Social networking site Architizer is being promoted as a “Facebook for Architects,” enabling architects, architecture curators, clients, critics and fans to interact.

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.

Robo.to, is a mobile service that allows visual status updates with 4-second videos and multi-platform integration.

Using social networking tools, Filipino citizens were able to band together to help victims of a recent flood.

For those of you who may be overwhelmed or just plain turned off by Facebook’s constant additions of new features and layout changes, there is great news. You can now avoid all that by switching to Facebook Lite.

In a digital age rife with an endless stream of distraction, from email updates to text messages, it’s important that we get our priorities straight. This handy hierarchy created by Information is Beautiful helps ensure that your limited attention span is always focused on the most important detail of the moment.

Most social networks or media sharing sites thrive on their unique offerings or exclusivity, but a new site called thisMoment hopes to bring together their disparate functions into a single portal.  thisMoment offers traditional ways of uploading photos or video to the site, but can also pull in material from other sites like Flickr, Facebook or YouTube.  The interface for thisMoment resembles a Flickr slide show with more options and the comment system is arranged to share emotions under an entry starting with “This moment made me feel…” as well as the usual space for snarky Internet one-line comments.  The [...]

PSFK recently conducted a review of global brands that are doing “good” in regards to innovation, environmental responsibility and social collaboration. From this exploration, we’ve created the Good Brands Report 2009.
We looked at the companies we were writing about on PSFK.com and then asked a panel of cross industry global experts from the Purple List to tell us which of 40 common brands on PSFK were considered ‘Good’. These companies represent businesses from which we should learn. They are not just the well-known brands of the day but also companies that lead by example. Beyond the top 10 Good Brands, [...]

Yesterday we wrote about apartment swaps for creative professionals. Today the turn has come to hyperlocavore, a free yard sharing community. A locavore eats locally as much as possible. A hyperlocavore on the other hand [...]

Swedish software and design company The Astonishing Tribe are currently developing Augmented ID, an augmented reality concept for mobile phones. This utilizes facial recognition software (supplied by Polar Rose) to visualize the digital identities of those around you.
By simply aiming your mobile device at someone, you would be able to access that individual’s pre-selected information through floating icons that would appear around their image. These could contain anything from a phone number and email address to links to their favorite content or social networking platforms.
Here’s a short video demonstration:

[via Engadget]

Clay Shirky highlights one of the true conundrums of our digital lives; the realization that internet isn’t as impermanent as we’d like to think, particularly when it comes to our social media profiles. To that end, Shirky’s cursory Google search uncovers numerous users’ last ditch efforts to rid themselves of their pesky LinkedIn accounts, changing their login names to telling pseudonyms like Mr. Delete This Account and  delete delete delete delete delete delete, along with”two users named Delete My Profile, four named Delete This Profile, and no fewer than ten named Unsubscribe Unsubscribe.”
Establishing these online presences can certainly open up new opportunities, but as these [...]

Social media is revolutionizing our lives as individuals and as marketers. In the last year, Facebook exploded globally and Twitter grew by a staggering 1382%. Last week Google launched the ‘Wave’, a new in-browser collaboration tool, ushering in the era of real time, aggregated communication.
Leading corporate brands are responding. The list of Fortune 500 companies using social media reads like a ‘Who’s Who’ including Coca-Cola, Wal-Mart, Intel, Nike, Motorola, Pepsi, Starbucks, GM, GE and IBM. Yet even as social media goes mainstream, what it means for us as individuals and how we speak as marketers is not yet clear.
To dramatize [...]

As I write this on a Sunday afternoon, after a splendid lunch accompanied by a bottle of rather fine claret, I am relaxing with my essential Sunday New York Times. Which, now that I live in Boise, Idaho, I don’t get ‘till late afternoon, as it has to be flown in from Seattle, then delivered by a family of local drug addicts, who sometimes have a problem getting out of bed in the morning.
But, that’s of little consequence to the main thrust of this week’s diatribe. After finally getting my mitts on the New York Times, I first read the [...]

Paper Beats Internet is an “analog” social networking site that uses hand-rendered drawings as communications tools. Users post an initial drawing on the Paper Beats Internet website, and others create comment and response drawings that work off of the first drawing’s theme. Besides being aesthetically pleasing, the time and care that goes into doing a drawing adds a sense of thought, warmth and depth to the usually quick, off-the-cuff world of social media. The project is a collaboration between the New Directions in Pictoral Design class at the Ontario College of Art and Design, and a group of invited collaborators.
Paper [...]

We’re looking forward to having Celestine Arnold, creative strategy consultant, join us at our upcoming PSFK Conference NYC 2009. Celestine will be speaking on the changing face of race in gaming, virtual worlds and social networks.
First, who are you and what do you do?
My name is Celestine Arnold and I’m a creative strategy consultant to brands and agencies. I generally work in the gaming, social media and digital spheres, but have worked across all types of industries. I find it is nice to mix it up a bit.
In one paragraph, can you explain what themes and ideas you hope to [...]