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Video: The Power Of Community

24-10-2010

Co-working, documentary, Inspiration, Trends, Video

Just by a random internet wandering I stumbled upon La Citta Mobile. A project/collective based in Eindhoven which stimulate creative disciplines to meet and share ideas on how construct and deconstruct a temporary city. Hence the title la citta mobile, the mobile city. (The yearly exodus of Dutch designers to Milan for the Salone del Mobile is clearly leaving its traces)

La Citta Mobile is currently exhibiting on the Dutch Design Week 2010 (until 31th of October) — which I hope to visit. On their blog I found an interesting video, of which I’ve pasted a short trailer below. The full documentary can be found on powerofcommunity.org.

Video: It doesn’t have to be big…

By: Patrick

22-10-2010

Inspiration, Interesting, Trends, Video

Great video by Gary Vaynerchuk (from Wine Library TV). It is part of series of video’s related to a book by Seth Godin called Linchpin.

Video: China shaping the future?

By: Patrick

15-10-2010

Inspiration, technology, Trends, Video

Interesting talks on the World Economic Forum by Chinese thought leaders.

/via shiftalliance.com

Virtual assistants: solving what problem?

By: Patrick

14-10-2010

Design, Interesting, technology, Trends, Video

Today I came across a short demo-video of something called virtual assistants. While the term often refers to (human) assistants supporting other people by virtual means. This type of virtual assistant is completely virtual. In short it is a short of interactive FAQ armed with a plethora algorithms (machine learning, language processing) to be able to respond with a correct answer or an appropriate action.

As a designer however I wonder if this type of tool is solving the right problem. If somebody for example is unable to find a certain product on your website, isn’t this because you haven’t designed your website well enough?

Video: Skidelsky on the economic crisis

By: Patrick

10-10-2010

Trends, Video

If you are interested in economy and the current crisis I can recommend reading articles by Lord Skidelsky. I’ve found two video’s in which he briefly explains his vision on the current crisis and the required actions.

Personally I find the current economical situation highly fascinating. Not only because it has such a huge influence on society. Basically the top of the financial world holds the rest of the world in deadlock. But it seems primary economical models are rapidly deterioration (capitalism/free market), and economical experts are contradicting each other. However since our current economy is so complex and opaque, it is an almost impossible task to really understand what is going on.