May 2012
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The Scale of The Universe →
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6 Reasons Why the Facebook IPO Fell Flat →
This article by Todd Wasserman from Mashable explain very well why Facebook IPO sounds so colorless.
Well, that was anticlimactic.
After all the hullabaloo about Facebook’s IPO, this is how it ends, with a mere $0.23 jump in share price? That kind of movement is what happens after Procter & Gamble announces a more absorbent type of Pampers.
Yet it shouldn’t be all that surprising that...
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In 8 Years, Facebook Changed All We Do Online →
This is a great story by E.B. Boyd from Fast Company.
Is Facebook worth the $100 billion or so its pending IPO suggests it is? Who the good gracious knows. But one thing we can all be certain about is how the social network has radically changed people’s behavior and expectations online in the eight short years since it was a nary more than a twinkle in the eye of its baby-faced...
“Look at the car industry; it’s a tragedy in America. Who is designing the cars?”...”
– J. Crew CEO, And Apple Board Member Mickey Drexler Reveals Steve Jobs’ iCar Dream, Confirms “Living Room” Plans
(via fastcompany)
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Smart Guys
Source: inhabitat.com via Flavio on Pinterest
inhabitat.com →
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April 2012
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Five Essential Skills for the Facebook Era →
In a new book, Howard Rheingold says social networks are changing the way we think BY STEVEN CHERRY // FRI, APRIL 27, 2012
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A Social Entrepreneur Links Affordable Housing to... →
TIM FERNHOLZ GOOD Business editor
Shane Gring grew up playing with Legos and building tree forts; there was no question that he would study architecture when he arrived at college. But after he graduated in 2009, the collapse of the economy and the housing market left him without work. He signed up for a stint with Americorps, never imagining that what he saw as a career detour would spawn a...
Ten Ideas from #citytalk for Boosting Cycling in... →
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4 Ways To Keep Great Ideas From Getting Stuck In... →
By Gordon Hui, from Fast Company
It is a very useful article for entrepreneurs. I’ve summarized it.
What separates the great innovation organizations from the good ones? Simply put, it’s the ability to account for what I call the “pipeline paradox.”
Once a company decides on the ideas it wishes to pursue, it must invest more time, people, and strategic thinking to get them to market;...
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Spot Longboard Interbike Test Ride | Mountain Bike... →
Today is Friday. Nice day to think about bikes. It is an old post from Singletracks, a good source of inspiration. Have a nice ride.
Tim Berners-Lee: demand your data from Google and... →
Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the world wide web, has urged internet users to demand their personal data from online giants such as Google and Facebook to usher in a new era of highly personalised computer services “with tremendous potential to help humanity”.
Why Young Americans Are Driving So Much Less Than... →
By Richard Florida is Senior Editor at The Atlantic
“Unfortunately for car companies,” Jordan Weissmann noted at TheAtlantic.com a couple weeks back, “today’s teens and twenty-somethings don’t seem all that interested in buying a set of wheels. They’re not even particularly keen on driving.”
Now a major new report from Benjamin Davis and Tony Dutzik at the Frontier Group and...
Announcing the Festival of Transition →
The Festival of Transition is an initiative of new economics foundation, Transition Network, the Ramblers Association and others. The idea is that rather than flying to Rio, putting nearly 4 tons of carbon dioxide into an atmosphere that really doesn’t need 4 tons of CO2 put into it, we stay at home, and do stuff that models the kind of world we want to see. It is a celebration of change, of...
The Guardian: Battle for the internet - what's... →
guardian:
Over seven days The Guardian is taking stock of the new battlegrounds for the internet. From states stifling dissent to the new cyberwar front line, we look at the challenges facing the dream of an open internet
Day two: the militarisation of cyberspace Internet attacks on sovereign targets…
The Guardian: Web freedom faces greatest threat... →
guardian:
The principles of openness and universal access that underpinned the creation of the internet three decades ago are under greater threat than ever, according to Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
In an interview with the Guardian to launch our new Battle for the internet series, Brin…
TAKE ACTION. Avaaz.org
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WatchFor many who have heard of Medellín, Colombia, the name brings to mind the drug-related violence of the 1980s and 1990s, when it was often described as the most dangerous city in the world.
Medellín was awarded the 2012 Sustainable Transport Award. Streetfilms partnered with the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy to document some of the changes taking place in Medellín.
