Hyundai recently put their own spin on the projection advertising that's been trending with car companies lately. Suspending a Hyundai Accent in mid-air, they create a virtual vertical racetrack that's sure to blow your mind. It's pretty interesting to watch.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Friday, April 1, 2011
Urban centers draw more young, educated adults
With the release of the 2010 census data over the past few weeks some stunning statistics have come about.
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Even in Detroit, where the population shrank by 25% since 2000, downtown added 2,000 young and educated residents during that time, up 59% , according to analysis of Census data by Impresa Inc., an economic consulting firm."n more than two-thirds of the nation's 51 largest cities, the young, college-educated population in the past decade grew twice as fast within 3 miles of the urban center as in the rest of the metropolitan area — up an average 26% compared with 13% in other parts.
Cities need to realize this and start planning for the young professionals. Create, Live, Stay!
Wealth gap widened in recession
Even during a recession the wealthy are still getting wealthier. A recent report shows that the top 20% of all Americans actually controlled 87% of the wealth in the US. Leaving the other 80% of the population to fight and struggle over only 13%.
"The poor get poorer because they do the things to make them poorer, just as the rich do things that make them richer. Not fools, just misguided! It is a road to nowhere. An exercise in futility. The U.S. is a pool of OPPORTUNITY, so why complain of thirst when you just refuse to go get some water? What's worse, why complain about those who do quench their thirst? I just don't get it! You're the only one resorting to name calling due to lack of understanding of the problem and the solution! You know, I'll bet you have, or had a million dollar idea, but for whatever reason, you did not go for it. Think of how many more people would be employed right now if you'd followed your hunch."
Is there something that you wanted to start and didn't or did you have an idea that you never cashed in on?
Thursday, March 17, 2011
In Other News...
So the mainstream media has flooded (no pun intended) their channels with images, news and video of the devastating 8.9 earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan last week. Now while I agree that it is important to get news out to the world there is plenty of it going on that they are not reporting on or it is in the ticker at the bottom of your TV's that no one really pays any attention to... who really likes scrollable banner marquees anyways.
Here are a few articles that you might have missed.- House To Vote On Cutting Off NPR Funding
- Capital Airline Flight Attendants Dance Safety Demonstration To Lady Gaga (VIDEO)
- FDIC's Tab For Failed U.S. Banks Nears $9 Billion
- U.S. hints at Libya airstrikes as Gadhafi pounds rebels
- Tech Wrap from SXSW
- http://www.japanquakemap.com/ Japan has had 538 earthquakes over the last week. 308 of those were above a magnitude 5 and 38 were above a 6. This nice little time lapse map will show you where the quakes have been pin pointed and their reach. Talk about some tremors and aftershocks!
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Android Takes Over U.S. Smartphone Market
The Android OS now accounts for 29% of smartphones in the US; compared to its competitors Apple and RIM each holding at 27% as reported in a recent study by Nielsen's. This does not really come at any shock to anyone given the Motorola Droid's unit sales of 100,000 during its launch day, followed by another 250,000 in the first week following. That launch successfully brought Google and its Android OS into the consumer forefront.
As the OS wars heated up Android was able to launch Froyo (Frozen Yogurt) which brought Android to an acceptable level to compete with the iPhone. With multiple devices running Android, consumers finally started to purchase them and not think that they were getting something that was of lesser quality than its competitors (iPhone, Blackberry).
What kind of smartphone do you have?
Behind the Information Overload Hype
In 2007 the average person was sending out massive amounts of data, but not as much as they were consuming, the average person would send out the equivalent of 6 newspapers per day, while receiving an astonishing 174 newspapers of information. These numbers have been ever increase since about 1986 at the rate of 23% per year.
The amount of data consumed equates to 33.8 gigabytes everyday, 44% to TV, DVDs, movies and online videos and a whopping 55% to gaming alone. We consume on average 101,000 words per day, 45% to TV, DVDs, movies and online videos, 27% internet text, computer programs and 12% on radio and recorded music. Now you have got to be wondering how many hours does it take to handle all of this information and data, they came up with that number as well. You spend 118 hours per day consuming all of this information.
These numbers are all based on the average of all users. The heavy internet user, online videos, streaming music and photos are shifting the numbers.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
The Geospatial Revolution Project
Doing some research and found Geospatial Revolution Project a little while ago (see, for example, posts from Boing Boing and Google Maps Mania). Described as an integrated multimedia educational initiative exploring the use and impact of digital mapping, the Project is scheduled to produce a series of web videos that would form, once finished, a 60-minute documentary. A five-minute trailer gave some idea of what was to come.
The Project’s first episode (of four) went live. In less than 14 minutes it introduces the subject, sets out the origins of geospatial technology, and explores its use in disaster relief for the Haitian earthquake. Something that I am proud to say that I was able to help with.
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I am looking forward to what will come in the remaining segments. The next episode is scheduled for release on November 2; episode three will come out on February 1, 2011, with the final episode following on March 15.
Via All Points Blog and many other sources.
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