PUBLIC MARKS with tag societe

Another interesting mobile service is the Navi Call Taxi Service. Calling a cab to specific number, and it knows where you are :) As to make the taxi experience more safe for young women, the service sends a text message to the parents and/or friends with the name and number of the taxi and its location.

The idea is that every other Monday the whole office works on a design challenge that’s a little outside of our regular day to day work (social innovation for the web).

3. L'OLED offre un angle de vision de 180° Contrairement aux écrans LCD des premières générations, les images affichées sur un écran OLED sont visibles quelle que soit la position du spectateur par rapport à l'écran. Un avantage certain pour un produit nomade.

Your workplace is about to undergo a large-scale transformation … millions of baby boomer workers are set to reach retirement age in the next few years, and the next wave of Gen Y knowledge workers are stepping in to replace them. It’s not that the systems, processes and business models are being changed on a whim – they are being changed because the people who DO the work are changing. Like any living organism, the organisation is also transforming …

The Atlas of the Real World The Atlas of the Real World uses software to depict the nations of the world, not by their physical size, but by their demographic importance on a range of subjects. Here, we select a series of travel- and news-related maps.

Over the weekend, I mapped the spread of Walmart using Modest Maps.

In short, we will see a proliferation of hollow states.

Le Collectif des déboulonneurs lance une action d’envergure nationale contre le système publicitaire. Ils souhaitent l'ouverture d'un débat national sur la place de la publicité dans l'espace public et la réforme de la loi de 1979 encadrant l'affichage publicitaire.

As part of a continuing resolution, lawmakers set aside $487.7 billion for the Defense Department, ensuring a smooth transition for the Pentagon's big defense contracts ahead of the next administration.

Quite amusingly, while the students dressed up in order to show off their seriousness, all of the recruiters were dressed casually in t-shirts or polo shirts and jeans in order to show how relaxed they were. Funny sight.

As always, please take extra care to respect people’s senstitivies when it comes to location data and, above all, don’t be creepy.

Let's say you are on vacation in Paris and you want your friends to be able to see and interact with all the beautiful sights of the City of Lights. A regular postcard is good, but you know you can do better. So open up Google Earth, search for 'Eiffel Tower', find your favorite view of the monument and voilà, you're ready to send a virtual postcard. You decide the best view of the Eiffel Tower is this one:

Corporate cartographers are demolishing thousands of years of history

t concludes that it is not possible to draw up a typical profile of the "British terrorist" as most are "demographically unremarkable" and simply reflect the communities in which they live. The "restricted" MI5 report takes apart many of the common stereotypes about those involved in British terrorism. They are mostly British nationals, not illegal immigrants and, far from being Islamist fundamentalists, most are religious novices. Nor, the analysis says, are they "mad and bad".

After it was revealed that most of the ivory seized in Singapore came from elephants in Zambia, that country's director of wildlife was replaced and its courts began to impose harsher sentences for ivory smugglers.

The spark that set off the uprising occurred on February 27, 1947, when a police agent attempted to confiscate black market cigarettes from an elderly Taiwanese woman, Lin Jian-Mai. She resisted and, as accounts allege, was then pistol-whipped by the agents. An angry crowd soon gathered around the agents and the woman. After a warning shot fired by one of the agents went astray and killed an onlooker, the crowd pursued the agents to a nearby police station. The crowd surrounded the building, and demanded that the officer be given to them. The captain refused and the anger of the crowd heightened when it was discovered that the agents had been spirited out of the building via a rear entrance. Violence finally flared the following morning on February 28.

Here Comes Everybody A book about organizing without organizations.

Every company on these lists is investing in growing their online operations, but none are yet monetizing their digital products at a scale that would begin to offset their losses.

Teachers in one part of the US state of Texas are to be allowed to carry concealed firearms when the new school term opens this month.

In Beijing, the authorities have worked hard to prevent Olympic crowds from being too one-sided in their support for the home team. Volunteer spectators have even been drafted in at some half-full Olympic venues to cheer for both sides.

Zara also has a policy of zero advertising; the company preferred to invest a percentage of revenues in opening new stores instead.

These are self-constitutive acts; the state constitutes itself as an agent of modernity vested with the power and authority to control space, dictate the meaning of urbanity, shape the evolution of the public sphere, and suppress contending ideologies.

I am a product of situations, circumstances, fortunes and seeming-serendipity with causes that can be traced back to long before I was born