Jamie Court: Our Revolution
The largely peaceful revolution in Cairo and Americans’ celebration of it raises the question: What would it take to mount a peaceful revolution in America…
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Map Your Housing Search With HotPads
The DC-based startup launched a new feature Monday, which helps you quickly visualize the priciest and cheapest listings in an area. HotPads.com , a real estate search site, on Monday announced a new feature called HotSpots, a tool that visualizes housing options by relative price. The tool is dynamic, meaning that when you zoom a map in or out, it recalibrates what prices equal “hot” (expensive …
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No Ghost in the Machine: The Case for a Social Renaissance, Part 2
(This essay is Part 2: here is Part 1 , which appeared on Fast Company last week.) Summary We’re haunted by our definition of brands, and so is our use of social technology tools…it’s as if there’s a ghost that we are committed to creating and then repeatedly hunting. Our machines are but shiny new ways to experience this mental, ethereal entity of our creation and, even if we can sometimes …
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