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In a world where half of Facebook posts are now images, Web editors swoon over responsive design and brands place photos in tweets, it's clear the Internet has become a more visual place. Now, one company is looking to exploit the love of pictures with a product that both editors and advertisers can use to make digital images more interactive, engaging and, perhaps most importantly, super shareable.

This could be a good tool for brands who want to get content from sponsorships, etc., edited and posted as quickly as possible to social media.

With Sports on Earth, general manager Steve Madden and editor in chief Larry Burke have a simple goal for their new site: top-notch sportswriting. "On this property the central experience is reading," Madden said. "This is very much planting a stake in the ground and saying that we are about the written word."

In a reversal of today's content publishing model, print magazines pretty soon could start looking a lot like their app equivalents. "The next redesign of our titles will see them redesigned with our tablet versions in mind," magazine publisher Future's tablet editor-in-chief Mike Goldsmith told an industry forum this month. As publishers extend their print titles to iPad, they can choose either to repurpose the paper originals, which can seem lazy and ill-suited to the touch screen, or to custom-produce interactive apps with a native interface in mind, which is expensive.

Key initiatives this season range from shoppable runways to digital fashion shows to "social service," where social media platforms help organize rides and more for busy buyers, editors and bloggers.

"YouTube is testing out a new interactive feature that lets video creators add questions within their videos.  Video Questions Editor Beta lets you easily create a question that will pop up during your video to poll your viewers.  Read on to find out how it works."

just another example of social media affecting people professionally, her opinion tweet got her el fired-o.

"News Distribution Network isn't a household name, but news consumers sure watch a lot of the videos the company distributes. In fact, NDN broke the top 10 in comScore's ranking of top online video properties in October, with an audience topping 53 million. It just signed a deal with CBS Local to distribute video from 13 local CBS stations including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. And a handful of sites are now starting to let NDN remotely program video on their sites."

Also not for sharing on Pulse, but another app that's been dinged for NSFW content.

But you might be surprised by the second-leading source of the expected surge in traffic. It won't come from people, but from machine-to-machine communications, or "M2M." Think of sensors in cars and in appliances, surveillance cameras, smart electric meters, and devices still to come, monitoring the world and reporting to each other and to centralized computers what they're detecting. The chart below, reprinted from the Cisco report, shows just how extreme the jump in machine-to-machine communications could be. It is expected to grow, on average, 86 percent a year, and by 2016 it is expected to reach 508 petabytes a month, or half a billion gigabytes.

Wired editors Chris Kohler and Peter Rubin experience the new HD 1080p version of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset at the E3 expo. Watch their reactions and hear their detailed review in this episode of Wired's Game|Life. Watch on wired.com!

death to qwerty!

Blending of curation and commerce at gilt groupe

Kinda neat

Silly humans.