Currently in private beta, Visual.ly is a new tool that allows you to create and share infographics.
Going on the video below, Visual.ly sure seems like a compelling offering – particularly when you consider the lack of tools currently out there available to non-designers to create their own infographic data visualizations.

If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll know that I have am often impressed with some of the more creative Infographics that appear on my radar. I’m very much of the school of thought that says – produce a report and …

In 2010, Toronto agency  john st. took on its toughest challenge yet. Make Chelsea Bedano’s birthday party a success in an already cluttered birthday market. The results were astounding.

This is absolutely brilliant, a spoof agency of the year submission for Strategy magazine from Toronto agency John St.
Called ‘Pink Ponies: a case history’ it almost has you believing it all.
“In a crowded birthday market we didn’t didn’t just create a birthday party we created a birthday movement.”

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I’ve been a long time follower of David Meerman Scott, author of the brilliant The New Rules of Marketing and PR which I still remember reading for the first time a few years ago and the impact it has made on my outlook to the industry in which I work. Six months on the BusinessWeek bestseller list and published in 26 languages from Bulgarian to Vietnamese, New Rules, now in its second edition, is a modern business classic.
There have been a few new books written by the author since but for a real …

An informational motion graphics piece by Alex Trimpe looking at how the world’s obsession with Facebook is growing day by day.
To view the video on Alex’s Vimeo channel click here.

The World Is Obsessed With Facebook from Alex Trimpe on Vimeo.
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I smiled a lot when I spotted the following video today.  Having recently had a conversation with a new client the other day about how Facebook is the perfect life-mirror, the following video from Maxime Luere shows how true this is by telling the story of Alex Droner:

A LIFE ON FACEBOOK from maxluere on Vimeo.

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Last week, Facebook launched it’s latest move into location based social networking with its Deals add-on to Facebook Places.

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According to the official blog, local businesses will be able to offer consumers deals whenever they check in to their place on Facebook. Deals will be rolling out over the next few days and will only be available in the United States at this time (shock, horror!)
When Facebook Places launched  back in August, it was touted as a potential Foursquare killer. Just days …

The Internet has been nominated for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of its positive impact on humanity:

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We have finally realised that the Internet is much more than a network of computers.
It is an endless web of people. Men and women from every corner of the globe are connecting to one another, thanks to the biggest social interface ever known to humanity.
Digital culture has laid the foundations for a new kind of society.
And this society is advancing dialogue, debate and consensus through communication.
Because democracy has always flourished where …

The Metropolitan Police have launched an online ‘whodunnit?’ video to teach teenagers in Lambeth how minimal involvement with a crime could see them charged with a serious offence.
The Who Killed Deon? site aims to show how real people can turn away from violent crime and uses integration with Facebook and YouTube to get their point across.
The online tool features six character films – each with a different connection to a murder and explanation whether that person was involved:

http://www.youtube.com/user/whokilleddeon
To watch the other videos visit facebook.com/whokilleddeon or visit the Who Killed Deon YouTube Channel.
Joint …

How long could you go without a computer? Three Carleton College students take on the challenge of giving up their computers to see how their academic, social, and work lives are affected. No Google. No Facebook. No e-mail.  How will they get their work done? Will they cheat? Who will survive the longest? This documentary follows students Andrew, Caitlin, and Chel as they go through “digital detox” and learn to interact with themselves and with others in ways we have largely forgotten.
“Consistently funny, philosophical… casually ingenious!” -Rob Nelson, Film Critic
“A …

We all deserve a bit / lot of happiness in our lives and Coca-Cola would agree with that sentiment.
Back in January I featured Coke’s Happiness Machine on this blog – a really nice video concept which made it’s way around the web from the US.
Well, the machine has now arrived in London and found it’s way on YouTube today. So far, the clip has racked up just under 3,700 views* – a modest amount compared to the million views that the original video received in it’s first week. However, whilst the impact of the …