Danny Brown, co-founder and partner at Bonsai Interactive, pulled together this great resource that you will want to bookmark and handy. Danny does a great job of filtering through a lot of published facts to pull together these 52 from the 5 most popular social networks.
Here are a few tidbits but you’ll want to check out Danny’s article, 52 cool facts about social media, for the rest:
* The average Facebook user has 130 friends.

* The average Facebook user is connected to 60 pages, groups and events.

* Twitter’s web platform only accounts for a quarter of its users – 75% use third-party apps.

* Twitter gets more than 300,000 new users every day.

* 80% of companies use LinkedIn as a recruitment tool.

* Executives from all Fortune 500 companies are on LinkedIn.

* The very first video uploaded to YouTube was called “Me at the Zoo”, on 23rd April 2005.

* YouTube receives more than 2 billion viewers per day.

* 77% of Internet users read blogs.

* Bloggers use an average of five different social sites to drive traffic to their blog.

The ‘POP-UP’2010 www.rogiermartens.nl/producten/pop-up/ is street-furniture that can be pumped out of the pavement by the inhabitants. The ‘POP-UP’ is a result of a collaboration of Carmela Bogman and Rogier Martens.

In the quarter Lombok in the city of Utrecht, The Netherlands the first Pop-Up was placed. ‘POP-UP’ is a street furniture that can be pumped out of the pavement by the inhabitants. After use it can be pumped back and it will disappear into the pavement. This means that the inhabitants have the freedom to decide for themselves, when they want to use the Pop-Up and in which way.

By using several sheets that can be fixed at any height, the choice is up to you whether you want to create a bench,  a stage or a lounge area. The possibilities are endless. The Pop-Up blurs the boundaries between public and private. After using the Pop-Up it is pumped back into the pavement creating a peaceful street scene without any obstacles. But if you feel like using the Pop-up, all the ingredients are right there on the street.

Designers Rahul Mahtani & Yofred Moik from Syracuse University (US)  came up with this concept called Google Envelopes. – enable to map the course of mail which can be sent through G-Mail itself.

These 1970′s Ads are beyond creepy. Do you think we’ve come a long way since then?

These creative bike helmets by a Russian ad agency could easily be integrated into a very effective campaign about Motorcycle safety.

As most of you have probably already heard in the past 48 hours, Wikileaks has released what they call the “Afgan War Diary” to the world. This war diary is a compillation of over 75,000 official military documents detailing everything from encounters with suicide bombers and accounts of multiple insurgent (civilian) deaths. The founder of the site, Julian Assange, spoke in a press conference yesterday afternoon about the controversial site, and explained that he believes that there is evidence of war crimes in the thousands of pages of leaked U.S. military documents. What does the emergence of these documents mean for our military, the safety of our soldiers, and the way news in written?

For much time, the media and the news have been at a push-pull conflict. Should news organizations set their sites on the dedication of producing purely straight news. Leaving out media biases, it is simply near impossible to make anything pure and straight-forward when money is involved. News outlets can only exist, unless they are non-profit, if people are watching them, which is where the funding of advertisers comes into play.WikiLeaks is non-profit and has received tremendous financial support in the past few months according to its founder. “We have raised a million dollars from the general public.  As a result we are enabled to have a sort of fierce independence that larger organizations find more difficult.  That said, of course, we are also immediately accountable to the public because that is where our money comes from, directly from the public, not from advertisers or foundations,” said Assange. Many local, national, and even world news organizations have been falling short when it comes to telling the public what they need to know in order to be socially responsible citizens that hold their government and eachother accountable for their actions.

We’ve all seen this ridiculous news report:

While we all can’t help but to sit, laugh, and be entertained by this, it is also kind of scary. There are so many issues that have gone unseen and unbeknownced to the public that it is a travesty to waste valuable news space for stories like this.

This one is even better:

It’s just like, it’s just like, a mini MALL! You said it.

This commercial is now on my ITunes. WIN!