Dear Photograph – This cool tumblr blog is simple but also inspiring and compelling. Dear Photograph’s idea is straightforward, judging by its call to action: “take a picture of a picture from the past in the present.” This doesn’t say much, so here’s a visual example:

Dear Photograph is an ongoing feed of such posts made up of pictures of old photos, held up in the air at the location of the original ones. The result is captivating photos capturing both past and present in one frame, thereby keeping that old memory alive and kicking in an artistic way.

Evian’s Let’s Baby Dance – If you haven’t seen it yet, the French mineral water company Evian has been leading a huge global campaign these past couple of years with babies as the brand’s leading stars (remember the roller-skating babies video that instantly went viral?). These past few weeks billboards and roadside posters in major cities worldwide have been decorated with images of pretty people wearing a T-shirt with a baby’s body so it looks like the model has a baby figure from the neck down . To make this campaign a true cross-platform project, the “Baby Inside” advertising concept has become viral online as well with Evian’s Let’s Baby Dance website.

Evian’s interactive and totally fun Let’s Baby Dance site invites you to take part in the global movement of working it baby style by using your computer camera. Before you begin, hit play on the homepage to see what previous users have done, and then click the “Take Part” button under the main image. You will be asked to pick your baby of choice and turn on your webcam. The ad’s signature track, a cool new version of Tom Tom Club’s Wordy Rappinghood by Uffie (remixed by DJ Mehdi), can be downloaded via iTunes Store.

Gerbils – Fan of the Lemmings game from the 1990s? Well, now you can tap into the ground digging game once again with Gerbils, a beautifully designed game of skills based on the same old-timer’s concept. Make sure all the little cute gerbils make it to the level’s exit, and each time you’ll have a new specialization available to make it through. When you reach a dead end and can’t reach the objective, click the nuke’em icon to start afresh… For more cool games visit our I♥GAMES page.

SoundTracking – Although currently available for iOS 4 devices only, this music app tries to offer an all-in-one bundle based on the music soundtrack of your daily life -the tunes that add a splash of color to your routine. SoundTracking comes with a built-in music ID feature, which is the standalone product of many music apps out there (such as Shazam and SoundHound). But SoundTracking doesn’t stop there. The app includes geo-tagging music snippets and sharing these with your friends along with a photo of the track’s artist or album.

Want more? SoundTracking lets you check in to Foursquare when you post a soundtrack with a location, and you in turn can follow friends’ location based on their tagged songs and check ins. SoundTracking is ideal for the iPhone users who love sharing in general, and sharing what they’re doing and what they’re listening to in particular. This app is free which is, considering all the perks it offers, surprising to say the least. In other words, go ahead and download this wicked app ASAP while it’s free.

Wanderfly – This comprehensive customized travel planner is “a personalized recommendation engine that helps you discover new and exciting experiences, based on your budget and interests.” Simply specify your departure city and travel destination, the amount you’d like to spend, desired time of year and the nature of your vacation (romantic, adventure, beach, etc.). Wanderfly will then build a travel plan based on your submitted parameters.

BranchOut – Although many are amazed Facebook hasn’t made a move to buy LinkedIn yet, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t leverage your network of friends on the world’s No. 1 social network right now to your own career’s advantage. BranchOut has put its foot in the Facebook-jobs door and offers easy job search using nothing more than your Facebook account.

Once you sign in via Facebook connect, grant the application access to your account and create your job seeker’s profile. BranchOut offers easy LinkedIn profile import which is a huge perk. Get relevant job offers, see your connections, learn what’s new in your professional network (instant updates), and even endorse your friends. BranchOut is a great idea that is well-designed and executed. Give it a try if you’re thinking about making a career change using more than just job listings and LinkedIn.

OpenStudy – I wish I had this community available to me back when I was a student. OpenStudy is a well-intentioned network of students seeking live online help from other students. Alternatively, OpenStudy is also a place where experienced students can offer their knowledge to novice peers struggling with a certain study topic.

As you can see from the screenshot above, you can find help in math, finance, physics, biology, writing & English, comp. sci and history. If you’re looking for help, simply select the topic in question and type in your question in the twitter feed-like list on the left. Someone from the OpenStudy community will reply soon. If you know the answer to someone else’s inquiry, go ahead and submit your explanation. See the example below for OpenStudy’s Math page.

OpenStudy is a terrific study tool that involves the online community in a positive and fruitful way. I relish in witnessing Education take a digital and innovative turn by such collaborations online.

Well – As with most of the NYTimes.com blogs, this one about health & wellness is also a superb source of content. Well offers engaging posts on a number of relevant topics including food, pets, exercise and personal achievement, the science of fitness, and “Patient Voices.” Well has a commendable size of active, responsive readership that likes to comment on the blog’s interesting posts and further elaborate the discussion.

One particular post I found intriguing on Well is Tara Parker-Pope’s A Dual Portrait of American Fatherhood, discussing the radical changes in the paternal role of today’s America, compared to pops’ levels of engagement a few decades ago (just in time for Father’s Day). Well is a last week’s Weekly Blog winner and a personal favorite for both my mind and soul. Enjoy.

Designers.MX – The concept of this divine site is simple: it’s where creative designers share the music that keeps them going. Designers.MX is not just about superb playlists, it’s also about large doses of creative inspirations and revelations.

Although all entries on Designers.MX are inspiring, I suggest starting with the Popular section for guaranteed sweet music. Each playlist comes with a ‘built-in’ player so you can start listening instantly and enjoy the tunes that fuel industry professionals. I particularly enjoyed Kick the Day Off Right by Daniel Waldron. Click the screenshot below to get to Daniel’s playlist.

Newspaper Map – In today’s age of influx of people, communities and nationalities to and from every location, physical borders are now becoming more obsolete than ever before. The result, as NY Times columnist and best-selling author Thomas Friedman so eloquently explained, is that “The World is Flat.” Newspaper Map brings a whole new meaning to this very concept through the World Wide Web by offering an online reading room for every possible newspaper from virtually every possible country.

Using pinned locations on Google Maps, Newspaper Map offers a visual interactive interface by which you can search, browse and select newspapers from different locations worldwide in different languages. Each newspaper’s language can be translated (using Google Translate of course). This means you can virtually read any newspaper the world has to offer. Once you pick a pinned location, the site will offer a list of translation options so you can read the newspaper regardless of its language of origin. See an example below.

Friedman had it right. The world is flat alright, and we might as well benefit from its ever-increasing connectivity and flow of information. Newspaper Map is a great productive concept we should use to learn better what’s going on in different parts of the world, places and communities hidden to us until now.

Flvrd – This Photo-based social community is the spot where “flavors meet visuals.” As opposed to the photo sharing app Trover, the Weekly App we featured last week, Flvrd (pronounced “flavored”) is about sharing photos of online points of interest, not locations.

The basic idea behind Flvrd is to introduce users to interesting and entertaining videos, photos, posts and other online memes while inviting them to share their own online flavors with the rest of the Flvrd community. Here’s one Flvrd entry I wanted to share: Anti-Theft Lunch Bags by Andy91 via Tumblr. It’s genius!

Mad: The Idiotical – This spanking new blog by Mad Magazine (DC Comics) isn’t playing the usual marketing game as blogs of other major companies do. The Idiotical is here to make you laugh using dark humor, powerful statements and lots of funny illustrations. If you’re a Mad Magazine fan, RSS to this one. To give you a sample, here’s a hilarious post I came across while browsing The Idiotical, titled “Why Hugh Hefner and Crystal Harris Called Off Their Wedding.” Click the image below to read it in full.