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If you went through the drive-thru of your favorite fast food restaurant today, and if they served you a cheeseburger in an edible paper wrapper, would you eat it? If you looked around and saw other people smearing ketchup and mustard on the wrapper and eating it, would you? I probably would. In a w ...

DIY Instructions For Your Own Working LED Kite

It's funny to me that so many multinational companies spend millions of dollars for advertising on stadium billboards and in exclusive newspapers when there are just as many advertising opportunities that cost way less and probably get way more attention. Creativity is the mother of all things cool ...

Wiki-Donations: Will You Donate To The New Encyclopedia?

Jim Vacey

While I was poking around online for stuff to write a post about, I searched the web for current social media topics to discuss as I usually do. When I come up with something interesting, I tend to reference Wikipedia to cite any clever quip I tend to come up with. When I made my way to the Wikipedi ...

Geek

DeLorean Car Becomes The Taxi Of The Future

What is your best taxi experience? I know it's an odd question to start an article with, but in this particular case, it's one that makes the most sense as you will soon realize. I could have also asked what your worst taxi experience has been, right? Well, not exactly. The reason why I asked you th ...

Design

The Anatomy Of A Working Ad Design [Infographic]

Online ads have long been one of the most popular revenue streams for websites. The interesting thing is that the online revenue trend line has overtaken the printed revenue trend line this year. What does that mean? Well, you might think that online advertising is more profitable than printed ads, ...

Design

Movie Villains Become Butter Bad Guy Sculptures Fighting Cholesterol

People create the most curious things sometimes. It's amazing what can become of a piece of candy wrapper or even a banana peel. You never know when an idea will bring you a million people to make your stuff go viral on the Internet. We have seen it happen so many times. Everything from Styrofoam cu ...

Paying For Content: The Increasing Use Of Paywalls [Infographic]

There are around 450 million “active” English blogs on the Internet, and somewhere around 100 million non-English blogs. It's safe to say that there will never be a shortage of content being created and shared. As we all know, the content that bloggers put together, whether it is personal or for oth ...

Social Media Landscape: Top 20 Brands In Social Media [Infographic]

Have you ever examined the social media landscape you explore every day? There is a lot we can learn from just paying attention to who is doing what online at any given moment. For example, this weekend I saw an online ad for Amazon. This wasn't an adwords ad, but it was a gorgeous, big ad that was ...

Google Economy: How Google Makes $100 Million A Day [Infographic]

There's no doubt that Google is one of the world's most successful companies, and it has been for several years. Their many free services are fueled by revenue acquired from ads of different sorts. Their entire business concept revolves around ads, and they are one of the few companies in the world ...

Design

Sticky Notes With A Bald Head: Another Brilliant Sticky Note Design

If you are like me, almost the entire top of your desk is covered with sticky notes. Sometimes I look at the sea of them everywhere and wonder what was so important that I wrote all those in the first place. After a while, they are almost impossible to keep up with anymore. That doesn't seem to matt ...

Business Branding Through Characterization Guide [Infographic]

As more and more companies take to the Internet to have a shot at a greater level of success, branding becomes ever more important. It has been said a million times by now, but a company without a website is most likely a failing one, and that is becoming more evident now than ever before. If you wa ...

How To Measure The Effectiveness Of Content Marketing [Infographic]

More and more companies are developing content marketing strategies to increase sales, raise brand awareness and cement themselves as leaders in their industries. I remember hearing the words "content marketing" a few years ago, and back then, it was a fuzzy concept that was more of a buzzword than ...

Why The Web’s Most Popular Color Is Blue [Infographic]