Thursday, July 28, 2011

What Color Is Your Culture?

Visual.ly info graphic maps cultures and colors (click to enlarge the graphic). Reminds me that in April, Forbes' Ed Zitron wrote about Visual.ly rolling out an easy-to-use tool for creating well-designed infographics this summer.

Source: Visual.ly

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Youth Counts

Nearly half of the world's population is under 25.

Source: World Population Foundation (WPF), Google's Think Quarterly

(Google just launched an online publication. The inaugural issue tackles innovation, from eight pillars of creativity to tomorrow's top thinkers. Yep, there's plenty of Google mentions, but it's not the lovefest one might imagine. In fact, not all writers or interviewees are enamored with the search et al giant.

India's Future in Numbers

"India has world-class information-technology exporters but imports lots of fridges; it has 15 times more phone subscribers than taxpayers; and in the coming years most Indians are likelier to be connected to a national, biometric, electronic identity-system than to a sewer."

Source: The Economist's article, "The half-finished revolution: India’s liberalisation began with a bang in 1991, but two decades on the unreformed parts of the economy are becoming a drag on growth. Time for another bang"