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Last year I already blogged here about the sneaker vending machine. Two companies in England have taken the concept of the shoes vending machine and found a niche market targeting female clubgoers with after part-shoes. After you have danced the night away on your heals you can get a pair of portable flats before you’re heading home. Read more here.
Fast Company has made a list of the top ten creative people in architecture. Two Dutch architects made it in the top ten including two architects from the Asian continent respectively South-Korea and China. You can find the top 10 list here.
When it comes to airports, many travellers have a simple goal: Spend as little time there as possible. With the global recession causing airlines to cut back on services—and with travellers having less cash to spend at duty-free stores and other shops—the airport experience threatens to get even worse.
One part of the world where a trip to the airport isn’t so enervating, though, is Asia. In the annual survey of airport service quality by Geneva-based Airports Council International (ACI), Asian airports won four of the five top spots. Incheon International Airport in Seoul, South-Korea took the top for the fourth consecutive year. An overview of the complete ranking can be found here.
Has it ever been more vital for corporations to ditch the greed and embrace generosity? After all, giving is the new taking, and sharing is the new giving.
“GENERATION G | “Captures the growing importance of ‘generosity’ as a leading societal and business mindset. As consumers are disgusted with greed and its current dire consequences for the economy—and while that same upheaval has them longing more than ever for institutions that care—the need for more generosity beautifully coincides with the ongoing (and pre-recession) emergence of an online-fueled culture of individuals who share, give, engage, create and collaborate in large numbers.”
Three trend-drivers for GENERATION G are:
1. Recession and consumer disgust
2. Longing for institutions that care
3. For individuals. giving is already the new taking, and sharing is the new giving
A complete report on Generation G can be found here.
The Economist has developed a Board game to survive this year’s Christmas and allows you to relive the pain and misery of the bust. Please find instructions on needed downloads here.
This the season to make lists. In case of of a list: “the ten worst predictions for 2008“, offered by the website of Foreign Policy.
Among the other predictions on the list: “Bear Stearns is fine”; “Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton is a single Democratic primary”; “The possibility of $150-$200 per barrel seems increasingly likely over the next six-24 months.” You get the idea.
So, in the festive spirit, why not make some predictions about predictions: which predictions about 2009 will end up as candidates for the “ten worst predictions for 2009″.. 
“Let us remember that if the financial crisis has taught us anything, it’s that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers, in this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people.” Obama’s Victory Speech. November, 2008
As DealBook pointed out in its fall 2008 special section, this is a view that Mr. Obama has expressed again and again. From a campaign event in September: “We let the special interests put their thumbs on the economic scales. The result has been a distorted market that creates bubbles instead of steady, sustainable growth; a market that favors Wall Street over Main Street, but ends up hurting both.”
As Americans went to the polls on Tuesday, stocks in the United States posted their strongest Election Day rally in 24 years.
Source: NYTimes
Barack Hussein Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States on Tuesday November 4th 2008, sweeping away the last racial barrier in American politics with ease as the country chose him as its first black chief executive.
Hopefully Obama will reinvent America and ties better balanced international relations especially with Europe in order to seriously address global challenges such as climate change, countering poverty, further enhancing economic integration, etc.
You can find more on the 2008 USA Presidential elections here.
Perplexed by plummeting indexes? Worried about your bank’s future? Comment Central’s rounded up ten of the best blogs to guide you through the banking crisis:link.
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