Detailing the number of tweets, calls on Skype, music-streamers on Pandora, and other activities on the web, the folks at GO-Globe.com packaged a mountain of information in digestible rainbow-colored spokes extending from a classic stop-watch image, underscoring that all of this happens in just 60 seconds.

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Spectators at that opening ceremony held up a colored piece of plastic under their noses to create an image that, from a distance, looked like a map of the world.

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The Image Awards are presented annually by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the group's members select the winners.

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