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Hot, crowded, and running out of fuel: Earth of... →
The message from the OECD is clear: the status quo is no longer acceptable. “Progress on an incremental, piecemeal, business-as-usual basis in the coming decades will not be enough,” it states, quite categorically. And that’s not coming from an environmental think tank, but an international body (albeit one with a Eurocentric outlook) with 34 members with the remit of...
Transparency is the New Leadership Imperative →
By Dorie Clark from Harvard Business Review
What kind of leaders do we need today? Steve Jobs — mysterious, charismatic, intriguing — is often cited as one of the recent greats, and there are clearly benefits to his style. A recent studyshowed that leaders like him — those perceived as having an almost magical aura — are seen as visionary, with employees and customers clamoring to touch the hem...
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Getting the Market to Tell the Truth
Adapted from World on the Edge by Lester R. Brown. Full book available online at www.earth-policy.org/books/wote. And published by http://www.treehugger.com
It is a very important vision by Lester Brown, specially for the developing countries like Brazil. Unfortunately what we can see in Brazil is a desperate race towards the old model of development.
This article brings light to the...
Crowdfunding Open Source Permaculture →
Interesting article by Shareable
Putting open source and permaculture together is a savvy combination, and in this case, it’s also really useful. Add crowdsourcing and you have a complete online resource for all things permaculture.
Facebook buys Instagram ... but for what? →
By Molly Wood
There’s a lot of speculation today about why Facebook would spend $1 billion to acquire the uber-hip photo sharing app Instagram. To some, it seems obvious; to others, it’s the biggest sign yet of a growing Web bubble. To me, it just raises question after question, and the biggest one is, “why”? What does Facebook gain from buying Instagram? Let’s look...
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Dilma Who? →
Really nice English way to see USA-Brazil relationship by The Economist.
BRAZIL has probably never mattered more to America than it does now. America has probably never mattered less to Brazil. Not that relations are bad between the two countries—far from it; they are increasingly cordial and productive. But America has finally, belatedly, woken up to the fact there is a vast, stable country to...
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Brazil's Rousseff seeks US help with skills... →
Science education and training are high on the agenda for Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s first official visit to the US, as her government seeks to tackle a growing problem: the lack of skilled workers in Brazil.
By Pablo Uchoa
BBC Brasil, Washington
… Under the programme, Science Without Border, which runs until 2015, students will study engineering, biotechnology, ocean...
Syria: Climate Change, Drought and Social Unrest →
underpaidgenius:
At least some people are looking at the geopolitical implications of long-term drought in the Middle East and north Africa, instead of rah-rah boosterism about democratic impulses and the shiny power of social media.
Francesco Femia and Caitlin Werrell via The Center for Climate & Security
Out of the blue?
International pundits characterized the Syrian uprising as an...
It's Not What You Sell, It's What You Believe -... →
This funky blue “Court of Water” wall plays music... →
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The bottled water industry is waging a PR battle...
Bottled water is the totemic bête noire of the environmental world, a multibillion-dollar industry that takes what in the west is clean and readily available from the tap, packages it up in non-biodegradable plastic and sells it back to consumers at hugely inflated prices. And yet sales continue to rise. In 2010, more than 2bn litres were consumed in the UK – 33 litres per person, a figure...
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Bicycle Phone Charger →
In Tanzania, the majority of people live without electricity, yet a third of the country uses mobile phones. Bernard Kiwia, a trained electrician and vocational-school instructor, collaborated with the for-profit social enterprise Global Cycle Solutions (GCS) to design a phone charger from scrap bike and radio parts. Made from spokes, brake tubes, clamps, motors, and capacitors, the device...
tumblrbot asked: WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL BETTER WHEN YOU ARE IN A BAD MOOD?
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Climate change is already harshing the weather
(…) “Anyway, getting back to weather: What the public needs to know is that volatility like we’ve seen recently is on the rise because of climate change. Even if we stopped emitting greenhouse gases tomorrow, global average temperature would continue rising for a good half-century just in response to past GHG emissions. Rising temperature will drive more and more extreme weather. This...
March 2012
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By Seth Godin: too long
“Too long”
You’re going to hear that more and more often.
The movie, the book, the meeting, the memo… few people will tell you that they ran short.
(Shorter, though, doesn’t mean less responsibility, less insight or less power. It means less fluff and less hiding.)
I agree, Seth: straight to the point.