TED is a non profit that is known for its inspirational. funny, and informative videos from conferences around the world. TED is actually an acronym for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It’s mission is to spread ideas and in my opinion, that’s what they’re good at doing. Every once in a while, I’ll see a tweet or Facebook update about a “must see TEDTalk” and then a link off to the website.

Have you visited the TED website lately? There’s now a new TED Quotes feature on the site. Basically, TED Quotes is a collection of some of the most memorable quotes said in TEDTalks and categorizes them by popularity and topic, and allows visitors to search through quotes as well. The quotes page also makes it very easy to share the quotes on a usability stand point.

The Super Bowl is a huge event on TV every year—we all know that. The game has always been social offline with all of the Super Bowl parties to attend, talking about the best commercials, and eating and drinking with friends, whether your team is in it or not. What’s interesting is how social the game has gotten the past few years online.

Here are some fun facts about the Super Bowl and social media this year:

Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or were just offline the past two days) you know that a lot of sites chose to “black out” in protest of SOPA and PIPA. Obviously these movements would greatly change how we interact with the Internet,  but I was also interested to see how sites would use design to “black out”. I don’t know about you, but I was pretty impressed.

I collected some examples of how all different kinds of sites chose to display their SOPA protests and came across some pretty cool examples.

I’m sure Google’s design approach is no stranger to you. Still, I felt the need to include it.