Facebook Turns 8, And Together We’ve Grown

I’ve been on Facebook for 2,561 days, having joined during the first year of its existence and my first year of college.

As the world’s largest social network turns 8 years old today, millions of people will reflect on the impact Facebook has had on their lives, however big or small… read more

Top 10 Google Chrome Plugins for Small Businesses

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

The Google Chrome Web Store has made it easy for anyone to stay organized, and the browser has gotten much faster, as we’ve noticed in the beta… read more

Comics of the week #115

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Olapic’s Crowd-Sourced Photo Campaigns Becoming a Sports Trend

Crowd-sourced social photo sharing appears to be the latest community engagement trend among professional sports teams, largely powered by the online startup Olapic.

Olapic’s service allows organizations to quickly and easily enable fans, readers or other types of audiences to submit photos of their own experiences at a game or… read more

Donald Trump, Deion Sanders and Apolo Ohno Star in Century 21′s Super Bowl Ad [VIDEO]

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.

Century 21 has enlisted a team of celebrities for its first-ever Super Bowl commercial.

Reality TV star and business mogul Donald Trump, Pro Football Hall of Fame member Deion Sanders and Olympic speed skater Apolo Ohno… read more

Daily Inspiration #1048

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

GE’s Beth Comstock: Social Media Redefines the Focus Group

Mashable’s Davos coverage is presented by BMW i, a new concept dedicated to providing mobility solutions for the urban environment.

GE’s Chief Marketing Officer Beth Comstock sat down with Mashable founder and CEO Pete Cashmore to talk about her role leading business… read more

How Social Media Backlash Made Susan G. Komen Cave [VIDEO]

The online storm surrounding Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s decision to pull funding from Planned Parenthood came to a close on Friday when Komen reversed its decision.

Score another point for social media.

On Tuesday, the Komen Foundation announced new funding criteria that would severely restrict grants set aside for… read more

Publish Magazines and eBooks Quickly with Calaméo

From Amazon’s runaway success with the Kindle platform to Apple’s new iBooks Author tool to help writers create interactive eBooks for their iPad iBooks store, eBooks are the story of the day for digital media. If you’ve ever considered writing a book or creating a new magazine, you’ll want to… read more

Free download: Infographic Vector Kit

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22 Examples of Love and Dating Logo Design

22 Examples of Love and Dating Logo Design

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Logo Alert: Refresh your Brand with a New Logotype

Logo Alert: Refresh your Brand with a New Logotype

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Daily Inspiration #1047

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

What the Heck Is Groundhog Day? [VIDEO]

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.

Punxsutawney Phil saw its shadow on Groundhog Day morning, which historically is a sign predicting six more weeks of winter. But what does it all really mean?

The Feb. 2 holiday — celebrated in the U.S…. read more

How to make your type more appealing on the web

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Easily Create a Website with Moonfruit

Many tools and packages exist online to help people create websites with minimal effort and involvement. Of course, each one has their own strengths and weaknesses. Some are more aimed at creating blogs, while others are better for single-page info sites.

Moonfruit is another competitor in this market. It looks stylish,… read more

Daily Inspiration #1046

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

How To Shoot 360 Degree Panoramas While On The Road – With Audrey Scott And Daniel Noll Of Uncornered Market

It’s worth your while to click on the image above to be taken to the full sized 360 view of the Shah-é-Chéragh Mosque taken by Audrey Scott and Daniel Noll of Uncornered Market.com. As DPS evolves, we’ll be adding in the ability to see these immersion style Shockwave files on… read more

30 Incredibly Useful Apps for Video Pros and Novices

The Mac has long been the homestead for effective and easy video editing, graphic design, and video compressing for many professionals and novices alike. If you are at all interested in getting your creative juices flowing, video wise, you will absolutely love this roundup. Many people know the big video… read more

Win 250 die cut business cards from UPrinting

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Men Must be Graduates of Elite Universities to Join New Invite-Only Dating Site

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.

