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This is a fun infographic by Adaptu, an online finance management site, comparing commoner weddings to royalty! It’s all American, but the Canadian dollar is on par so this can still ring true :)

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Source: HubSpot

From the desk of George Ellis, a former copywriter for Leo Burnett, Y&R/Wunderman and McGarrah Jessee comes an infographic for the ages.

It had me at IMDB. Love this!

Source: MediaBistro.com

This WSJ infographic accompanies an article about how social widgets can track users’ browsing habits, regardless of whether or not we click “like” or “tweet” buttons on a certain page.

Here is their explanation of how social widgets for sites like Facebook and Twitter will be able to tell that we’ve been spending an unhealthy amount of time online reading gossip blogs and watching pirated movies:

For this to work, a person only needs to have logged into Facebook or Twitter once in the past month. The sites will continue to collect browsing data, even if the person closes their browser or turns off their computers, until that person explicitly logs out of their Facebook or Twitter accounts, the study found. 

Collecting data from Internet users via cookies is not uncommon or new, something to keep in mind since WSJ does cast a shady light on these practices. The article cites “growing concern about the privacy of Internet and smartphone users” but this also seems to be a given fact — it’s the price we all end up paying for personalized web experiences.

Is there an alternative solution for social sharers to have our cake and eat it too?

Read more details from the article here.