Oddcast has teamed up with Pointroll to create this cool Augmented Reality service which is driven from your webcam.

It’s called Get Me In The Head and although the performance is a little slow it’s still pretty cool

This video shows the features in case you don’t have a webcam.

Here’s an insightful look at some of the emerging Digital Trends from Frog Design

Facebook’s growth continues, here’s the latest statistics

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People on Facebook

• More than 500 million active users
• 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day
• Average user has 130 friends
• People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook

Activity on Facebook  Read more... (270 words, 2 images, estimated 1:05 mins reading time)

• There are over 900 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups, events and community pages)
• Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events

I never tire of watching videos which highlight the incredible statistics surrounding the penetration of the internet, and I’m still surprised by the growth in some of these statistics.

JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.

Sweden is known for it’s innovation which not only expresses itself in design, but also in creative campaigns.

Agency Forsman and Bodenfors decided to use one of Facebook’s built in features of “Tagging” to get the word out about Ikea’s Malmo store opening.  First, they created a Facebook profile for the store manager, Gordon Gustavsson. Then, over the next two weeks, uploaded images from of IKEA showrooms to his Facebook photo album.  Read more... (134 words, estimated 32 secs reading time)

Alan Long, Research Director for Hitwise reports that Social Media Traffic in Australia has nearly caught Search as depicted by the following chart.

Top 10 Social Networks in Australia are shown here, dominated by Facebook which boasts over 8 million Australians.

The net affect is that companies need more than ever to develop a strategy for Listening and Engaging with these networks so that they have the ability to influence consumers.

Here’s an updated video from the team at Socialnomics which includes some great examples of how social media is used to deliver real business results.

Social Media continues to be a topic generating quite a bit of buzz, and sometimes this buzz comes in the form of statistics.

Gary Haynes from Personalize Media has created this counter which demonstrates the raw volume of time and dollars associated with several key social media entities.

Here’s some of the key stats  Read more... (294 words, estimated 1:11 mins reading time)

• * 20 hours of video uploaded every minute onto YouTube (source YouTube blog Aug 09)

October 15th is Blog Action Day, where 10,000 bloggers around the world are writing about climate  change.

Social Media certainly provides a platform to harness the “collective” due to the global accessibility of internet and the ease of content publication which has given consumers a voice.  Cause marketing is certainly one of the early adopters of doing this, and I expect to see a continued growth in corporate sponsorship of these initiatives, demonstrating the merging of social media engagement and PR.  Read more... (274 words, 1 image, estimated 1:06 mins reading time)

The Economist has published this video which contains a series of interesting statistics about the changing media landscape.

Whilst the stats are US focused, they are representative of the changes that are occuring across the globe.