Daily Viz from Visual Loop – 07/09/2010

The smartphone’s battle for market dominance has been increasingly intensified, with RIM, Apple and Google (and Nokia, and Samsung and Microsoft…) disputing the leadership. Today, the world still prefers RIM’s Blackberry, and Cellphones.org brings some facts about the reigning smartphone. We then move on to Hollywood, to look at another everlasting star, Steven Spielberg, with a graphic made by Personal Loans, and ChaCha answers to those who wondered about the perils of being a Lefty. From Slosh Spot comes a nice explanation about the science behind the formation of waves, and, finally, it looks like the U.S. Government is putting Edward Tufte for work, as we see in Mines SF‘s post.

16 Interesting Facts about the Blackberry

Steven Spielberg at the Box Office

What are the Perils of Being a Lefty?

The Motion In The Ocean: How Waves Are Formed

Does the U.S. Government Finally Care About Design?

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This story written by Tiago Veloso

Tiago Veloso works as an Independent Content Curator and Marketing/Branding Consultant, with a confessed addiction for everything web 2.0, besides design, photography, arts and green politics, with which he fills his Twitter stream (@TSSVeloso). He lives in Brazil, and started the Visual Loop project as a way of collecting and sharing the immensity of infographics and other forms of data-visualization spread throughout the internet.