is 'On the Net Today' – your go-to newsletter for maximizing your internet experience! Three times a week (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) we curate a selection of three valuable resources to enhance your browsing time.

Here are three recommendations we've prepared for today:

• Spectacular promotional video by the BBC for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games

• 538 by ABC News: Analysis of electoral polls

• What happens on the Internet in one minute?

'Welcome to the City of Love', the Paris 2024 Olympic Games BBC launch film

The BBC has released a spectacular one-minute animated video titled “Welcome to the City of Love” to showcase its coverage of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

You can watch it here:

This beautiful piece was created by the BBC Creative team in collaboration with Nexus Studios. The 60-second animation features 58 shots and 36 athletes, forming “an artistic and intense choreography” in a “dynamic and moving tribute to sporting passion,” as described by the Nexus Studios team.

Links:

• Video – BBC Sport on YouTube

• Welcome to the City of Love – Nexus Studios

• The BBC’s coverage of the Paris 2024 Olympics: Fall in love with the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on the BBC 

538 by ABC News: Analysis of electoral polls 

538 is a website currently owned by the ABC News network, specializing in the analysis of opinion polls with a particular focus on political issues. It is one of the platforms to follow for the latest polling updates on the upcoming U.S. presidential elections on November 5, 2024.

The project, known for years as FiveThirtyEight, was founded in 2008 by author and statistics expert Nate Silver. For a time, it was part of The New York Times. However, Silver left in April 2023, and the original domain, fivethirtyeight.com, was shut down months later, redirecting traffic to the ABC News website. The name and logo were also changed to the current 538.

Nate Silver then decided to launch his own newsletter, Silver Bulletin, where he continues to provide analyses on politics and elections and writes about media, sports, poker, and other topics of particular interest to him.

Links:

• 538 – ABC News

• All 538 Interactives

• Latest Polls

• Nate Silver's Silver Bulletin Newsletter

What happens on the Internet in one minute?

6.3 million Google searches. 241.2 million emails. 41.6 million WhatsApp messages. 360,000 posts on X (formerly Twitter). $455,000 in Amazon sales.

These are some of the things that happen every minute on the internet, according to the latest edition of the "Data Never Sleeps" report, published annually since 2013 by the company Domo.

The following infographic offers a summary of the main data:

Links:

• Data Never Sleeps Turns 11! - Domo Blog 

• Infographic: Data Never Sleeps 11

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