Data Reveals Trends Among Social Media Platforms

In January, Openideas published data on trends in the social media space related to user login preferences across 170,000 websites using JanRain RPX for authentication. The data showed clear preference differences based on industry vertical (media vs. technology). Today, they shared an update of that data with Mashable and on this blog, with the added inclusion of the retail vertical and a quick look...

Evolution of Olympic Pictograms : Through the Ages

Every Olympics since 1936 has had a series of pictograms (i.e. icons that look like restroom signs) that represents the events. Here are pictograms for the Vancouver games, and here they are for the Beijing Olympics. Some series are distinct while others clearly sucked it up. Designer Steven Heller discusses the evolution of these Olympic pictograms in this video for The New York Times. Which set...