The City of Copenhagen, one of the world leading cycling cities, aims at establishing a new bike share system and has therefore initiated an open international design competition. The winning entry, called OPENbike, puts the user in the centre and proposes a system that is easy to use, flexible and fully scalable. The design goal has been to create a system that seamlessly integrates with public transport and becomes a natural part of Copenhagen’s existing bicycle culture. The system proposes a smart card system and positioning solutions integrated in each bicycle to create a fully floating bike share system. OPENbike does therefore not need special stands and bicycles can easily be repositioned and adapted to the cities changing needs.
via David Report blog » A new bike share system for Copenhagen
Las comunidades no se pueden crear, sino que se crean por sí solas, es algo orgánico.
- Chris Pirillo / fundador de Lockergnome en Le Web 2009
When cultural anthropology, psychology and photographic ingenuity converge, it’s a fascinating thing. And that’s exactly what South Korean visual artist JeongMee Yoon has been doing since 2005 in her thesis work, The Pink and Blue Projects.
Inspired by her own daughter’s obsession with the color pink, Yoon’s project explores the color preferences of children and their parents across different cultures and ethnic groups, probing into gender identity as a socialized construct.
From May 1980 to May 1990, nuclear scientist Hussain Al-Shahristani — Iraq’s current oil minister — was thrown in solitary confinement and subjected to torture. Last month, in a revelational and deeply personal interview, Al-Shahristani spoke to The BBC about the experience.
Inspired by the moving story, Swiss filmmaker and animator Mato Atomcreated a brilliant new campaign for BBC World Service, capturing in abstract form and minimal narration the devastating reality of solitary confinement.
Google Earth: it’s good more than just spying on the neighbors. Google announced today at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen that it has combined Google Earth’s satellite imagery and high-speed cloud-based computation to create an online turbocharged satellite imagery-processing engine that detects deforestation in specific areas within seconds.
via Google Earth Uses the Cloud to Fight Deforestation | Sustainability | Fast Company
If Facebook is taking over your life, a new website is offering you a way out.
The site, Seppukoo.com, offers ritual suicide for Facebook users’ virtual profiles by deactivating your account. And it doesn’t stop there. If you’re willing to end it all, the site will feature a RIP memorial page on its site and sends the page to all your Facebook friends.
“You are more than your virtual identity,” the site says. “Pass away and leave your ID behind.”
The site is named after the ancient Japanese samurai act of “seppuku.”
The samurai preferred to die with honor. So, rather than fall into the hands of their enemies, samurai would voluntarily kill themselves by plunging a sword into their stomach. “As the seppuku restores the samurai’s honour as a warrior, Seppukoo.com deals with the liberation of the digital body,” the site says.
via End your social networking life with Seppukoo | Technology | Los Angeles Times
The default settings that Facebook recommends goes something like: “transmit all your status updates and uploads to everyone on the Net, not just your friends.” Since Facebook estimates that only 15% to 20% of users take the time to adjust the privacy settings to suit their needs, this is most definitely going to lead to people sharing too much information, or accidentally leaking out stuff they thought was semi-private (which is great for reporters, but maybe not so good for everyone else).
via Facebook Privacy Update: Don’t Use the Default Settings | Technomix | Fast Company
Burtcorp.com, a software development company that sprang from Crispin Porter + Bogusky Europe, has released its digital media analytics product, Rich. Rich is aimed squarely at agency creatives and is designed as a streamlined, accessible - and free- tool for measuring the success of online campaigns.
MagCloud lets anyone with content upload a PDF and order a proof of the resulting paper magazine. After reviewing and finalizing the proof, they set a price and make the magazine available for orders via the MagCloud site. Single issues are then printed on demand and mailed out to individual readers. Now, with the service’s new Ship to Group feature, publishers can mail their magazines to multiple recipients with a simple click.
via Magazine publishing service now offers group shipping - Springwise
