The rise of Pinterest. It’s driving more traffic than Google+. (via Mashable)
Encouraging members to redeem a 2 for 1 ticket offer. The catch? People had to access both halves of the code by watching two separate videos. Read more about it here (via Contagious)
Good indication of the popularity of geotagging photos around the world
That map you see above isn’t a picture of the earth, seen from space. Rather, it’s a map of the locations attached to every tweet and Flickr photo. What results is a remarkable picture of how each service has spread across the globe.
Infographic Of The Day: Using Twitter And Flickr Geotags To Map The World | Co.Design
Before & after shots of a new volcanic island in the red sea (via Gizmodo)
Skinny Cow’s ‘Delicious New Year’ campaign allows fans to post their 2012 resolutions via an interactive ‘Resolution Wall’. Get in quick, there’s a special offer to the first 15,000 people to post on the wall.
Create, share and publish HTML5 animations right from your browser using Mugeda. It’s a world-first, cloud-based solution and can be used in a wide range of applications like games, ads, mobile and social ads.
Yet again Arcade Fire fails to disappoint with their interactive dance-in-front-of-your-webcam video for their song “Sprawl II”.
“The idea is to affect the pacing of the film with your movements. You are invited to dance in front of your webcam. There is no specific rules, no complicated “minority report” tricks. Just an invitation to move your arms or your butt on the music. The quicker you move, the faster the frames play. You slow down, the characters in the video slow down.”
Stock photo psychographics? When you opt in for email from Tourism Queensland, you’re asked to choose what you think people who would like your kind of QLD holiday are likely to look like. We’re looking forward to visiting a strong, sensitive Surfers Paradise, apparently.
iOffice: View more architectural renderings of Apple’s planned new HQ/mother ship.
From U.K. social agency The Social Practice. Hat tip to The Curious Brain.
The Scan Board. A beautiful design concept for print publication hunters and gatherers, found by Yanko Design and shared by Lost at E Minor.
U-ram Choe’s kinetic sculpture has a “transcending kind of energy”, as U-ram describes it.
At launch, the site wasn’t even truly finished. Mr. Bezos’s philosophy was to get to market quickly, in order to get a jump on the competition, and to fix problems and improve the site as people started using it. Among the early mistakes, according to Mr. Bezos: “We found that customers could order a negative quantity of books! And we would credit their credit card with the price and, I assume, wait around for them to ship the books.”
From “Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com: Birth of a Salesman”, The Wall Street Journal, 15 October 2011
Google Browser Size is a visualization of browser window sizes for people who visit Google. You can view any Web site with this same visualisation overlaid on it to get a sense of what percent of users can see what parts of the page.
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” – Steve Jobs, Stanford University Commencement Speech, 2005
Thanks Steve. We love Apple, and that means we kind of love you too.
