Hmmmm…. Aerotropolis
Here’s the upcoming book about how cities will be centered on their connectivity in the form of airports. I don’t buy it.
Soon the airport will be at the center and the city will be built around it, the better to keep workers, suppliers, executives, and goods in touch with the global market.
Unless they solve the dual threats facing the air transport industry: extremely long feedback loops and the highly leveraged nature of the business (both in finance and an ultra-reliance on the oil industry), this premise is a nonstarter.
Review: CarlSays is Really Cool
creating local deals using checkins. This reflects the correct approach to this kind of product: Build atop existing activity. The next step to this is to capture conversations in addition to checkins. Essentially, a variant of this.
Attacking Globalization Itself
UPS is just-in-time globalization. What’s most interesting about the mail bombs going out on it’s networks (cell phones strapped to explosives, designed to go off when the alarm went off), is that the attackers did not know where that would occur. If the aircraft would be in the air or even what country.
In short, they just attempted a cluster of cheap, small attacks on globalization itself.
Good news? They used Yemen of all places, giving counter terrorists everywhere the false impression we ‘prevented’ them from using other, less conspicuous places.
Bad news? They’re on track to figuring it out.
Voter Fraud Mobile Application
it is. Interesting because it is essentially Ushahidi’s approach, with a partisan slant.
Momentum index of 531 and growing.