Name: Sparkology

Quick Pitch: Sparkology is an invite-only luxury dating site for young professionals.

Genius Idea: Sparkology members… read more

The 10 Most Blatant Design Ripoffs in Social Media

Pinspire vs. Pinterest

It doesn’t get more blatant than this. Pinspire is pretty much a pixel-for-pixel Pinterest clone, created… read more

60 Creative And Brilliant Logo Designs For Your Inspiration

60 Creative And Brilliant Logo Designs For Your Inspiration

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You’ll Download Physical Objects Sooner Than You Think, Thanks to Kids Like These

File-sharing site The Pirate Bay caused an Internet stir last week when it introduced a new content category called “Physibles,” essentially designed to allow people to pass one another physical objects for download. The term refers to data files that are actually able to become physical objects via 3D printing… read more

50 Impressive Examples Of Vehicle Logo Designs

50 Impressive Examples Of Vehicle Logo Designs

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eBay CEO: NFC Payments Need Standardization to Succeed [VIDEO]

Mashable’s Davos coverage is presented by BMW i, a new concept dedicated to providing mobility solutions for the urban environment.

eBay CEO John Donahoe sat down with Mashable CEO and founder Pete Cashmore to talk about the future of ecommerce and mobile… read more

Colorfull Vector logo Elements

Colorfull Vector logo Elements

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Daily Inspiration #1045

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‘Mob Mentality’ Destroyed SOPA, Says Viacom CEO

“Are you surprised at the speed [SOPA and PIPA] fell apart?” AllThingsD‘s Peter Kafka asked Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman at a gathering of several hundred media and technology professionals in Laguna Nigel, Calif., Tuesday morning.

“It became a mob mentality,” Dauman complained, referring to the week-long series of online protests… read more

Best Logos In The First Month Of The Year

Best Logos In The First Month Of The Year

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Best of the Vector Web – January 2012

Each month, we search the web for the best vector-related content and showcase it here for you all to enjoy. This month, we showcase high quality tutorials on mixing vector techniques with photography, we learn how to create vintage style lettering that has a grainy retro style, dive deeper into… read more

Web designers, what to look for in a CMS

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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.118)

This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)
If you would like to receive our daily updates and keep up to date with the latest and greatest articles and resources from the… read more

Syrian Hactivisits Attack Al Jazeera English

Syrian pro-government hacktivists attacked Al Jazeera English‘s website Sunday, in response to the news organization’s “Syria Live Blog,” which reports on the Arab League’s observer mission to Syria.

Visitors to Al Jazeera English’s blog saw a picture of President Bashar al Assad over a Syrian flag, which read, “You got hacked… read more

The Swarm: Short Horror Film Made Entirely on Phones [VIDEO]

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.

The Swarm is all about shallow breathing, heavy petting and Xperia smartphones. The short horror film, shot entirely on Sony’s Xperia Arc S phones, follows a group of (mostly) horny teenagers in London who come face… read more

Julian Assange Records The Simpsons Guest Spot While Under House Arrest

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is set to play himself in the 500th episode of The Simpsons, according to a report by Entertainment Weekly.

Assange — who has been the subject of a grand jury investigation in the U.S. that has been going on for more than 500 days amid sex crime… read more

How to Illustrate a Microscope in Illustrator

The microscopes is a symbol of our civilization. Throughout this tutorial on how to illustrate a vector microscope you’ll take advantage of numerous Illustrator tools. You will learn how to use blends, art brushes and 3D rendering in Adobe Illustrator. Let’s get started!

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First, create a horseshoe shaped path, filled… read more

The Psychology Of Color In Design

Have you ever wondered why you seem to be getting hungrier while waiting to place your order at a fast food place or why you eat faster than any human should ingest that poison? Have you ever heard of a “power tie” in business?

