Unfortunately there is some truth to this illustration about the interaction of design and business.
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Here’s an ad for the Nintedno Wii’s new game “Wario Land: Shake It”. You have to follow this link to watch it, and you will see a video ad that literally shakes up the screen.
It is definitely a new and interesting way to use YouTube to advertise. In reality the whole page is a Falsh [...]

 
Here’s an interesting application that is made possible by the freedom of information act. The Presidential Campaign Contribution Map map allows you to view contributions by State, City, and even by person. Above you can see the distribution of donations by state. Below you can see my home state of Kansas and how they are [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68GvXbyLTnY

A lot of business people have been preaching the success of Apple and it’s design mentality. This video give syou glimpse why they aren’t saying the same about Microsoft.

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So you want to know what each party thinks is important. Just look at what they are saying.

The words that speakers used at the two political conventions show the themes that the parties have highlighted. Republican speakers have talked about reform and character far more frequently than the Democrats. And Republicans were more likely to [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhmahD_EbHY

New York comedian, Demetri Martin, presents an amusing flip chart presentation that uses data visualization techniques to shed light on topics like fart distribution and comparing height and drunkeness to how funny someone is.
Even if you’re not into info vis this is still hilarious.
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Thanks to the Olympics we now all know that Jamaica’s Usain Bolt is crazy fast. Now we can see just how fast he is compared to everyone else who has ever run the 200 meters.

The New York Times created this chart that plots the 250 fastest times fastest times in the 200 to show just [...]

Here is a great infographic from Wired that breaks down the multiple artist that are sampled in just one of Girl Talk’s songs on his new album.
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Here is a nice little scenario explanation of business model innovation. It makes good use of the slideshow format to tell a story.
Business Model Innovation Matters
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This explains why Radiohead’s new album “which was not only released online but also with a pay-what-you-please price strategy – earned [...]

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By soldering a bunch of LEDs into a cube shape these people have made a three dimensional display. It works just like those scrolling LED signs that are common in airports except this adds the third dimension of depth.
I think this works as visual eye-candy but would be hard to use for displaying textual information [...]