How would Facebook look like in real life? Here’s the hilarious answer.
What really motivates us
This cleverly illustrated excerpt from Dan Pink’s talk at the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) gives you astonishing insights in what really motivates us and why monetary incentives are often counterproductive.
If you’re interested in the topic, be sure to check out Dan’s new book “Drive” on Amazon.com (or Amazon.de).
You can also watch Dan’s full 40-minutes talk or other illustrated RSA talks.
10 outstanding social media infographics
Check out this brilliant collection of outstanding social media infographics.
See the full list at Now Sourcing.
“This is the end of publishing” or: How to look at things from different angles
Watch this astonishing video, originally produced for an internal sales conference of Dorling Kindersley Books. Be sure to watch it up to at least the halfway point, there’s a surprise!
The way, this video is constructed, it serves as a powerful reminder that our (first) perception of things may not always be right and things might turn out to be completely different looked at from a different angle.
Maximizing living space
Impressive example of maximizing living space in Hong Kong by innovative interior design:
How big is the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Paul Rademacher’s GoogleMaps layer allows you to overlay the oil spill on any city. Go to paulrademacher.com/oilspill to get an idea of just how large it is.
Some impressive photography about the desaster can be found at www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/05/disaster_unfolds_slowly_in_the.html
Strange ways to organize
Recently at the Frankfurt airport: United Airlines assign two persons to order the line of people waiting for check-in which wouldn’t be there if two more persons would be assigned to carry out the check-in.
Yesterday at the Chicago airport: McDonalds assigns two persons to order the line of people waiting to order food which… (you get my meaning)
The Power of Photoshop
Of course everybody knows that these days no fashion photograph is published without prior heavy editing. Britney Spears gifted us with a before-after comparision by publishing unedited pictures of herself. I hope that this can indeed help to correct the distorted ideal of female beauty especially young girls are suffering under.
