Transit App for iOS 6 and Beyond by OpenPlans With the announcement of iOS version 6, Apple has dropped Google Maps and with it, previously built-in support for travel directions via public transit. With your support, OpenTripPlanner Mobile, an open source application developed by OpenPlans will put transit back on the iPhone. Initially, we will offer coverage for almost all transit systems in North America (see coverage details below). The app will also add new features that Google Maps didn’t have, allowing users to combine walking, bikes, bike-share and transit together, finding the fastest and most efficient trips regardless of mode of transportation.
About For the last 8 years, on an island in Fiji, a beach in Sierra Leone, in the Umbrian hills of Italy, and now in Mozambique, we have been working in partnership with villages and, together with 2500+ visiting tribe-members, have developed two communities from scratch. We’ve generated $3m in revenues, re-invested into the local villages and created over 100 jobs. Vorovoro Island, Fiji 2006-2011 In April 2006 Ben Keene (26 years, UK) put out a call for people to join a new online tribe, whose mission would be to build a sustainable tourism community on the Fijian island of Vorovoro in partnership with the local landowners and villagers.
Documentary Film Styles have a history, like everything else. The following is a chronology of documentary and ethnographic styles. This chronology includes films I especially love, and some I heartily dislike, and accordingly recommend for varying reasons. After the chronology (based on the spectacular work of David MacDougall in his great book entitled TRANSCULTURAL CINEMA), they are listed first in alphabetical order and are then categorized into each of the four major documentary styles-to-date. DOCUMENTARY FILMS / STYLES Revised 3/27/02 Frequently Asked Questions There are many ways to promote your project. 1) First, there’s your Ulule project page: Do a good job of presenting your project and use interesting visuals to illustrate it (videos, images, portfolio...). Then, update your project blog with news on your project’s progress and/or funding, or to let people know you’ve added new visuals or rewards. 2) Spread the word through your own network: Your first donors will often be people who are close to you, who know how committed you are to your project, and who interact with you personally. And don’t hesitate to talk about it with your acquaintances and colleagues. You’d be surprised at how much support you can get from people whom you hardly (or don’t) know when they are excited by your project.
The Connected States of America Visuals 1 2 3 This page provides our visualizations of the communities based on the anonymized, aggregated call and SMS connections. Please let us know what you think in the comment section below. We are also looking forward to hearing from you about the geographic peculiarities. The Connected States of America Low rate loans - fair borrowing - from Zopa.com Zopa is the UK's leading peer-to-peer lending service. We reward savers and borrowers who are good with their money by providing lower rate loans and higher interest on savings. Since Zopa was founded in 2005 we've helped savers lend more than £512 million in peer-to-peer loans and have been voted 'Most Trusted Personal Loan Provider' in the Moneywise Customer Awards for the past 4 years. How P2P lending works Who we are Zopa is run by a team who draw experience from a range of industries including Financial Services and is backed by the firms who also invested in companies such as eBay, Betfair and Lovefilm.
Sensing Place. Mediatizing the Urban Landscape Back to overview 31. August 2012 - 11. November 2012 jump on opportunities How it works Eppela is a reward based crowdfunding platform which allows you to create a project, share it with your network and obtain funding for its implementation. The target Whether you are an artist, a writer, a filmmaker, a geek, a designer, Eppela is the right place where you can make your project/idea jump, where you can create your new business and / or your successful startup. Why to choose Eppela To promote the challenge of "being funded by the crowd," you have to believe in the co-creation idea of a project, supporting your creativity or the one of other creatives.
Data.gov Clarity We shouldn't be surprised that people are often confused by Data.gov. It is new, and represents something complicated. When the current budget cuts were revealed to include cuts to the e-government fund that supports Data.gov, everyone starting questioning Data.gov's value. Comments have tried to defend, or sometimes to cast doubt on, Data.gov's value, through a few partcular lines of question. Sunlight hasn't been shy about criticizing this administration, and we've certainly been critical of Data.gov in the past. But the current budget fight throws a little clarity on what it is we could lose if Data.gov were to go dark. Transition Towns: Initiatives of Transformation In 2006, when Rob Hopkins moved from Ireland to the small English town of Totnes with his family and co-founded the first Transition Town Initiative in the world with some friends, he surely never imagined what he was starting. Six years on, there are more than 500 “official” Transition Town initiatives in more than 38 countries, and several thousand more are in the process of formation in many cities, towns and regions across the world. The model of Transition transcends cultural barriers and languages, and works very well on all levels in between the regional and the personal. It is open enough to inspire people from Brazilian favelas to small towns in Sweden, and it offers enough common features to forge global connections in how these people think and act in their locality.
P2P-Urbanism: Backed by Evidence After decades of central planning that ignored local conditions and the complex needs of final users, and then tried to do away with the commons for monetary reasons, people have forgotten the principal geometrical, human-scaled patterns that generated our most successful urban spaces throughout history. There has been an important loss of the shared knowledge that once let people build humane environments without much in the way of formal planning. The general form of urbanism implemented during the 20th century and the beginning of our own 21st century was large-scale, centrally planned development. Different methods of design came into vogue during this time, each explicitly trying to avoid traditional building forms and techniques that have been used for hundreds, if not thousands of years.
How to Keep the NSA Out of Your Computer John Hersey Editor's note: Clive Thompson answered readers' questions about this article on Reddit on Aug. 28. Click here to view the conversation.