Y, ¿qué es del e-Commerce en Latinoamérica? 107 FlaresFilament.io 107 Flares × Bien es sabido que Latinoamérica es una de las regiones del mundo donde se encuentran grandes economías emergentes, como es el caso de Brasil. El PIB de esta región aumenta año a año a mayor ritmo que el de zonas desarrolladas como la Unión Europea o las economías avanzadas del G-7 que han registrado una variación porcentual del PIB en 2011 del 1,62% y 1,38% respectivamente en comparación con el crecimiento del 4,52% que experimentó la zona de América Latina y el Caribe. Este dato es un buen reflejo del desarrollo económico que está ocurriendo en la zona en general, pero un interrogante que me viene a la cabeza es ¿qué está pasando con el sector del e-Commerce? Claro está que si no es por el desarrollo que ha tenido Internet en los últimos años y su aceptación por parte de la sociedad ahora mismo no estaría escribiendo esta entrada y probablemente ni existiría blog alguno donde colgarla.
Fridtjof Nansen - StumbleUpon Fridtjof Nansen If you can look at this picture and tell me that this isn't one of the sweetest photos of a dude with a 'stache that you've ever seen, then you obviously need to learn a little something about facial hair and being awesome. This picture alone makes the guy badass, even if you didn't know the story behind it. You will be pleased to learn, no doubt, that the man behind this vicious strip of solidified testosterone is sufficiently badass to pull off a soup strainer that epically righteous. It can be no other way. Fridtjof Nansen was a tough-as-nails Norwegian psychopath with an impossible-to-spell first name and an unstoppable desire to constantly freeze his balls off and risk his life in the name of science and kickassery. In 1882, the 21 year-old Nansen went on a naval expedition to Greenland and instantly fell in love with the harsh, unyielding hellhole he discovered there. Ah, good times. After the war, Nansen continued being awesome to the world. Links: Fram Museum Main
The 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores in the World [Editor’s note: In celebration of the holidays, we’re counting down the top 12 Flavorwire features of 2012. This post, at #1, was originally published January 31.] With Amazon slowly taking over the publishing world and bookstores closing left and right, things can sometimes seem a little grim for the brick and mortar booksellers of the world. A gorgeous converted Dominican church gives the power of reading its due diligence. Modern design at its finest in a store full of art books. We love the stairs as reading and display area, the wall-to-wall bookshelves, and the simple, clean design. This divine neo-gothic bookstore, opened in 1906, contains what we consider to be the ultimate definition of a stairway to heaven. Somehow, this bookstore manages to be both whimsical and slightly macabre all at once. There’s magic in the air at this English-language bookstore in Beijing. How could any kid (or adult, for that matter) resist those delicious reading nooks?
16 Chinese Startups Came Out With A Bang At The ChinaBang Conference Editor’s note: Guest authors Gang Lu, Ben Jiang and Jason Lim are the editors of TechNode, a bilingual blog based in China. ChinaBang conference, an annual two-day event with a focus on local startups, innovation and entrepreneurship, was held last weekend in Beijing. With a mixture of keynote and panel discussions from local startup founders and entrepreneurs, the awards ceremony recognized the best Chinese startups and founders in 2011 and featured a startup launchpad contest. Organized by TechNode, ChinaBang’s Launchpad competition had 16 teams pitch to 14 judges (from GSR Ventures, IDG, Qiming, Matrix Ventures, Atomico, Singtel, Paypal, Innovation Works, CyberAgent, Rovio, Infinity Ventures, Taishan, CSDN) and a live audience. Each team was given 10 minutes to present on stage – five minutes pitch time and five minutes for answering judges’ questions. The judges scored each team on a scale of 10 points. Here is the rundown of all startups presented on stage in the launchpad. ShenBian
Read your bookcase - Creative Collection - StumbleUpon October 23rd, 2011. Both comments and pings are currently closed. Read your bookcase. A fantastic modular, typographic bookcase by Saporiti. PLEASE NOTE: To prevent spam, your first comment will be moderated so there may be a short delay before it appears. 50 Most Influential Books of the Last 50 (or so) Years In compiling the books on this list, the editors at SuperScholar have tried to provide a window into the culture of the last 50 years. Ideally, if you read every book on this list, you will know how we got to where we are today. Not all the books on this list are “great.” The criterion for inclusion was not greatness but INFLUENCE. The books we chose required some hard choices. We also tried to keep a balance between books that everyone buys and hardly anyone reads versus books that, though not widely bought and read, are deeply transformative. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 45.
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Amazon, the Company That Ate the World Jeff Bezos is channeling Steve Jobs. It’s mid-September and the wiry billionaire founder of Amazon.com (AMZN) is at his brand-new corporate headquarters in Seattle, in a building named Day One South after his conviction that 17-year-old Amazon is still in its infancy. Almost giddy with excitement, Bezos retrieves one by one the new crop of dirt-cheap Kindle e-readers—they start at $79—from a hidden perch on a chair tucked into a conference room table. When he’s done showing them off, he stands up, and, for an audience of a single journalist, announces, “Now, I’ve got one more thing to show you.” He waits a half-beat to make sure the reference to Jobs’s famous line from Apple (AAPL) presentations hasn’t been missed, then gives his notorious barking laugh. “What we are doing is offering premium products at non-premium prices,” Bezos says. To demonstrate the Kindle Fire, Bezos pulls up a chair. There are some limitations to the Kindle Fire. Bezos claims he doesn’t think defensively.