This Friday, Cut & Paste will have one final international showdown between 48 champions in 2D, 3D, and motion design from 16 cities around the world.

George Parker is the perpetrator of adscam.typepad.com. Every week he shares his opinions on the advertising world with PSFK.

OKCupid’s recent analysis of successful dating interactions got us thinking: what can these lessons of online dating teach us about relationship-building on a larger scale?

Chinese girls are buying ‘homes’ at iPartment, a social networking/gaming site that lets users interact with their ‘love apartment’ via pets, diaries, gardens, and games all while looking for someone to share it with.

A massive hi-tech athletics tournament is scheduled to take place between three cities in the north-east of England. All three will compete against each other simultaneously from there respective locations within a digital court.

theblogpaper is a user-generated blog-newspaper hybrid that has recently appeared in London.

Urban Places is a project that aims to collect a compendium of user-submitted photographs and descriptions of favourite urban spaces.

Gross National Happiness Index – a new application from Facebook, can track global highs and lows from aggregating key words within user status updates.

Internet Eyes is an online service that opens up access to closed-circuit cameras to the public, awarding cash prizes up to £1,000 each month to the users who catch the most crooks.

Web-art godfathers Jodi whipped up a fascinating interactive art project for WEBCRA.SH/2900 called Twitter SK8.

Hot on the heels of the popular Human Tetris on Skateboards video comes Sergej Hein’s Berlin Block Tetris. Created in After Effects as a university project, Hein’s video is a parody of the old socialist building style.

The City of San Francisco recently opened DataSF.org, a website to help improve government transparency, and increase citizen access to city data.

PSFK caught up with gdgt founder Peter Rojas recently, and he discussed what his new gadget site is all about, and what inspired its unique structure.

Piers Fawkes offers some thoughts on the alternative ways we are using different communications platforms.

Behance is a company that organizes the creative world to make ideas happen. Every Wednesday, Behance shares 5 fresh art and design projects from their network with PSFK.