One of our favorite blog topics is the use of social media in business. These days it’s more important than ever. As we noted in this post last week, social media is rapidly becoming a major factor in Search. And it remains an invaluable tool for communicating and establishing a dialogue with your customers. Read More-->

Marketing Vox reports that Facebook now leads Google in the number of referrals to several popular sites.

What’s your company’s social media strategy? Does your business have a Facebook page? Ever spoken to us about developing Facebook applications (you know we do that, right)?

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Do you know the game Exquisite Corpse? Traditionally, you play by having one person in a group write down the first sentence of a story. Then another person adds another sentence. And so and so on until you get a complete (although often hilariously garbled) piece. Read More-->.

Speaking of business thought leaders, Seth Godin has some interesting thoughts on creativity and the current economy, two subjects we’ve been posting about regularly over the last couple of weeks. Check out

Seth’s Blog: Grave new world. Godin is also one of the featured speakers at the 2009 TED Conference taking place in California this week. You are visiting the TED blog for updates aren’t you??

How can organizations foster creativity? Can innnovation be taught? And how can companies create environments where new ideas are generated on a daily basis? These are questions often asked by developers and interactive design groups. But digital media is hardly the first creative segment to be faced with these challenges.

Carl Potts, is a former Editor in Chief Read More-->?

How can you best graphically represent large data sets? All interactive designers ask this question on a regular basis.  But the folks at Flowing Data spend more time thinking about the answer than just about anyone out there. They’ve recently selected their 5 Best Data Visualization projects for the year and the results are truly stunning.

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How do you know your headquarters are based in a city on the rise? When a London based newspaper devotes significant space to the revival of your colonial core. Check out the FT’s coverage of the revival of Bogota’s La Candelaria district!

FT.com / Weekend / House & Home – A flame rekindled.#8211; A flame rekindled.

Tech Radar UK recently published a great article on Interface design and why Apple remains the gold standard in this field. As Nick Merritt notes in his piece, “Fun matters because it creates a legion of advocates for a technology that slightly duller products do not”. Words to live by.

Why Apple is great at interfaces when others are not | TechRadar Team | TechRadar UK..