Congratulations are in order. Facebook recently registered their 500 millionth member. I wonder if Facebook threw that person a party like the grocery stores used to do for their 1 millionth customer? Wow! The United States only has a touch over 300 million citizens according to Google Public Data. In a recent article on US [...]
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I Guess Google Doesn’t Know All
July 16, 2010 – 8:10 am
We’ve had a lot of conversations in the office about the power of Google and what they might do with it. Google has a great office culture (Google “google office“) and provides many free apps, such as Docs, Analytics, and Maps to drive traffic to their websites. I am still astonished every time I look [...]
A View From Outside
July 13, 2010 – 8:37 am
Our office has a different look outside here at Design the Planet; the look of a construction site. Earlier this year our office building’s roof had a leak that dripped on the ceiling of our atrium. Unfortunately, our atrium is 5-stories tall and not easy to repair. Take a look at what we got to [...]
XXX
July 9, 2010 – 3:12 pm
What’s in a name? For years, the rulers of the internet (at least domain names) has been toying with the idea of making a new domain extension “xxx” for the porn industry. The board at ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has already turned down the proposed more than once, but it is [...]
Misguided Logo Typefaces
June 25, 2010 – 4:37 pm
Sometimes we, as designers, complain about the overuse of common themed fonts like Papyrus, Brush Script, and Comic Sans. We also complain about misusing the font such as the example below. A local store called Upscale Clothing uses Comic Sans as their logo. Why would a place describing themselves as upscale use a handwritten font? [...]
Happy Birthday YouTube
April 23, 2010 – 11:11 am
We would be remiss, if we did not say Happy Birthday to YouTube. The video giant is now 5 years old. It’s been a busy spring with Facebook hitting the 6 year mark in February. YouTube and Facebook are two of the major players in the Social Media/Web 2.0 movement along with LinkedIn and the [...]
10 Billion Strong
February 23, 2010 – 10:23 am
Have you ever doubted the power of digital media or underestimated the impact of Apple’s iPod? This number may surprise you, in the coming weeks Apple’s iTunes will sell it’s 10 billionth download (that with a “b” meaning – 10,000,000,000)! Be the lucky downloader and you could win a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card! As of [...]
Another Milestone in Social Media
February 12, 2010 – 10:02 am
On the heels of Facebook turning 6 years old, LinkedIn hits another large benchmark. On February 11, LinkedIn announced their 60,000,000 member. Not sure what that exactly means. It means more and more people are going to LinkedIn to find employment through via networking and more people are doing business through LinkedIn. This also shows [...]
A Glimpse Into the Future
February 9, 2010 – 10:37 am
The Saints have won the Super Bowl, but that is not the glimpse that I am referring to in this post. As part of the celebration, WWLTV.com posted headlines from newspapers & websites from around the world. Notice, I said headlines from websites. Of the 43 headlines, about one-third of them were from websites. This [...]
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