Motion Graphics: Countdown - HD
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PayPal's Mobile Payment Rocket
Mobile payments are on an exponential trajectory.
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Via BI
PayPal revealed that they processed nearly $4 billion in mobile payments last year, up from a miniscule $25 million in 2008. To give you an idea of mobile commerce's astronomical growth, PayPal initially predicted $1.5 billion in mobile payments for the year before raising before raising projections to $3 billion in June.
With rival Square now processing $11 million a day (up from $4 million in July), we are very bullish on the mobile payments market.
Forrester estimated in June that mobile commerce will reach $31 billion by 2016, and even that may look conservative now. Yesterday at CES, eBay CEO John Donahoe said that PayPal expects to handle $7 billion in mobile transactions this year.
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Facebook to reach One Billion users in September
Facebook says it has 800 million active users. Building a chart based on previous user number announcements, iCrossings says Facebook will probably reach 1 billion users sometime in August 2012. In the past, "active" has meant that these people log in once a month. What's truly stunning is that Facebook says more than 50% of its users log in every day.
Via Business Insider
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1000 stickers & 1000 kids - The Obliteration Room
The Obliteration Room… totally cool.
Via: thisiscolossal.com & GOMA
This space has been transformed into a series of domestic—style rooms, reminiscent of the average Australian home, filled with furniture and objects painted entirely white. This functions as a blank canvas that becomes ‘obliterated’ over the course of the exhibition through the application of brightly coloured dot stickers.
This series of images shows ‘The obliteration room‘ in its pristine state before the exhibition opened, along with the application of the very first dot stickers.
You can revel in ‘The obliteration room‘ during ‘Yayoi Kusama: Look Now, See Forever‘, on display at GOMA until 11 March 2012. You can also read more about Yayoi Kusama and the exhibition at ourdedicated website.
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Incredible Things That Happen Every 60 Seconds
Just one example of the mind boggling scale of online activity...
In a single minute there are over 695,000 status updates on Facebook.
Via: Business Insider
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Twine : Listen to your world, talk to the Internet
Want to hook up things to the Web? Maybe you want to get a tweet when your laundry's done, or get an email when the basement floods while you're on vacation. Even if you're good with electronics and programming, these are involved projects. Instead of worrying about wiring or networking code, you can focus on your idea.
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NIKE Laces
http://www.typographyserved.com/gallery/NIKE-Laces/2407112
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Android Market reaches 10 billionth app download
Interesting stats from BI - Android with over 600 devices in the market globally is definitely picking up momentum with consumers through choice. However the article notes that both app stores are growing at around the same rate.
Via: Business Insider
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This morning, Google announced that the Android Market had passed its 10 billionth app download.
Apple got there first -- it passed 10 billion in January.
It also got there faster, hitting 10 billion about 30 months after its launch in July 2008. Android launched in October 2008, so took about 38 months to reach the 10 billion mark.
However, Google also announced it is now at a billion downloads per month. Apple hit that mark in July of this year. So both stores hit that magic number about three years after launch. And both are now growing at around the same rate.
One more note: this doesn't measure the total number of apps downloaded because there are multiple app stores for Android. There's only one for Apple.
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Poster Collection
A very cool collection by designer Mats Ottdal
http://www.typographyserved.com/gallery/Typography-Posters/2235658
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A small collection of different typography posters. These are old and new type experiments, mostly just for fun.
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