Source: YouTube’s Life in a Day’s Channel ‘On July 24 2010, thousands of people around the world took part in Life in a Day, a historic cinematic experiment to document a single day on earth. Since then, Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald and a team of editors have whittled down over 80,000 clips (and more than [...]

Source: BBC ‘Starbucks, the world’s largest chain of coffee shops, has unveiled a new logo which it says indicates its intention to move beyond its core product.’

Last year Dutch airline KLM conducted a very interesting social media driven rewards program. Instead of just allocating points or gifts to frequent flyers they identified passengers who had checked in on Foursquare, or were tweeting about waiting for a KLM flight. A team of people checked the social profiles of the these passengers for [...]

Source: Mashable.com ‘There are more than 200,000 apps in the Android market. There are more than 325,000 apps available for iOS devices. Even the fledgling Windows Phone 7 app marketplace already has greater than 5,300 apps. Throw in the wide world of web applications and, forget about it: you’d need many lifetimes to try them [...]

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‘To anyone curious about #NewTwitter proportions, know that we didn’t leave those ratios to chance. This, of course, only applies to the narrowest version of the UI. If your browser window is wider, your details pane will expand to provide greater utility, throwing off these proportions. But the narrowest width shows where we started, ratio-wise.’