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A new infographic by Intuit looks at the cost of starting a new business in the United States as compared to other countries around the world. It notes that inflation and currency exchange rates play a large role in the costs of doing businesses in various countries.

The graphic gives information about start-up costs, time to launch, and success rates in different countries. New Zealand and Singapore are ranked numbers 1 and 2 in terms of the easy of doing business.

What's better on a Friday afternoon than an infographic that dissects the so-called "Twitterverse"? A clickable version of that self same thing, that's what.

The Twitter ecosystem of third-party applications can be a wonderful and confusing thing, so the folks over at Twitter app bazaar OneForty have put together a clickable infographic that helps navigate nearly 150 of the more than 3,500 available apps.

A domain profiler document on GitHub is providing some interesting insights into the services that Y Combinator startups use to host its services.

The breakdown is according to Web host, Email host, DNS Host, Registrar, SSL Issuer and Certificate type.

The returns on investment for social technologies is often what stumps people.

But measuring the ROI of these technologies has to be done in order to get some understanding of how it is engaging people and correlating to the overall organization.

Socialcast is a social technology company that provides activity streams and social technologies. It created an infographic to show how human resources departments can understand the return by doing regression analysis on multiple data sets.

VisionMobile, a market analysis and strategy firm for the mobile industry, has just released an infographic detailing the key aspects of the mobile developer journey. The graphic is a part of its Developer Economics 2010, a 57-page global research report that details mobile application development across eight major mobile platforms including iOS, Android, Symbian, Java ME, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Flash/Flash Lite and the mobile Web (WAP/XHTML/CSS/JavaScript).

Friday pop quiz! Quick: If you started right now, how many thousands of years would it take you to watch all of the videos currently on YouTube? Name the country that posts the second highest number of videos. How many days worth of video are uploaded every second? What eight countries used to ban the site but have now succumbed to Lady Gaga, dancing babies and "Charley bit my finger"?

Think you know? Online Schools has the answers after the jump.

Infographics have become fairly ubiquitous, illustrating more and more news stories, presentations, advertisements. Their popularity is no surprise, perhaps, as we look for new ways to visualize and understand the vast amounts of data we're presented.

Infographics can make information more accessible, more enjoyable, and easier to understand. And when well-crafted, an infographic seems to lend itself to being incredibly viral, with potential to drive traffic and generate interest.

Today has been the Day of Location-Based Reporting at ReadWriteWeb, and what better way to help you end your tedious work week than by showing you this entirely speculative infographic that's recently been making the rounds in our back channels.

Now, since the Commander in Chief has admitted to not even being a Twitter user, we can also safely assume he's not big into Foursquare, either. But what if he were? What if he had the freedom to complain about bad restaurant service, gossip about his colleagues and get a hard-earned "Bender" badge just like the rest of us? Would the maps of his checkins look something like these, perhaps?