ShareAware*

Would love to know what peoples expectations of this app are. After apps like Duet, Between, Icebreak & Kahnoodle that have taken on very different perspectives on the 'apps for couples' space, it would be interesting to know what people want out of the next app. Sign up for Twogether and send in your ideas as to what you think the app should do.

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Airbnb's Global Growth | Infographic

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:40:00 -0800

via airbnb.com

WHOA !!!

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NIKE+ FuelBand makes life a sport

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:02:00 -0800

via nikeinc.com

The ergonomic NIKE+ FuelBand captures and displays four different metrics: time, calories, steps and NikeFuel – a new metric that will be the ultimate measure of your athletic activity. NikeFuel is a proprietary technology that measures your activity through the movement of your wrist. NikeFuel motivates athletes to do more with a NikeFuel score that makes movement fun, meaningful and comparable, letting you compete with athletes of all levels in most activities. The more you move, the more NikeFuel you earn, whether you’re playing basketball, throwing a Frisbee or going for a run.

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Basis Band Health Tracker (video)

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:44:00 -0800

via engadget.com

The Basis Band is a health tracking watch with optical sensors that track your heart rate, an accelerometer to see how active you are, galvanic skin response to measure your perspiration, plus ambient and skin temperature sensors. All that data gets run through a few Basis algorithms to create a picture of your health that's displayed in the handy-dandy web portal you see above. The dashboard is meant to make your data digestible so you can create (and meet) your health goals, and there's both game mechanics and social media integration to keep you motivated.

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MetroChange - Unused subway fares donated to charity

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:19:00 -0800

via springwise.com

Every year, some USD 52 million is lost by users of New York City’s MetroCard payment system when they replace old cards that still have a small amount of value remaining. Aiming to put that leftover money to better use, MetroChange is a new system designed to capture that last bit of change on old cards and donate it to charity instead.

MetroChange has designed a kiosk to be placed at busy subway stations throughout the city — “especially those where tourists and occasional users of the subway transition out of the subway system, transferring to an airport or regional train service”. Commuters and travelers who have a small amount of unused value remaining on a card can swipe that card at one of those kiosks, where the value will be recorded and transmitted to a central fund. The customer’s physical MetroCard, meanwhile, is taken for recycling. Then, MetroChange’s central fund will be converted into real money each month and donated to charity.

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The Best Design Tools On The Market | Infographic

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:39:00 -0800

via fastcodesign.com

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Antilia: Explore Mukesh Ambani’s home in Mumbai

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:41:00 -0800

via guardian.co.uk

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Wait a Minute, Mr. Postman: Subscription Services are Back, With a Digital Spin

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:19:00 -0800

Remember Columbia House? BMG Music Club? Back when people bought actual CDs, they were wildly popular. For a cheap price (10 for the price of 1!), members would automatically get new discs every month. No, you didn’t need all that music, but it sure was fun to get.

As much as we live online now, we still like getting stuff. Tangible goods. Things we can hold, use and wear. And lately, it seems, the web-savvy are gravitating towards physical products, partly in reaction to the ubiquity of digital. Just look at the “maker” movement (see On the Make in Think Quarterly’s People issue), the rise of DIY and the popularity of bits-to-its services like Postagram.

Thanks to eCommerce, we have access to more stuff than ever. And consumers have become a lot more comfortable buying online (aided by one-click ordering, free shipping and easy returns). The number of U.S. consumers buying online will increase 14.9% to 170.3 million in 2015, according to eMarketer. Between 8-10% of all queries on Google are shopping related. But there is so much available, it can be downright overwhelming. The paradox of choice is that too much selection makes it harder to select anything at all. It’s a problem of which the internet is both a cause and a cure.

That’s where a slew of new “push shopping” services come in. Including Birchbox, Shoedazzle, and Quarterly.co, these sites leverage eCommerce, online data and expert curation to help consumers make up their minds.
Unexpand article

via thinkwithgoogle.com

Join the club. Consumers are signing up for a slew of new “push shopping” services that bring the best of the web to the real world. Words by Allison Mooney.

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The Cult of LEGO | The Book

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:11:00 -0800

via brainpickings.org

Those who don't love lego stand up!! ... I don't see anyone out there.
A nice book to gift to some of my geeky and non-geeky friends :)

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Path app gets a new life !! You'll love it :)

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:14:00 -0800

via vimeo.com

I would definitely recommend that you download it if you have an iPhone ! :)

www.path.com

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Handpicked & curated links

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:01:49 -0800

Shape Type, the letter shaping game

Gaurabh Mathure posted about 6 hours ago

Share links in a caring and responsible way with Handpick.

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What are these structures in the Gobi Desert in China? | Quora

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:07:00 -0800

via quora.com

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Whats smaller than Apple's market cap? | Infographic

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:33:00 -0800

by visually via

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Katachi : A funky iPad mag with origami based interactions

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:35:00 -0800

You might want to turn down the volume for this video. The music definitely shows off the Norwegian origin of this magazine - a place completely submerged by electronic music.

Exclusively designed for the iPad, Katachi chronicles global design culture, individuals who transform society and ideas that fuel our collective imagination.

Katachi definitely does a great job at pushing the boundaries of browsing a magazine or content in general. I wonder if the content is engaging enough for people to continue readership.

The only magazine that truly keeps me engaged is the Monocle - because of the varied high-quality content that the editors curate. At the outset, Katachi seems to be a digital contemporary of the Monocle in terms of the topics it covers. I'm curious to find out.

(Of course, nothing can replace the Monocle for me - yet, since the tactile feel is priceless and decorating my bookshelf with actual copies of the magazine is something that can be done only with a real magazine).

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Katachi : A funky iPad mag with origami based interactions

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:35:00 -0800

You might want to turn down the volume for this video. The music definitely shows off the Norwegian origin of this magazine - a place completely submerged by electronic music.

Exclusively designed for the iPad, Katachi chronicles global design culture, individuals who transform society and ideas that fuel our collective imagination.

Katachi definitely does a great job at pushing the boundaries of browsing a magazine or content in general. I wonder if the content is engaging enough for people to continue readership.

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Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:45:00 -0800

"Remove the friction between the two people to communicate"

Jack Dorsey on the formula to create social products

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