These are just staggering numbers. According to Google’s AdPlanner stats, Facebook is the number one most-visited destination on the web. Weighing in at an unfathomably heavy 570 billion page views and 540 million users, the ubiquitous social network outranks every other non-Google site, taking more than 35% of all web traffic measured.

Dave Gray is the founder of XPLANE, with bills themselves as the “visual thinking company.” Or in other words they create stunning visuals to help clarify and/or explain complex business processes.  I’ve long been a raving fan of their work. Several years ago (I just found it) Dave did a presentation called Free the Facts. [...]

A select number of users have been seeing this since November, but Google has now officially taken the wraps off its new search look. The major addition is a left-hand sidebar that filters and categorizes results, but they’re also pitching the use of Google Squared and Wonder Wheel for comparing different things you’re searching for. [...]

American Consumers Want A Dialog With Business According to the 2009 Cone Consumer New Media Study, an online survey by Opinion Research Corporation among a representative U.S. sample of 1,048 adults, comprising “new media users,” 44% of American new media users are searching for, sharing or discussing information about corporate responsibility (CR) efforts and programs [...]

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everybody have a wonder, safe, and fun holiday season!