The Thinking Mechanism is a series of weekly posts, published on Fridays, covering the ideas The Mechanism is thinking and talking about with our peers and clients.

The week in quick links:

• Facebook's "awesome" announcement this week: Video Chat via Skype.

• One Week In, Google+ Users Are Growing Followers, Getting Traffic.

• Google Web Fonts v2 is now out.

• Barcodes Enter Expressionist Period.

• The New York Times lists all their journalists on Twitter.

• The Dieline Awards 2011 Winners - Honoring the best in package design.

• A brief history of hacking.

• MediBabble: The iPhone App That Could Save Your Life

• Slipscreen: A Love Story - a fantastic short film shot entirely on a phone.