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Rummage is a visual browsing tool for eBay users that improves the discovery experience through deep integration with popular visual bookmarking site Pinterest that should drive more traffic to seller's listings.

GE has introduced two ads that demonstrate the elegant use of data to visualize two (boring) lines of GE business: gas turbine and medical imaging. The ads can be seen on its website and YouTube. "The campaign is showing the impact of GE employees and technology on the world. We're looking for newer and better ways to tell that story," said Camille Kubie, manager of global brand and design for GE. The online videos featuring data visualization of GE's businesses were created to complement GE TV spots; they will not be aired on TV.

"Originally called Pinfluencer, Piqora was one of the first companies to offer Pinterest insights before Pinterest launched an analytics tool of its own. Its other customers include Sephora, Zappos, Etsy, Z Gallerie, Orbitz, and Steve Madden. Using an image recognition-based algorithm, Piqora can surface brand-related hashtags, images, and links from the three top visual networks, where keywords aren't enough. Hashtag-tracking technology is especially important on Instagram, where Piqora says brands have seven times more hashtags than they have followers."

Blog covering unique information visualizations from across the web.

"of information transmitted to the human brain is visual. MIT"

Updated for 2012

Cool sports data visualizations in the new york times

Badges/achievements in the workplace.

daily 8.12

Stephen Fry recently wrote a book that was acoompanied by a cool visual index iPhone app that provides the reader with an alternate form of experiencing the work.

weekly 9.16

Ogilvy has hired a team of artists to take visual notes during SXSW

3M's new service scans text and graphics to determine where a human's eyes are most likely to be drawn.

"The new section, which Spotify is labeling "Discover," surfaces content such as songs, playlists, and live-performance videos that Spotify users haven't discovered yet but which they may like based on their past listening habits. The section is laid out in a visual-driven experience incorporating images and videos in a big-tile grid that has some traces of Pinterest.  "It's another new canvas for us to look at the right way for brands to participate in the music experience," Mr. Levick said in the interview. "

"While at least Life-magazine-killer TV has served as a platform for the creation of some great artworks (HBO's "The Wire," created by newspaperman-turned-TV-auteur David Simon, comes to mind) and inspired the creation of new art forms (see the upcoming Smithsonian retrospective of the work of "father of video art" Nam June Paik), it's hard to imagine what of lasting value hot web-native media brands like Gawker and BuzzFeed are contributing to visual culture and art history. Which brings me to an email I got last Wednesday from Gawker promoting its "top story" of Dec. 5., titled "The 13 Most Powerful Images of Naked Celebrities of 2012," which quickly racked up more than a million page views. It was a sequel to a Gawker post from the previous day titled "The 19 Most Powerful Images of 2012," which was mostly a shameless, edited-down rip-off of a BuzzFeed post titled "The 45 Most Powerful Images Of 2012," consisting of intense wire-service photojournalism from Reuters, the AP, Getty and others, which derive most of their support from old-school print-centric publications around the world. Gawker's excuse for its act of, uh, curation: "Who has time to scroll through 45 pictures?""

like instagram filters for video content.

Microsoft Research Cambridge team built an augmented reality system to help brain surgeons visualize 3D brain scans.

Zappix aims to replace voice menus with a web-based visual option that determines the best department to connect them to before initiating the call.

 Visual SyncAR lets TV viewers see companion content through a mobile device that's synchronized with the video being viewed.