All My Faves

YouTube Rewind 2011 – Each year YouTube rewinds the year and compiles a list of the videos that caught our attention. Videos are chosen by calculating global view counts of popular videos uploaded throughout the year, and, in some instances, they aggregated views across multiple versions of the same video.

Below is my favorite video for 2011. Click here and find yours ..

Thousands of old, beautiful maps are sadly being kept from the public that deserves them — sometimes by clumsy or unwieldy government ftp sites, and other times by archives with steep fees for research, and steeper fees for reproduction. Not anymore the BIG Map Blog offers Enormous historical maps with free full access.

Start exploring these amazing maps by checking the Chevalier map of San Francisco (1912) and the Map of the coast of Rio de Janeiro (1780).

Attack of the cute is a collection of cute junk that Jared Wunsch and Hans Johnson find online throughout their work day. Instead of keeping all this cuteness to themselves they created Attack of the cute as a way to share what they find with the world. By the way if you were wondering what cute junk means check the pictures below for a glimpse of the cuteness you are about to reveal…

Frozen Candy – Release the frozen candy in this Christmas themed bubble shooter. Aim and launch your candy cannon, connect three or more candies of the same color to knock them down.

Fotopedia is breathing new life into photos by building a photo encyclopedia that lets photographers and photo enthusiasts collaborate and enrich images to be useful for the whole world wide web.

Fotopedia currently offers nine different free apps, click the image below to view them all. The latest one is called Wild Friends and offers absolutely fantastic photos of wild animals. Anyone looking to view amazing photos on their iPhone/iPad should defiantly check Photopedia. Wonderful.

Tastefully Offensive – Ready to laugh. Tastefully Offensive  is a humor website featuring funny pictures, videos and webcomics.

@twitterstories – Individual tweets can have a huge impact, see the video below as an example. Share your story by mentioning @twitterstories or by using the hashtag #twitterstories. Include a photo or video that helps illustrate your story.

Obsessed with Sound – Phillips present Obsessed with Sound. 1 Grammy Award-winning orchestra, 51 musicians, 10,197 music notes. Hear every detail.

Binga – Binga is a variety puzzle game that might drive you a little nuts. Use you wits and mouse skills to pass each level and make it on the leader-board. Careful though! Too much Binga could hurt your finga!

Howdy! – We have a lot of ways to send personalized cards to friends and family over the internet. But on the iPhone? Well the choice was pretty sparse until Howdy came along rather conveniently. It’s a free app, that allows you to snap a photo or short video, add it to one of their cutesy templates, and then send it as a greeting card to someone you love. We think Howdy works very nicely, and the interface is simple, clean, yet fun. Check out the cool site Howdy’s creators have made before downloading. Just click on the pic to get there.

Shelby.tv – Shelby.tv is the most amazing way to discover and enjoy web video. Shelby takes all the video your friends share across Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr and pulls it into one personally curated channel of video just for you.

Paperless Post – Remember the days when everyone communicated using paper and ink? Correspondence was a craft: personal, and intentional.

Paperless Post seeks to redefine the tradition of paper stationery so that people can send custom, personalized invitations and announcements with the same thought and care as previous generations, but the way we communicate today: online.

A Halloween Party invitation made earlier on paperlesspost.com!