“My vision for it was forget about what Nike is, forget about sneakers, forget everything; what does ‘make it count’ mean to me?” Neistat says. “And what it means to me is take a huge chance. Consequences aside, if I could do anything in the world, what would it be? Do I really want to produce another regular advertisement? No. I would take this production budget and go around the world and see all these places I want to see.”
It was a voyage that included stops in Zambia, Doha, Bangkok, and many other places. An extensive montage of atypical airplane food gives the viewer an idea of how far afield the pair of adventurers found themselves until the money ran out (10 days later). Over a pulsating dance track by Tiga, the two are shown running around and sampling local customs in each new city, culminating in a new tattoo and a gripping slow-motion jump off a ridiculously high cliff. It all looks loose and spontaneous and about as fun a time as anyone in Nike’s athletic-skewing demographic could wish to have. “There wasn’t much premeditation involved at all,” says Neistat. “We were just like ‘Fuck it,’ and we took off.”
Awesome!!
Source: fastcocreate.com
In 2010, foursquare fans declared April 16 4sqDay (4/4^2 – nerds after our own heart!). Two years and two billion check-ins later, you’re still why we get out of bed each day. Thanks to all 20 million of you for making us part of your lives. Happy 4sqDay!
[Update:] After a retweet from @eric_andersen where he tweeted that there are more than 20,000 developers are using the foursquare API – based on the #4sqDay movie. He asked me: “How many @foursquareAPI apps do you use?” I wondered it and looked it up on my phone and my foursquare settings page. This is the list of foursquare API’s that I use, 17 foursquare API apps:
Daily use: Path, Instagram, Timehope, foursquare Explore & foursquare for iPhone (both based on their own api’s).
Weekly use: Runkeeper & OneMoreCheckin
Monthly use: Hopscotch, Sonar, SoundTracking, SoundCloud, MayorMaker, FlickSquare, WordpressPlugin, TripsQ, 4sq Maps and Statistics & Klout.
How many foursquareAPI apps do you use?
Sweet!!!
“…not to mention each cafe in de Wallen.” ;) (Taken with instagram)
Good design is innovative
Good design makes a product useful
Good design is aesthetic
Good design helps us to understand a product
Good design is unobtrusive
Good design is honest
Good design is durable
Good design is consequent to the last detail
Good design is concerned with the environment
Good design is as little design as possible
Source: brainpickings.org
Pinterest has jumped to the #3 social network position, ousting LinkedIn and falling only to Facebook and Twitter.
Pinterest’s traffic was up almost 50% from February to January 2012 and Pinterest’s unique visitors increased from 11 million to 17.8 million. One week during January yielded 21.5 million Pinterest visits, which is 30 times what its traffic was six months prior.
Source: Business Insider
Inside the latest Path, a private personal journal that kicks ass <— Awesome!!
Dustin Mierau and Dave Morin, co-founders of Path, talk to me about how the new version of Path not just brings beautiful design, but helps take advantage of something that others don’t: they let users build a private journal that really rocks.
The QWERTY keyboard was invented in 1874 and yet it is still used today, largely unchanged. Today we’re excited to introduce a new input method designed for the future: Gmail Tap for Android and iOS.
Gmail Tap takes the keyboard from 26 keys to just two. Every letter of the alphabet is represented by a simple pattern of dots and dashes, and once you know them you can type without even looking at your screen. This makes it ideal for situations where you need to discreetly send emails, such as when you’re on a date or in a meeting with your boss.
Source: gmailblog.blogspot.com
Chuck Norris’ calendar goes straight from March 31st to April 2nd; no one fools Chuck Norris.
Who’s on First? ;)
Gareth Bale Animation. Tottenham vs Inter Milan!
The Stars as Viewed from the International Space Station.
Tip: HD and fullscreen!!
Diffusion of Check-ins on The Social Graph for La Colombe
Each node in this network is a person, each edge represents friendship onfoursquare. The size of each node is proportional to how many friends thatperson has. We can see the existence of dense clusters of users, on the right,the top, and on the left. There is a large component in the middle. There areclear hubs.
We can now use this low-dimensional representation of this high-dimensionalnetwork, to better track what happens when a new coffee shop opens in the eastvillage.
As expected, it spreads …like a virus, across this social substrate. We see aseach person checks in to la colombe, their friends light up. People who havediscovered the place are shown in blue. The current checkin is highlighted inorange in orange.
It’s amazing to see how la colombe spreads. Many people have been talkingabout how ideas, tweets, and memes spread across the internet. For the firsttime we can track how new places opening in the real world spread in a similarway.
Source: engineering.foursquare.com
