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February 10, 2010
How to Do Everything in Google Buzz (Including Turn It Off)
Google's new social media service Google Buzz will show up in your Gmail account this week. Here's how to customize and use Buzz--or opt out of its inbox-cluttering updates completely.
Add Your Sites to Buzz
Once Buzz becomes available in your Gmail account, click on the Buzz link below the Inbox on Gmail's sidebar to check it out. You'll see a "Welcome to Buzz" message with a list of all the people Buzz has you automatically following (based on who you email the most).
Above the Buzz...
Winter Olympics Sponsor Smackdown: Red Bull vs. Coke
The Winter Olympics start later this week, which means fans will soon be subjected to ads from the usual suspects, e.g. McDonald's, Visa, Coca-Cola. But Red Bull, which usually steers clear of mainstream sports in favor of alternative events like the X Games, seems to be the winner when it comes to athlete sponsorships. Red Bull is the primary sponsor for both Shaun White and Lindsey Vonn, two of the top three athletes on Forbes' top-earning Winter Olympians list. Coke's athletes, including...
If You Ran the World, What Would You Do?
If you ran the world, what would you do (in 140 characters or less)? That's the question asked by IfWeRanTheWorld, a site launched in beta this week at the TED conference that aims to harness human intentions into action.
From the site:
Start by answering the question, 'If you ran the world, what would you do?' with a tangible, achievable goal: this will be your actionplatform. Then you'll be asked to break it down into the microactions that need doing in order to complete your...Flickr Founder Stewart Butterfield's New Game Is a Game-Changer [Q&A]
Glitch, the new flash-based, massively multiplayer game from the mind of Flickr founder Stewart Butterfield, has already been called "a neverending feast of imagination" and "an intersection of World of Warcraft and Facebook." And it hasn't even started alpha-testing yet. To get the inside scoop, we spoke with Butterfield about its premise ("it harkens back to aboriginal Australian creation myths"), its possibilities ("when we make our APIs public, we expect to have our minds blown"), and...
Making a Sustainability Perspective Second Nature in Education
This blog is part of our Inspired Ethonomics series. It's co-authored by Second Nature President Anthony Cortese and Senior Fellow Georges Dyer.
In Part 1 of this series, we noted that our dominant economic system is not only failing to deliver, it is destroying the life-support system of the only planet we've got. With population on track to grow to 9 billion by 2050 and huge increases in consumption and demand from the developing world, a dramatic rethinking is overdue. Higher education...
"Touching the Void": Radical Reinventions of Guggenheim New York
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Guggenheim New York, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. It's a legendary building, and the cavernous central atrium is one of the most famous spaces in modern architecture. It's also a bit of a blank canvas, only rarely filled out with art or installations. For Touching the Void, a new exhibit opening this Friday, the Guggenheim asked over 200 artists and architects to propose "dream interventions." Here's a sneak peak.
Report: $499 iPad Costs Apple $230 to Make, Bring on the Discounts!
iSuppli has again done its trick of totaling a device's component costs to show the kind of profits the maker can get. This time, it's the fabled iPad...and iSuppli's data implies there's room for Apple to maneuver on sales price.
iSuppli reckons that the most expensive part of the device will be its screen, which tallies with the unusual IPS display tech, and the emphasis Apple itself put on the screen quality. Here's what it and other key components likely cost Apple:
The screen: $80 per...Flickr Founder Opens Up About Game-Changing New Game [Q&A]
Glitch, the new flash-based, massively multiplayer game from the mind of Flickr founder Stewart Butterfield, has already been called "a neverending feast of imagination" and "an intersection of World of Warcraft and Facebook." And it hasn't even started alpha-testing yet. To get the inside scoop, we spoke with Butterfield about its premise ("it harkens back to aboriginal Australian creation myths"), its possibilities ("when we make our APIs public, we expect to have our minds blown"), and...
Big Record Labels Bailing on Spotify for U.S. Launch?
Spotify CEO and co-founder Daniel Ek hit the New Music Seminar in L.A. last week and all but boasted that his streaming music service which carries 7 million users in Europe will launch stateside as early as March.
But in recent days, music industry execs have sounded anything but on-board. Edgar Bronfman, the CEO of publishing behemoth Warner Music Group, told analysts in an Earnings Call yesterday that cloud music services like Spotify aren't the answer for WMG:
"Free streaming services...
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