There are things that excite the human… read more

New developer tools in Firefox 10 and 11

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Send in the Toons: Collection of Creative Cartoons

For most of us whether it was the Saturday morning programming, the Sunday morning comic strips, more, or all of the above cartoons have been a major part of our adolescent and adult lives. For whatever reason, we seem to be drawn to the often exaggerated drawings of cartoonist’s pens…. read more

Remarkable ‘Joy of Books’ Animation Brings Books to Life [VIRAL VIDEO]

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.

Relax and enjoy the magic that ensues when you combine a bookstore full of books, skillful stop-motion animation, haunting music, a boatload of creativity and 28 volunteers: The Joy of Books is a brilliant video… read more

35 Great Logos Inspired By Cats

35 Great Logos Inspired By Cats

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30 Clever Logos With Hidden Messages

30 Clever Logos With Hidden Messages

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What’s Hot: Pronunciation

Sometimes the smallest things ignite the most heated arguments, this week we were all asking the question; how do you pronounce “Mac OS X”?

This is the second episode in feature series called ‘What’s Hot’ that will look to give you something interesting to chew on at the end of the… read more

Our favorite tweets of the week Jan 23-Jan 29, 2012

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Colour Combination Makes a Better Impact in Logo Designing

It’s undeniable. Branding is the life blood of any business. Even for small businesses, you’ve gotta build brand identity, or be ready for your company to go belly up.
A big part of many company’s brand identity is the logo. It’s like the face of your company…. read more

Sound Design: Audio Branding: Airela Case

What is audio branding?

“Audio branding describes the process of brand development and brand management by use of acoustic elements within the framework of brand communication. It is part of multi-sensory brand communication and holistic corporate design. Audio branding aims at building solidly a brand sound that represents the identity and… read more

Best of the Week #207

It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s… read more

Comics of the week #114

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30 Marvelous Valentines Themed Logo Designs

30 Marvelous Valentines Themed Logo Designs

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Elaborate ‘It Gets Better’ Video Resembles ‘Glee’

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.

An extensively choreographed “It Gets Better” music video — set to Lady Gaga‘s “Hair” — gained steam Friday after the mega pop star gave it her seal of approval on Twitter.

This is so AMAZING tinyurl.com/7jd638s #HairMusicVideo… read more

60+ Latest Logo Designs for Design Inspiration

60+ Latest Logo Designs for Design Inspiration

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Creative Logo Design Samples For Logo Designers

Creative Logo Design Samples For Logo Designers

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College Sports League to Stream Its Own Content Online

With television broadcast deals that reach into the billions of dollars, the delivery of college sports as entertainment has long been huge business.

Now the Pacific-12 Conference is aiming to create what would likely be college sports’ largest and most futuristic mode of digital distribution yet — a wholly league-owned… read more

7 Lead Generation Trends For 2012 — What You Need to Do Right Now [SPONSORED]

This post is brought to you by HubSpot, an inbound marketing software company based in Cambridge, MA, that makes a full platform of marketing software, including marketing automation tools. For more information on sponsored posts, read here.

You decide. Is this 2012 AD or is it 0008 FB — the eighth… read more

30+ Single Color Logos Design For Designers Inspiration

30+ Single Color Logos Design For Designers Inspiration

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Solar Storm Smacks the Earth — And We’ve Got Video

A massive wave of charged particles exploded from the sun and hit Earth earlier this week in what NASA calls “the most intense solar energetic particle storm since 2005.”

The resulting magnificent light show has been making the rounds around the Internet through videos like the one below, taken… read more

40 Negative Space Logo Designs

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In this post we have collected 40 well design negative space logo designs. Enjoy!! If you like these logo designs you might also want to check out our previous posts below.

40 Creative Logo Designs

28 Clean and Creative Logo Designs

24 Clever and Unique Logo Designs

Australian wine

Ignite

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15 Icon Design Photoshop Tutorials

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Icons are a very important element of web design and play a big role in a website. Designing the perfect icon is definitely a challenge and is always good to have resources and tips in this matter. Today we decided to gather a few Icon Design… read more

15 useful plugins for multi-author blogs

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Useful CSS Snippets for Your Coding Arsenal

CSS is a beautiful language but it can also be frustrating at times. Certain CSS solutions don’t work on certain browsers (cough Internet Explorer cough) and much of your time can be spent debugging code.

