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Here's a collection of terrific social media infographics that might come in handy. As you probably know, infographics are visual representations of information, data, or knowledge. They illustrate information that would be unwieldy in text form and they act as a kind of visual shorthand, making information easy to understand and consume. They are driven by the same information as charts, but they're often a better form of communication because of their pleasant aesthetics - charts and graphs can communicate data, but infographics turn data into information.

"Using a list of countries generated by The World Factbook database, national flags of countries fetched from Wikipedia (as of 26th May 2007) are analysed by a custom made Python script to calculate the proportions of colours for each of them. That information is then translated into a piechart using another Python script. The proportions of colours on all unique flags are used to finally generate a piechart of proportions of colours for all the flags combined. Colours making up less than 1% may not appear."

16 Augmented Reality Business Models Visit www.personalizemedia.com/16-top-augmented-reality-busines... for more info. The purpose of this chart is to try to categorise types of business orientated augmented reality apps so to identify opportunities. The graph places 16 on axes of commercial value (likely revenue or marketing potential) vs adoption (scale of popularity vs a niche, client user base). It is a starting document to aid classification of this emerging commercial sector that I hope you find useful. The AR types, color key linked to each model is suggestive only. Uploaded by Gary Hayes on 14 Sep 09, 3.43AM CEST.

Applications like Foursquare, Brightkite, Google Buzz, Yelp and Gowalla all have the goal of connecting people who are online to offline locations where they can meet old and buid new friendships.

"I'm not sure why advertisers are promoting their Facebook and Twitter pages instead of their websites. It would be much wiser to invest in a blog as a landing page instead of using a platform, that you can't trust, and that doesn't yield monetary results."

enhancing one's current perception of reality

Your digital images turn into smart visuals with kooaba's image recognition services. Using Smart Visuals enables you to explore, share and organize the things you see.

As unconventional as this seems now, it could be the beginning a new wave of dialogue between people and their environment (let's call it e-dialogue for e-commerce).