February 2012
20 posts
Your Life as Data: The Rise of Personal Annual... →
Not everyone who tallies his daily minutiae does it for the same reason, but most cite the same inspiration. Designer Nicholas Felton seems to have started the trend with his first personal annual report in 2005. By 2010, The New York Times had caught wind of the project. By 2011, Facebook was impressed, too. The company hired Felton to help design its new Timeline feature.
In the meantime,...
The State of the Twitterverse 2012 →
(From Brian Solis, image created by Infographic Labs)
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What makes a city 'livable'?
Long-term resident of Sana’a, Sabrina Faber, has developed a rainwater aggregation system which catches water from the city’s flat-roofed buildings, siphoning it off to water storage tanks on ground level. Tanks store between 10,000 and 50,000 litres of water, which can be filtered for drinking or used in the garden and home. Sabrina’s idea won the Philips Livable Cities Award 2010/2011.
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Retailers Shut Facebook Storefonts Amid Apathy
Facebook, which this month filed for an initial public offering, has sought to be a top shopping destination for its 845 million members. The stores’ quick failure shows that the Menlo Park, California-based social network doesn’t drive commerce and casts doubt on its value for retailers, said Sucharita Mulpuru, an analyst at Forrester Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
“There was a lot of...
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Random Acts of Kindness
It’s Random Acts of Kindness Week. Go do something nice!
“He loves the fact that he is who he is,” Roger Montgomery, Lin’s...”
– Oh the Linsanity (From The Huffington Post)
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This Is Generation Flux
What defines GenFlux is a mind-set that embraces instability, that tolerates—and even enjoys—recalibrating careers, business models, and assumptions. Not everyone will join Generation Flux, but to be successful, businesses and individuals will have to work at it. This is no simple task. The vast bulk of our institutions—educational, corporate, political—are not built...
Two Super Bowl Moments Land in Twitter's Record... →
Twitter reaction reached 12,233 tweets per second at the end of the Giants vs. Patriots game and 10,245 TPS during Madonna’s halftime performance Sunday night. Both numbers put the moments at numbers two and three on the list, just behind the online buzz sparked by Japanese anime movie Castle in the Sky in December (25,088 TPS).
Greatest Innovator
The data comes from a survey asking 1,010 Americans ages 16 – 25 to identify the greatest innovator of all time. The majority of surveyed young Americans – 52% – chose Edison (over Jobs) as the greatest innovator.
45 percent said that invention is not given enough attention in their school
28 percent said their education left them unprepared to enter the fields that lead to innovation, namely...
“Freelance writer Michael Shinzaki said that if he could get in on the IPO, he’d...”
– (From LA Times)
JC Penney Transformation