Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Yay for the Interweb
I really do enjoy the internet.
Fazed and Fark keep me busy with cool and fun links. Yesterday was a particularly bountiful day.
Carrotmob: Harness the power of group buying to convince stores to make socially beneficial decisions. Check out the video at the top of the page. Basically, ask a number of companies in a specific "industry" to compete against each other for the business of the mob by agreeing to make the most significant socially beneficial change. The mob then buys stuff from that company.
Their first "mob" was to liquor / convenience stores in San Fran. Of the 20 they initially checked out, the highest "bidder" agreed to direct 22% of revenue to retrofiting the store to increase energy efficiency. Literally hundreds of people showed up on the day to buy from the store - more than $10k of purchases translating to > $2k of retrofits.
So far it's pretty grassroots and small, but several gloabl carrotmob groups have sprung up, and there's lots of potential for this to be a really cool global trend.
Meat Art: Seriously, you gotta check these out...and click in to view atleast one or two at higher res. All these landscapes are made entirely from real actual food. My favourite is the one with prosciutto trees / deli meat sky.
Storm pictures: I've seen lots of storm cloud pictures in my day, but these are BY far the coolest / freakiest I've ever seen. Hard to believe it's real...
Fazed and Fark keep me busy with cool and fun links. Yesterday was a particularly bountiful day.
Carrotmob: Harness the power of group buying to convince stores to make socially beneficial decisions. Check out the video at the top of the page. Basically, ask a number of companies in a specific "industry" to compete against each other for the business of the mob by agreeing to make the most significant socially beneficial change. The mob then buys stuff from that company.
Their first "mob" was to liquor / convenience stores in San Fran. Of the 20 they initially checked out, the highest "bidder" agreed to direct 22% of revenue to retrofiting the store to increase energy efficiency. Literally hundreds of people showed up on the day to buy from the store - more than $10k of purchases translating to > $2k of retrofits.
So far it's pretty grassroots and small, but several gloabl carrotmob groups have sprung up, and there's lots of potential for this to be a really cool global trend.
Meat Art: Seriously, you gotta check these out...and click in to view atleast one or two at higher res. All these landscapes are made entirely from real actual food. My favourite is the one with prosciutto trees / deli meat sky.
Storm pictures: I've seen lots of storm cloud pictures in my day, but these are BY far the coolest / freakiest I've ever seen. Hard to believe it's real...
Labels: I Love the Internet
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