Thankfully there are lots of great CSS snippets available online that fix common problems and design… read more

Daily Inspiration #1041

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Meet the Man Behind the ‘Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger’ [VIDEO]

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.

Randall, the elusive narrator of the mega sassy “Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger” viral video was recently caught on footage during a promotional tour for his book, Honey Badger Don’t Care: Ewwww! What the Hell is That?!

“This… read more

Logo Design: Games

We keep going through our weekly journey checking out great logos! We’re thinking ahead and we want to find new topics, good ones, to share with you guys. Last week we had a great post about logos with butterflies, and today it’s all about game logos!

Every week we search through… read more

9 Steps to Starting Your Freelance Web Design Business

So, you want to be a freelance web designer? Ah, the glamor of it all.

Your own boss, answering only to the call of your creative muse… get up, feel inspired, do some work, go for a walk, laugh knowingly with other freelancers who have also discovered The Secret… read more

7 mistakes developers make

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Contactually Prioritizes Contacts and Communication in Email Network

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.

Name: Contactually

Quick Pitch: Contactually is a proactive personal assistant for your email contacts.

Genius Idea: Contactually automatically prompts… read more

Comedian Crashes at iJustine’s and 12 Other Celebrities’ Homes [VIDEO]

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.

The man who lived in an IKEA store for a week, hit up 171 Starbucks within 24 hours and even brought a goat to an Apple Store is back. This time, comedian Mark Malkoff embarks on… read more

Daily Inspiration #1040

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

20 Examples of Circular (Rounded) Logo Designs

20 Examples of Circular (Rounded) Logo Designs

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Creating Social Media Logos: 20 Great Examples

In this fast-paced world of competitive business, internet is undoubtedly the fastest medium of promotion to the masses. One of the most revolutionary contributions of online media is the advent of social media and social networking. The power and influence of blogs and social media platforms have a significant impact… read more

IMAX CEO: 3D Isn’t for All Movies [VIDEO]

Mashable’s Davos coverage is presented by BMW i, a new concept dedicated to providing mobility solutions for the urban environment.

Mashable CEO and founder Pete Cashmore spoke with IMAX CEO Richard Gelfond about the growth of the company, the rise of 3D… read more

13 Important Resources for Learning How to Design Typefaces and Full Fonts

If you’re serious about creating a typeface design, then you’ll need some solid resources to get started. Learn effective typeface design workflows, how to take an initial spark of an idea from sketch, through Illustrator, into Fontlab, and then work your creation into a complete and custom font design. Here… read more

60+ Latest Logo Designs for Logo Design Inspiration

A Logo is a graphical element that, together with its logotype (a uniquely set and arranged typeface) form a trademark or commercial brand. Typically, a logo’s design is for immediate recognition. The logo is one aspect of a company’s commercial brand, or economic or academic entity, and its shapes, colors,… read more

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12 Apps That Should Be in the Apps Starter Kit

If you are searching for good apps at the Mac App Store, chances are you’d take a look at the featured app categories on display.

I’m talking about the “Apps for Writers,” “Get Stuff Done,” “Better Together,” and “Great Free Apps” categories where apps similar to one another are grouped together… read more

Davos 2012: What’s Your Question For the World Economic Forum?

Mashable’s Davos coverage is presented by BMW i, a new concept dedicated to providing mobility solutions for the urban environment.

Documented@Davos

The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, has been called one of the most important conferences in the world. Once a year, heads of state, politicians and leaders from across the… read more

Creative Coffee and Tea Logo Designs

Creative Coffee and Tea Logo Designs

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Facebook Timeline Roll Out: Everything You Need to Know

Facebook announced Tuesday that profiles, as many of us have known them for years, will be gone in a few weeks — replaced by Facebook Timeline.

