Max Gladwell

It’s a solution to global warming, dependence on fossil fuels, air pollution, urban congestion, parking, and obesity. That’s what we call a mega solution. From YouTube: The concept vehicle in the animation is a human-electric hybrid. You power the generator and the electric motor drives the vehicle. You can also drive it as an electric [...]

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A celebration of one of the foundations of social media. Plus, a great YouTube RSS tip Evidently, May 1st is “RSS Awareness Day.” And why not? It’s one of the greatest and most efficient ways to stay informed and manage news. It so dramatically streamlines the process of finding the information that’s important and relevant [...]

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Umair Haque wants to help you and your startup make the world a better place. When we look around at the Web 2.0 landscape, we see a lot of promise. We’re looking at the glass half-full when it comes to the nexus of social media and green living and their combined potential to change the world. [...]

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From Earth2Tech: Can Twitter help you turn your lights off? IBM’s “Master Inventor” Andy Stanford-Clark has rigged up his home to twitter its energy use, and if you follow the tweets you can see in real time when Stanford-Clark has turned his lights and fountain off or on and whether he has an “unusually high [...]

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“There is this amazing confluence of technology and opportunity at a time where we really can change the world. And there are some big problems that need to be solved.” –Tim O’Reilly The Web 2.0 Expo took place this week in San Francisco. We attended virtually through Twitter, blogs, and Blip.tv. The keynote from Tim [...]

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