What would happen if I died suddenly? My online social profile is certainly going to slow to a dead stop, not so? In fact what, exactly, will happen to my Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, and even my boring online banking, pages? It’s not like the Internet really is Big Brother and is just going to miraculously know that I’ve popped my clogs. Or is it?

Thanks to a general lack of imagination and something called the building code, the average building is pretty boring. Brick. Glass. Cement. Maybe some, ooh, steel. Meh. On any average day in any average place it’s pretty hard to find inspiration from the buildings surrounding us.
Unless you are going to be living in Delft in the Netherlands post-2014 and plan to take the train a lot, that is

Take two typographers and some custom software add a pro driver and you’ve got an amazing new font created for Toyota. Awesome ‘making of’ video.

A premise of effective social media marketing and interaction is that it allows brands / products / initiatives / collectives to identify and build communities around similar interests. For me, this is the real differentiator as social media (blogs, social networks, forums, wikis….) give people an opportunity to respond and for conversations to develop and grow.

So when something like Twittorati arrives to aid my quest I get quite excited. Well, first I get freaked out that maybe Big Brother really does exist in the world of the web and can see how much surfing and Tweet watching I do in an attempt to do as little work as possible. But then I get over myself. (It takes an awful lot to feed laziness.)

Of course no war would be complete without minor players wading into the trenches, guns blazing. Enter Jolicloud www.jolicloud.com, a startup hailing from Paris, France, who proclaimed their hopes to give the big players a run for their money when it comes to powering the netbooks of this world on the very same day that Google announced Chrome OS.

The web offers all sorts of cool material to fuel inspiration and encourage the creative process.
Vimeo is full of amazing work from the realms of animation, film making, artistic commentary, and captures of beautiful moments from everyday life. Mashable have created an awesome feature of 12 amazing videos for design inspiration that are a [...]

I can’t tell a lie. I think I’m very busy and important. Well, busy at least. Which is why in the past I’ve had numerous moments where I tend to think Twitter really is for the birds. Do I really need to know from my best friend in his latest Tweet that he just spent five minutes in the loo wasting his company’s time and toilet paper? (You know who you are.)