Facebook Timeline, the new interface equipped with a plethora of features, was introduced last September at the annual f8 conference in San Francisco. Eager… read more

Super Bowl Ads Will Get a Second Life on Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC]

If you were a Super Bowl viewer in 1984 who left the room during Apple’s famous “1984″ ad introducing the Mac, you would have soon discovered you made a massive mistake.

In those days before YouTube, if you missed a Super Bowl ad, you really missed it. That was especially true… read more

Logo Design: 36 Emblems & Badges

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In this post we have 36 well design and emblems & badges. Enjoy!! If you like these logo designs you might also want to check out our previous post below.

28 Clean and Creative Logo Designs

40 Creative Logo Designs

Tokyo Bicycles

Personal Logo V.1

Growcase Simplexity Service

Assembly… read more

What Should You Do Before Launching a (Successful) Blog

In the past few years, the Internet has developed more and more, encompassing new online presences everyday; this can make one think about this amazing trend and when it will present a lower growth ratio. It is practically impossible to state exactly how many websites are being created each year… read more

How to make your own icon webfont

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The Pirate Bay Wants You to Download Physical Objects Now

File-sharing site The Pirate Bay is apparently expanding its reach into letting users pass one another physical objects to download.

Well, that’s actually not the case just yet. But the site is introducing a new category called “Physibles” in anticipation of a day in which “you will print the spare… read more

4 Things RIM’s New CEO Can Do to Fix the Company

Research in Motion, better known as RIM, used to be one of the most dominating smartphone makers in the world. But it’s seen its market share — and reputation — flounder of late. So it wasn’t that surprising that the company finally did what many investors were asking for: get… read more

Daily Inspiration #1038

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Handle This: Google+ Finally Allows Pseudonyms

The Google+ Common Name policy will never be the same. Google promised it would take a close look at the requirement that only real names and identities reside on its seven-month-old social network, and now the search giant has reversed course, allowing both nicknames and full-fledged pseudonyms on Google+.

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25 new business cards – Best of January 2012

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Introduction To Linux Commands

At the heart of every modern Mac and Linux computer is the “terminal.” The terminal evolved from the text-based computer terminals of the 1960s and ’70s, which themselves replaced punch cards as the main way to interact with a computer. It’s also known as the command shell, or simply “shell.”… read more

Augmented Reality: the future of digital media

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USB Drives That Make You Jump Drive For Joy!

In the Stone Age of computers and digital storage, there were little “floppy disks” that promised holding an entire megabyte of space… although it was really only 978 kilobytes. AOL would send these little plastic disks to every household each and every month, hoping computer users would sign up for… read more

StumbleUpon: 10 Tips and Tricks for Power Users

Thousands of websites are created every day, yet sometimes the Internet feels a bit stale. How do you filter through all of the junk when you want to discover something new?

StumbleUpon is a site that randomly shuffles through websites, curating content and information specifically for you. Since its start, the… read more

Our favorite tweets of the week Jan 16-Jan 22, 2012

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2012 Olympics Logo Evolution: 1932 – 2012

2012 Olympics Logo Evolution: 1932 – 2012

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Common Logo Design Mistakes you should Avoid

Common Logo Design Mistakes you should Avoid

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10 Smart Logos with Hidden Symbolism

10 Smart Logos with Hidden Symbolism

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Top 10 Twitter Pics of the Week [PICS]

There’s no need to go through 30 million pictures posted on Twitter last week when you have our top 10 Twitter pics of the week.

Using a special algorithm developed by our partners at social media search engine Skylines, we’ve narrowed down that plethora of pics to find the diamonds in… read more

The little people project, lovely tiny scenarios in public places

Embankment, London Embankment, London

Stuttgart, Germany

Fantastic Voyage

Acton, London

Wandsworth, London

Grottaglie, Italy

Southmere Lake, London

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