Social media has become a major sounding board for opinions and trends relating to society’s never-ending fascination with popular culture. Social media platforms have been buzzing with commentary and speculation about the Oscar nominees. Everyone is weighing in on who they believe to be the frontrunner in winning the most coveted prize in Hollywood on Sunday night, regardless of how much the film made at the box office. [Read more...]
From the creative mind of Caldwell Tanner, illustrator of College Humor, writer of his own captivating and hilarious illustration blog, and graphic artist/comedian extraordinaire, now comes “The Internet League of Justice” illustration series! Imagine if the most popular online websites and social media networks were superheroes! What powers would they have? [Read more...]
This great infographic explores the ins and outs of social web giant, Facebook. Created by Antonio Lupetti, the clean graphic features 11 stats about the site, from users globally to how long they spend on the site. Amazingly, Facebook will reach 1 Billion users sometime in the year 2012 which will be 1/7 the world’s population. Follow Lupetti on Twitter or of all things… Facebook. [Read more...]
Everyone does it on some level. Whether it is someone addicted to text messaging, your parents joining Facebook, or any other number of reasons someone is part of the social network, everyone seems to have their social network vices. Here’s a fun collection of 5 charts, illustrations and infographics for a laugh about the follies and truths of the social mediasphere. Maybe with a little help from these charts, we’ll post all the right stuff in the right places! [Read more...]
“What the heck it electronic mail!?” Before the computer world was connecting every few seconds, the idea of email and online shopping was a concept that had to be communicated to customers. This roundup of vintage computer ads, explores some of the stranger ways companies like Apple and IBM brought us into the information age… be sure to see the last ad in this article, it’s a sight of things to come [Read more...]
You just thought it was new… here the Mad Men of the 1960′s introduce the newly customizable Facebook Timeline. Don Draper, the smooth talking, hard drinking protagonist of the show, gives an amazing sales performance worthy of a few teary ad men faces.
Facebook Timeline, will allow users to tell their own story “from beginning, to middle, to end,” through pictures and other newly customizable features on a new profile. See more about Facebook Timeline here. [Read more...]
Oh my god, what does it mean?! Facebook recently released their updated double news feed, designed to keep you even better connected to your gaggle of online friends. In overwhelmed celebration, motion graphic extraordinaire Jason King put together this downright amazing tribute to an internet meme. Words can’t describe the joy this brings me. [Read more...]
The new web is a battlefield and the players are the social media giants; Twitter, Facebook and now Google + duke it out for talkative and loyal followers. These retro designs by Aaron Wood imagine the propaganda posters that would have lined streets had these clashes happened 70 years ago. Thankfully all these fights come down to choice… but if you still want to show support for your favorite social media contender, slap up one of his 11×14″ posters from Etsy.com. [Read more...]
While social media may not be as addictive as hard drugs (at least not yet), a comparison between the two isn’t that far off. Patrick Moberg’s witty ‘Internet Vices‘ looks at some major hubs of the internet and cleverly compares each to a known drug… habit forming effects and all. See more of Moberg’s illustration work at patrickmoberg.com. [Read more...]
While many people are concerned about privacy online and how their information is shared, what many people don’t know is that their user generated content (UGC) is often monitized by the site to which they upload it. That amazing video of your cat doing yoga or the chart topping song you wrote for your signifigant other? The social networking site hosting the content often has permission to automatically make money off the very content you spent long hours creating. This infographic, created by mycube.com, looks at the various popular websites, from Linkedin to Facebook and the vast amount of UGC that they hold… then it looks at the amount they might be pulling in from our work. [Read more...]
