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Paul Butler analyzed the relationships of cities around the world through the eyes of Facebook. Amazing!

Great real-time visualization of geolocated tweets around the world.

Tough times for Foursquare: Facebook Launches DEALS as Social Commerce Service for Local Businesses via socialcommercetoday.com

This is a nice and simple creative idea of combining a brand message with branded utility. The concept of the Creative artist Luong Lu, yet to be realized, aims at bringing people together through food, and thus save energy. It is so simple, and hopefully it will make its way:
"Today, more and more people live alone and according to a late study, loneliness is a bigger health threat than alcoholism, obesity and smoking. What if we could fight it with something so simple like eating, and at the same time, save energy?"

IDEO takes a look at three routes the book of the future can take, and they're named Nelson, Coupland and Alice.

A 100 year old tree, living on the edge of Brussels, was hooked up to a fine dust meter, ozone meter, light meter, weatherstation, webcam and microphone.

I really like the idea to use twitter as sort of real time promotional tool. Canada's board of tourism is smartly using consumer generated content and authentic testimonials as the most trustworthy source of information and inspiration.

It’s not easy being teen. But thanks to the Paper Gang, it’s gotten a whole lot cooler! And although it may seem like just a small step for paper man, it’s a big move for glue manufacturer Pritt, who have charged us with attracting the young, digital natives to (re-)connect with the brand.

Awesome numbers. Great infographic piece by Jesse Thomas.

The art of trench by Burberry shows how luxury brands can do social commerce. Basically it is a “user generated, brand curated” gallery supporting ratings and comments linked to their e-commerce platform.