From antique cartography to personalized logs, lots of beautiful connections mapped out this week! We also found visualizations that make sense of mythological relationships, suss out the virality of content, and a font like none other.

Where do people checkin in your town? What do people name their dogs in New York City? This edition of The Graphic Account answers all these questions and more.

There is no shortage of newsworthy events that emerge from the France’s LeWeb conference every year. We visualized what each day was all about.

I have always been fascinated by foursquare, and the most recent updates they rolled out are sweet! Last summer I wrote a rant about how I thought foursquare could improve, and the new event check-in is exactly what I asked for. I sat down with Eric Friedman (Director of Business Development at foursquare) in the foursquare NYC headquarters to discuss what foursquare is up to, and where it is going.

Leap Year combines many of JESS3’s favorite things: the internet, entrepreneurs, and drama.

Comic-Con 2011 was an amazing experience! Some highlights included: Seeing Stan Lee, Frank Kozik and Sergio Aragonés up close and personal; the energy of the audience; and looking at the costume details of the passionate masses.

The newest in the partnership with C-SPAN and foursquare, JESS3 is proud to have helped coordinate the network’s efforts to bring education and politics to the masses through the geosocial platform in the form of a dedicated foursquare C-SPAN badge.

Facebook’s “Like” button recently celebrated its first birthday—noting that 10,000 sites are integrating with the social plugin daily. A week ago, the evolution of sharing widgets continued with the launch of the “Send” button.

Looking at the location pages for Tahrir square makes it seem that much more real.

Our friends and frequent collaborators at foursquare just released an infographic outlining their tremendous 3400% growth in the past year. The infographic maps out where most check-ins took place around the globe, what the top train station, wine bars and hotels were (our NYC home away from home, the Ace Hotel, topped the list) along […]