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Award-winning Typo-Animation that gives you a clear impression of the enormous amount of visual stimuli that plague us every day. Due to the immense scale of the visual bombardment, the commercial effectiveness has become utterly dubious.

In 10 years there will be 50 billion devices connected to the web, declared Ericsson President and CEO Hans Vestberg yesterday. That differs from Intel’s estimates that by 2015 the world will have 15 billion connected devices up from 5 billion now. However, the point is the same — mobile broadband and cheap chips equal a connected network of gadgets.

Twitter’s new location feature, Places, will give developers a structured and curated database of places from around the world. That will allow tweets to be associated with the actual location they originated from, in a way that’s more decipherable and interesting than lat-long coordinates. It’s not necessarily a direct competitor to Foursquare or Gowalla, but it serves much of the same purpose for noting your location and broadcasting your comments about it in context.

Social media specialist Vitrue, which aids brands in building their customer bases on social networks, tried to put a media value on such communities.

The firm has determined that, on average, a fan base of 1 million translates into at least $3.6 million in equivalent media over a year.

SyncFu is a tiny widget for your web shop. It aggregates price concerned visitors in order to achieve volume discounts on your offerings.

The discount grows with the group size, proportionally to your previously given pricing. It's an incentive based system, and as everyone gets the last price after your deadline, all participants virally share your offer with their friends across social networks.