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March2011
A Facebook Only Girlfriend
Calling lonely men with heavily online lives. Cloud Girlfriend is here for you.Cloud Girlfriend seems soon to launch, their current launch page opens with a pair of walking heels, perhaps poised to walk into your life or walk all over you.
An online ‘service’ specifically geared for creating the illusion of an online girlfriend, Cloud Girlfriend outlines to it’s potential customers:
Step 1: Define your perfect girlfriend.
Step 2: We bring her into existence.
Step 3: Connect and interact with her publicly on your favorite social network.
Step 4: Enjoy a public long distance relationship with your perfect girl.
The idea of a virtual girlfriend carrying out a public relationship across the medium of one’s social networks seems sad yet novel. Could this step show the direction that we could be taking in regards to the seriousness of our online lives? What could there be next? Perhaps things will mirror the physical world and we could see verifications of education through black market e-degree vendors, or services offering photoshopped holidays for your perfect Facebook vacations – complete with tagged ‘friends’, perhaps another service for struggling actors to fill?Strange yet interesting online times.
Noteleaf Knows What’s Next
Or who’s next is perhaps more accurate.Noteleaf is an online app that syncs Google Calendar, Gmail, LinkedIn and your smartphone to ease you into your next appointment.
Now out for iPhone and Android, Noteleaf is also able to target the business-user heavy Blackberry crowd due to it’s nature as an online service as opposed to that of a downloadable app. Noteleaf pulls the names on your Google Calendar appointments and links it up with the data from your LinkedIn account to create a complete, easy to reference profile of your upcoming appointment. In a tidy SMS sent to you just prior to your meeting.
If you’re running from one appointment to the next and have a memory full to the brim Notepad is certainly an app to look to. You get the upcoming appointment’s job title, brief work history, education history, a link to their email, their phone number on hand, and some Google Maps directions to your appointment location to boot. The virtual secretary for the smartphone crowd.Currently available to US and Canadian numbers.
Copenhagen Tracks Tourists
Using the WIFI signals from it’s visitors phones, Copenhagen’s airport are able to track how long immigration might take – alerting everyone on the network, or how to improve their users experience.Tracking the tourists through their phone’s WIFI signals, Copenhagen Airport are quickly making maps of what arriving and departing passengers like to do on their stopovers or how quickly they get in and out of the airport.
Using this information, Copenhagen Airport are able to offer their travellers (or potential customers) special deals through push notifications based on where they are in the airport, or simply let them know how long it’s going to take to get through immigration.
Information that is currently channeled through Copenhagen Airport’s free smartphone app, it harnesses a wealth of digital information into a single interface. One that could help with the usual headaches of rushing through boarding gates hoping to catch your connecting flight.An initiative not by the airport itself but by SITA, an aviation communicatons and technology company, SITA hopes to take the research that’s happening in Copenhagen worldwide. To ease and assist the airport experience on a global scale.
With current downloads of Copenhagen Airports app at over 100,000 here’s to hoping that SITA will generate a ‘global airport app’ that can ease the process without the need for individual downloads.
Greenpeace Crowdfunds Their Next Warrior
A remarkable execution of a fast rising concept. Crowdfunding meets leading green campaigners Greenpeace.In efforts to build their next and newest, entirely environmentally sustainable ship, ‘Rainbow Warrior‘, Greenpeace are ‘selling’ every item of the boat before it’s even built. A visit to their ‘e-shop’ lands you every single part of the boat imaginable, be in a spoon, at 1 Euro, or a desalinater, at 7000 Euros.
Buyers get a certificate for their ‘purchase’ and the ship goes on piecing together. Names and messages are streamed live on the website, tied directly to the part of the ship they’ve contributed to, with a shining red dot on a diagram of the boat. And ‘buyers’ names will be etched onto a digital artwork aboard the vessel herself upon completion.
French agency DDB and web developers Les 84 have created a stunning online experience that not only outline the ‘products’ for purchase but takes you on a complete diagrammatic tour of the ship. You can see which room your spoon will sit in, or where exactly that desalinator goes. All to the soothing soundtrack of a ship at work in her ocean.A live webcam shows all progress and at 32% completed construction less than a month into the cause, here’s to seeing Rainbow Warrior launch at their projected date in October 2011.
School of One
School of One is a hybrid education pilot program set to push education into the post-industrial era.For too long our schools have been operating like that of a factory floor operation. Technology and the information age have shifted learning into another sphere yet education systems have had a hard time playing catchup.
There are some pioneering schools in operation, High Tech High in San Diego with their artificially intelligent assesment and learning system and state of the art robotics equipment, or Denver School of Science and Technology‘s wiki-based data-driven learning environments. But School of One hopes to act as more than a one-off, as an initiative taken by the New York City Education Board, School of One is a prototype.Partnering up with Cisco, the initiative blends a combination of teacher-led instruction, independent learning and work with virtual tutors in classes structured on an individual basis. Each students work is assesed in real-time by a computer system that tracks progress, establishes strengths and weaknesses, and structures classes based on collated data. A unique daily schedule no longer tied to a group of 30 students, individual learning on an implementable controllable scale.
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