The downturn as an opportunity
Nigel Nicholson is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the LBS. This video is part of a collaboration between the London Business School, the Daily Telegraph and Google entitled the Survival of the Fastest.
Link Journalism
Publish2 is social bookmarking service for journalists and newsrooms. The app is based on a concept of Link Journalism, defined as a,
…linking to reporting or sources on the web to enhance, complement, or add more context to original reporting. Link journalism can also be a topical news aggregation, with links to interesting and important stories from any source on the web.
Publish2 plugs-in to existing sites using widgets and feeds allowing individuals to aggregate, mash-up, and publish content easily from one place.
Cloud computing for education
Amazon has launched a set of programs that enable the academic community to use their cloud computing service for teaching and research.
“With AWS you can requisition compute power, storage, database functionality, content delivery, and other services — gaining access to a suite of elastic IT infrastructure services as you demand them. AWS enables the academic community to inexpensively and rapidly build on global computing infrastructure to pursue course projects and accelerate their productivity and research results, while enjoying the same benefits of reliability, elasticity, and cost-effectiveness used by industry.”
Experimental Jetset
Dutch design firm Experimental Jetset created an identity and custom typeface based on a geometic interpretation of an architectural space in Arnham. They’ve posted an interesting article about the process of translating it across different media.
Google’s Android
It will be interesting to see how Google’s Android compares in popularity to the iPhone with developers over the next 18 months.
Photosynth
Photosynth is based on Seadragon technology; it creates multidimensional spaces by effectively ‘synthing’ together digital photos. Combined with Microsoft’s Virtual Earth it shows how social media can be used in a really exciting way.
The seemingly impossible is possible
Hans Rosling is a public health expert, director of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, and founder of Gapminder, a non-profit that does amazing things with global data.
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