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The Vancouver Olympics begin this Friday and will welcome some 2,500 athletes.
It’s true, they won’t be quite the design extravaganza that London 2012 will be–but there’s still going to be hundreds of millions of dollars in design on display, everywhere from the uniforms to the buildings to the branding. Fast Company provides a slideshow that gives an impression at the design elements you can expect to see flitting across your screen, in between shots of athletes.
Popular photo-sharing social network Flickr was launched back in February 2004 by a Vancouver-based company Ludicorp. It took one year for Yahoo to acquire Flickr, and among the company’s many acquisitions, Flickr definitely stands as one of the most successful.
Being six years old (nearly the same age as Facebook) makes Flickr almost an old guy on the Internet, as many other social networks (Bebo, hi5) have risen and fallen within that timespan. Although its traffic lately isn’t growing as it used to, it’s still doing well, with users sharing billions of photos there. We wish you a very happy birthday, Flickr!
From the rise of China to the rise of the U.S. federal debt, 2008 was a year of momentous money stories that will echo well into the future.
It was a year of historic change in business, economics, and finance. General Motors and Chrysler made whirlwind trips through the bankruptcy process, and the U.S. Senate narrowly voted in favor of health care reform in a dramatic vote on Christmas Eve morning, bringing President Obama just this close to achieving a top campaign priority.
In other times, any one of these sagas might have been an obvious and easy selection as the business story of the year. Yet 2009 was so full of drama that health care reform will have to settle for a position on the short list, and Chrysler might not have made the list at all if it hadn’t been paired with GM.
So here’s Portfolio.com’s take of the most important business, economics, and finance stories of the year, selected with an eye toward which ones had the biggest hand in shaping the world for now and for the foreseeable future.
DesignBoom listed some remarkable tube station designs from across the world.
It has collected nine outstanding examples. For example: Shanghai’s Bund Sightseeing tunnel, a 2,100-foot stretch of tunnel that connects The Bund–the city’s famous waterfront–with Pudong, it’s high-tech business district, which has sprung up from swampland in a mere 15 years.
Other master design works are the stations in Stockholm’s subway system, designed by Per Olof Ultvedt in 1975. There are literally hundreds of art installations, strewn throughout the city’ 100 stations. As DesignBoom points out, many take advantage of the natural rock faces found through the tunnels, which give the entire thing a primordial feel unparalleled in the world
According to trendwatching.com this are the ten key trends to watch in 2010: Business as unusual, Urbany, Real-time reviews, (f)luxury, mass mingling, eco-easy, tracking & alerting, Embedded Generosity, Profile Myning, and Maturalism.
Are online jobs the next big thing? For Maria Summers it sure is. Maria, a mother from is thriving, in the middle of an economic recession working in the comfort of her own home.
From her website: “I get paid about $25 for every link I post on Google and I get paid every week… I make around $5500 a month right now” [Source].
In Mercer Consulting’s annual Quality of Living Survey, Europe once again dominates the list of 215 countries around the world. The top three cities are, by rank, Vienna, Zurich (last years winner), and Geneva. Like last year Amsterdam ranks as number thirteen on the list.
The U.S. fares poorly, barely making it into the top 30 with Honolulu and San Francisco in the bottom two places. The top city in Asia is Singapore, at no. 26. No cities from Africa or South America are in the top 30. The bottom? Baghdad once again comes in at 215. A complete overview can be found here.
Whether you like it or not its interesting for sure. John Lennon used music. Martin Luther King, Jr. used moving oratory. German artist Jan Vormann, uses Lego blocks. As part of his Dispatchwork project to restore distressed architecture, Vormann imaginatively utilizes colorful Lego blocks to fill in cracks and fissures. Read more here.
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