You’ve probably heard a lot about Pinterest recently. And with good reason – it took the social mediasphere by storm heading into this year, and has quickly grown to be the third most popular social networking site in the U.S.

The social Web is moving toward a more visual presentation (Facebook’s transition to the Timeline format and its recent acquisition of Instagram are two examples), and social media users have embraced this trend. During the first three months of 2012, users uploaded 300 million photos per day to Facebook.

Pinterest offers its users easy access to content through a visual interface dominated by images. The format is simple, and sharing – or “re-pinnning” – content is easy.

Yes, Pinterest works. The question is… Is Pinterest right for your brand? How should you decide whether to pin or not to pin? Read the rest of this entry »

Often overlooked in the mix of media that create marketing touchpoints, customized, printed tents for events and location-based outreach are a significant branding opportunity. TentCraft is America’s leader in this niche, and an exclusive provider of MasterTent, the world’s premium tent provider.

Based in Traverse City, Michigan, TentCraft’s high-quality product and excellent customer service have led them to work with marketing agencies and marketing departments for some of the biggest brands in the country.

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Accel Partners is, by many accounts, the largest global venture capital partnership in the world. Their 30-year history is marked by collaboration with big names in technology, like Spotify, Cloudera, ComScore, Etsy, GroupOn, metroPCS, Rovio/Angry Birds, and Walmart.com, among many others. Most notably, they were among the first investors in Facebook.

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A bi-monthly look at the world of web technologies.

Instagram + Facebook
Facebook buys Instagram for like… a billion dollars.

Google Drive Detailed
Leaked press release gives us possible details of Google Drive, a new file storage service.

Discovering a Major Security Hole in Facebook’s Android SDK
Parse finds issues with Facebook’s SDK

Round Up of Web Browser Internals Resources
A link to links to help you understand your browser

Meteor
An interesting idea for a new IDE

Light Table
Another new IDE conecpt

Screen Resolution Alert
1366×768 takes over 1024×768 as most popular desktop resolution

Austin Kleon is a self-dubbed “writer who draws.” Many first became aware of his work through his Newspaper Blackout Poems and then later his inspirational talk, Steal like an Artist, that spread through the internetz like wildfire.

Kleon’s De-Signs have gone a bit more unnoticed but are definitely noteworthy and fun. The concept is simple: he snaps a photo of a sign and then edits the photo to say something new. Some of them are funny, some are sad and some are inspirational.

Here are two that we’re especially fond of:

Take a gander at the rest.

April Fool’s Day Jokes from Around the Web
A roundup of jokes no one fell for.

Duolingo
Learn a language while helping translate the web.

Paul Irish’s Talk at SXSW
Paul talks latest and greatest

The Developer’s Guide to New and Exciting Web Technologies
New technologies beyond HTML5.

BrowserQuest
An HTML5 online multiplayer game

Chrome Beats IE Market Share for One Day

The EMs Have It
Proportional Media Queries FTW!

What role does digital branding play in wine marketing? There are many ways to answer that. But here’s 20 slides with one important perspective: digital done right is always as much product development as it is traditional marketing. And the experience of wine is very much driven by expectations. So if what you’re doing online doesn’t actually make your wine taste better, then it’s probably falling short.

bootstrap-wysihtml5
A simple html5 wysiwyg editor.

Launch: The All New Basecamp
37signals launched Basecamp Next

Cutting the Mustard
The browser is a hostile environment.

A Simple Devise Diagram for Responsive Design Planning
They weren’t kidding.

Responsinator
View your site in a number of devices widths.

jurlp
A jQuery plugin for parsing URLs.

Apple release Safari 5.1.4 with improved Javascript performance on OS X Lion

Brighter Planet Reference Data
Need data sets? Brighter Planet has you covered.

Should All Web Traffic Be Encrypted?
With HTTPS getting cheaper, encrypting would be a good standard.

Responsive Navigation Patterns
Helpful tips on keeping your navigation responsive.

Remote Debugging with Chrome for Android
With Chrome for Android comes developer tools.

jQuery HTML5 Fullscreen Slideshow
A fullscreen slideshow that automatically deprecates.

Interpreted Languages
Comparing PHP, Perl, Python and Ruby

normalize.css
Normalize and preserve helpful browser defaults, instead of resetting them.

With both Anchor Brewing Company and Paul Hobbs Winery featured as webpicks on Communication Arts simultaneously, it’s the coveted CommArts roadblock.

Anchor Brewing’s new site is this week’s webpick of the week, and the Paul Hobbs website was featured as the webpick of the day for February 22.

Congrats to Anchor and Hobbs for this brand recognition…