Kinetic type video of social media stats from Erik Qualman’s Socialnomics v3 book.
This cool prototype from Berg plays with the size of tweets in your feed based on how often each person you follow tweets.
Frequent (or “loud”) tweeters’ messages shrink down, while tweets from people who don’t tweet as often expand to take up more space on your screen. By making tweets from the “quieter” folk stand out, Shuush offers a fun, simple twist on visualizing activity on Twitter, bursting with storytelling potential.
Here it is finally, Google’s version of Facebook: Google+
Read the official Google blog post here: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/introducing-google-project-real-life.html
Or take a video tour with sentimental music here: 
The Lytro camera makes taking quick snapshots quick again. When you click to take a photo, the camera captures all the light information it can and provides you with a digital file you can edit later.
Born out of founder Ren Ng’s years of research and PhD thesis, this development in digital photography has the potential to transform still shots into more interactive, varied pictures as the user can edit the photo to switch between different points of focus, adjust the light levels, etc.
Essentially, the technology lets you take your photos more quickly, and then play with them for longer. What sounds better than that?
Contributed by Christine Wilson
Google has launched a new search option built around what you love/like. Type in what you love, and it collects results for more than 20 different types of Google search/products in one page. Kind of fun. Not quite sure what the long term benefit is, but in terms of getting an fast overview on a topic or brand it could be useful.
Play around at: http://www.wdyl.com/#
Contributed by Josh Spanier
What do you get when you combine the mystical World of Warcraft with Foursquare?
World of Fourcraft uses the Google maps API and Foursquare to transform New York into a huge, WOW-inspired, multi-player strategy game fueled by check-ins. New Yorkers: declare your allegiance to a borough today!
As it’s well-put by Mashable, “the nerdverse might just explode.”
Via Mashable
There’s a new solution to a dead phone battery, and you can wear it on your body! That is, if you happen to be at a concert. And also have this crazy weird shirt. But the idea of using live sound waves to charge your phone — in this case, with the Orange Sound Charge T-Shirt — is fun, if a little impractical.
Twitter recently published two incredible data visualization videos showing the links between outgoing and incoming tweets from Japan following the March 11 earthquake. It’s a great example of how digital tools enable us all to communicate world wide.
From twitter’s blog:
“On Twitter, we saw a 500 percent increase in Tweets from Japan as people reached out to friends, family and loved ones in the moments after the earthquake. The video below shows the volume of @replies traveling into and out of Japan in a one-hour period just before and then after the earthquake. Replies directed to users in Japan are shown in pink; messages directed at others from Japan are shown in yellow.”
Check it out here
TheSartorialTwist.com cleverly serves up a random outfit pieced together by strips of three different fashion street scenes.
While the utility factor might not be huge, the delight is definitely there in simply refreshing the page to see a new combination— sometimes scattered, sometimes synchronous, often funny — appear.
The choices brands make to cultivate their own unique voice and personality on the Internet are often interesting. Here, a well-established brand, General Electric, takes a trendy approach toward blogging.
By posting vintage shots — mostly using Instagram — of significant laboratory tests and research from the past 130 years, GE manages to create more of a niché web presence for their brand, thereby making it more intriguing, and perhaps more accessible, to a larger demographic.
http://generalelectric.tumblr.com/
Contributed by James Craig