From The Oatmeal’s State of the Web- Spring 2012

Facebook ‘Highlighted Posts’

From Mashable:

Facebook is testing a product called “Highlighted Posts” that potentially puts the company into the online classified ads arena dominated by Craigslist by letting users amplify their status updates.

The feature — discovered by Stuff, a New Zealand blog (which is unaffiliated with the U.K. publication of the same name) — is being tested with a “small percentage of users” right now, a Facebook rep says. The fee for using Highlighted Posts, meanwhile, runs from zero to “a couple of bucks.”

dm2studios:

via smartplanet.com

The notion of “sleeping with the fishes” may someday have a much more upbeat connotation if an ambitious new construction project in Dubai gets underway.

Swiss firm BIG InvestConsult AG has partnered with Underwater architecture specialists Deep Ocean…

Will Facebook and Google Die Out In the Next Five Years?

Forbes magazine recently released an article about the future of Facebook and Google. It’s hard to think that these Internet power players will fully die out given how they are necessary to our lives and businesses in the present. We had a little KM Facebook discussion about this topic.

To read the rest of my thoughts, read my blog post here.

[STAFF PICK] by: @RaeVisita

Pretty Cool Social Media Infographic

Really interesting data… definitely go to the original post to see all the stats. Google skews male and Pinterest skews female. They should probably have a mixer. Ha.

Original Post here.

[STAFF PICK] by: @RaeVisita

[STAFF PICK] Fresh Guacamole

Prepare to be mindeffed. My first time watching this video it took me at least 10 minutes to process everything. I find stop motion so amazing because it’s so tedious. It’s a lot easier to do now since there are cameras that have higher shutter speeds than in the past when stop motion was first used in the early days of film (we’re talking black and white, no sound, George Melies work here). In any case, the way this short uses it is not easy. 

Director PES uses stop motion in creative and somewhat twisted ways. (Do not look up “Roof Sex.” Trust me.) He’s even set to direct the Garbage Pail Kids movie. In my opinion, not a movie that needs to be created. But hey, it does fit with his (or her) twisted creative outlook.

Posted by: Mel