Google’s latest venture is quite the marvel. Project Re: Brief is an innovative – and actually pretty romantic – attempt to give a rebirth to some of the most iconic advertising campaigns that shaped brands for a generation.

Are you a fan of TechCrunch? So was Pando Daily Founder, Sarah Lacey. And she was one of the many partners, contributors and fans that mourned the day their tech news source of choice “sold out” when the money and bright lights of AOL came a-flashing. It was this event that inspired her to build a new daily tech news site focusing on the never-ending stream of startups pouring out of Silicon Valley…

Taking visual resumes to the next level:

We’ve seen a number of companies recently trying their hand in the brave, new world of social job hunting. Visual resumes are the in thing, as you will have noticed with previous weekly faves, Re.Vu and Kareer.me, turning standard data into attractive and appealing visualizations of your professional self. ResumUP takes this concept one step further, by creating a visual profile for both candidates AND employers…

DooID: Your very own personal showcase

DooID – How do you show yourself off on the internet? Your Facebook page? But there’s too many drunken photos of you on there to truly showcase yourself, especially professionally… Your Twitter? Maybe, but it’s very at-the-moment, and what you remarked on three days ago will probably already be forgotten tomorrow… How about a personal website? But it’s too expensive and time consuming you say… Well, actually it’s neither time consuming nor expensive to build a multi-platform personal website if you use dooID!

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Chain your life together!

How many hours do you sleep each night? How many fruit and veg do you consume each day? How many cigarettes do you smoke a day? If you want to improve your stats on these or countless other possible goals, and like the rest of us, don’t feel like you have a particularly easy way of doing it… you may want to start ‘chaining’ your life together!

Find hungry, young talent for your NPO

Have you ever believed in a good cause but didn’t know where to start? Got a great project in mind but need support to get it going? Are you trying to turn your good actions into a professional career? Maybe you’re an organization leader and need to recruit new members? If you answered yes to any of the above, check out this week’s Fave NPO, Idealist.org!

Dinner’s never been more sociable than this…

Here at All My Faves we enjoy the simple pleasures in life: We love our friends, and we love our food. We also love making new friends. And our latest discovery Grub With Us shares our sentiments… It’s a food loving socialite’s delight: You create or join a group meal at your favorite restaurant, and network with potential new friends or business contacts!

Apple’s first brochure proclaimed “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”. I am quite sure that if Steve Jobs was still alive he would have downloaded Clear to his personal iPhone. Clear is a time management App, designed to help you manage your life without adding clutter.

30 Second MBA, from Fast Company – Ever wondered how they do it, the Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerbergs of this world? How did they create and continue to grow some of the globe’s biggest businesses?

The job market’s tougher than ever; and more than ever, we need something to help us stand out. Kareer.me offers a compelling alternative to the traditional resume, which offers only words on a page to catch a recruiter’s attention. It also offers a compelling alternative to visual resumes that we’ve featured recently like Re.Vu, which offers an all-singing, all-dancing visual CV to throw into the big wide world of job hunting. And here’s why:

The traditional resume. One (or two) pieces of paper, a few buzz words, your education, work experience yada yada yada. Is it just me, or is this just boring in our internet age!?

Just as All My Faves aims to redefine how you discover the internet with a visual guide to the best of the web; Re.Vu aims to revolutionize the way we can help employers and clients discover us, with a beautiful visual guide, stuffed full with pictures, infographics and timelines. This is way more than just a CV. It’s a Re.Vu. And it’s free!

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