Those Europe maps that reveal the point of views of some country on Europe. There are more information after the jump on Brain Picking web site. 

 

Mapping European Stereotypes | Brain Pickings via kwout

 

Mapping European Stereotypes | Brain Pickings via kwout

The website below provides interactive visualization of Apple quarterly results. And Q1 2012 results are impressive when put in perspective with previous years. 

Apple’s quarterly results visualized via kwout

I like this one: 

Impressive E-Reader Library via kwout

I enjoy those minimalist illustrations like below (there are more after the jump) that wraps up the cultural differences between Paris and NewYork. From a cultural perspective, it’s like the top of an iceberg. 

Paris vs. New York: Minimalist Illustrated Parallels of Culture | Brain Pickings via kwout

Those illustrations are taken from the book Paris vs New York reviewed by the excellent Brain Picking blog: Paris vs. New York: Minimalist Illustrated Parallels of Culture | Brain Picking

An infographic that compares the benefits the HTML5 versus Flash for games. Flash is the winner most of the time. The full infographic is available after the jump. 

HTML5 versus Adobe Flash (infographic) | VentureBeat via kwout

I started to use Wunderkit to manage some personal projects and I found it interesting. The tool is still in Beta and is available for Web, iPhone and Mac.

Freeware Genius provides a review here: A new way to organize your life – Wunderkit

Digital inspiration recalls us that behaviors of the tools we use today often come from UNIX, as the keys h, j , k, l used as navigation keys in Gmail:

Why do Gmail and other Web Apps use j & k Keys for Navigation? via kwout

 
Those keys are also use for navigation in vi.

Found via Why do Gmail and other Web Apps use j & k Keys for Navigation?

Reuters introduced this week Social Pulse to show news via the social networks prism:

 

Reuters Social via kwout

The introduction blog post is available here.

Found vie ReadWrite New Reuters Site Turns News Decisions Over To Social Media

This week was published the preliminary prospectus for facebook IPO. The table of content summarizes some numbers about facebook: 

And facebook’s goal: 

Registration Statement on Form S-1 via kwout

Then I found this screenshot from FT Alphaville relevant about facebook user experience:

FT Alphaville » Become Facebook’s friend via kwout

Found via FT Alphaville » Become Facebook’s friend

Next Big Sound a startup that tracks online popularity of music and artists published a study called ” 2011 State of Online Music”:

The 2011 State of Online Music report includes major trends and highlights from 2011: overall consumption numbers, top networks and their most popular artists and days, the top 50 artists of 2011, as well as artists that progressed from our predictive Next Big Sound chart to our popularity leaderboard, the Social 50.

Next Big Sound – 2011 State of Online Music via kwout

Found via Read Write Web