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25+ Useful Infographics for Web Designers
Infographics can be a great way to quickly reference information.
Instead of pouring over figures and long reports to decipher data, an infographic can immediately make apparent exactly what a dataset actually means.
Below are more than 25 infographics that can be useful to web designers.
via @SeanHackbarth @jmansour and @JonHenke (if 3 conservo-techies approve, it has to be good)
Twitter Inc.’s founders still haven’t decided how to cash in on their popular Internet messaging service – to the delight of a rapidly growing audience. But the deliberate approach may not prevent a gold rush among opportunistic outsiders.
White House Gets its First Facebook App
First came the zombies. The cocktails. A fishtank app you could send your friends. There were Causes, and quizzes, and ways to demarcate which friend was actually a member of your family.
Now the White House has joined the fray, quietly launching the first White House Facebook app -- short for application -- in early June.
Study: Users spend more time on social networks than ever before, but Twitter's growth slows down
According to a new study from Nielsen, Internet users spend more time on social networks and blogs in May 2009 than ever before. The total number of minutes increased 82% year-over-year. Unsurprisingly, Twitter saw the largest gain in total new users among social networks, with a 1,448% increase in visitors from May 2008 to May 2009.
