trendd: This was such a cool idea. Click the article link below to see them in action. “Coldplay has been turning their audience into interactive participants at recent concerts by handing them Xylobands, LED-illuminated wristbands that can be activated all at once using a radio signal. The wristbands come in a variety of colors and have the Twitter hashtag #coldplayfilm printed on them to promote the band’s live DVD. When ‘turned on’ at certain points during the concert, the audience is illuminated with multicolored twinkling lights like a giant display.” (via Coldplay Wristbands Turn Concert Audience Into Giant LED Display - PSFK) View high resolution

trendd:

This was such a cool idea.

Click the article link below to see them in action.

“Coldplay has been turning their audience into interactive participants at recent concerts by handing them Xylobands, LED-illuminated wristbands that can be activated all at once using a radio signal. The wristbands come in a variety of colors and have the Twitter hashtag #coldplayfilm printed on them to promote the band’s live DVD. When ‘turned on’ at certain points during the concert, the audience is illuminated with multicolored twinkling lights like a giant display.”

(via Coldplay Wristbands Turn Concert Audience Into Giant LED Display - PSFK)

(Reblogged from trendd)

respectacles:

7. “Food manufacturers now spend nearly twice as much money on advertising their [breakfast] cereals as they do on the ingredients that go into them.”

– 9 Surprising Facts About Junk Food, Mother Jones

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America cannot agree clear and simple solutions to internal problems like gun control. How can us feeble foreigners look to the US for leadership in international conflicts like Afghanistan or Iraq or anywhere else? The US political leaders seem to be personally self serving, totally directed by lobbyists and money. The dearth of leadership continues
Congressional gun control legislation is falling apart
Every little helps

Every little helps

Yikes

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Yet another example of NHS ineptitude, lack of leadership and accountability.   Between January and June 2012, Serco staff falsified data 252 times, the NAO report says, based on Serco’s own forensic audit of 107,000 patient calls over the period. Serco told the NAO the changes were “unacceptable” and unauthorised and were the work of two individuals in the Cornwall service who had now left. Staff are now banned from using a “dummy account” which enabled them to change raw data in the logs (via Private contractor fiddled data when reporting to NHS, says watchdog | Society | The Guardian)

Yet another example of NHS ineptitude, lack of leadership and accountability.  

Between January and June 2012, Serco staff falsified data 252 times, the NAO report says, based on Serco’s own forensic audit of 107,000 patient calls over the period. Serco told the NAO the changes were “unacceptable” and unauthorised and were the work of two individuals in the Cornwall service who had now left. Staff are now banned from using a “dummy account” which enabled them to change raw data in the logs (via Private contractor fiddled data when reporting to NHS, says watchdog | Society | The Guardian)

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The essence of social media is democracy. Everyone has something to say. Unfortunately, everyone doesn’t have something interesting to say. Or intelligent to say. As a matter of fact, almost no one has anything interesting or intelligent to say.

As user-generated-content has become the standard, and as marketers’ content tries to emulate and imitate user-generated-content, it is being relentlessly dumbed down. It is devolving into empty platitudes and boosterism.

We are in for a period of truly vapid online marketing in 2013. It will be the year of content without content

The Ad Contrarian: The Content Con
jayparkinsonmd: Moves is disrupting Fitbit, the Fuelband, and all those other nonsensical gadgets.  I’ve been using Moves for about 2 weeks now and I really, really love it. It’s an app that essentially functions as a pedometer and runs in the background tracing where you’ve been throughout the day and measuring your steps.  It is not some goofy thing I have to wear on my wrist or on your bra. It’s not something I have to remember to charge. Fire it up once, and it’s on for as long as you have an iPhone. It may not be as “good” as a Fitbit or Fuelband, but it works just fine, it’s available to everyone with an iPhone for free, and it runs in the background of your life. And, most importantly, I haven’t noticed an impact on my iPhone’s battery.  It’s a classic disruptive innovation.  I bought a Fuelband a few months ago, synced it with my iPhone, and connected it to Facebook. Facebook said “You have 37 friends with a Fuelband. Click here to see how many people have live data in the past week.” I clicked and saw 2 people. I immediately returned it to the Nike Store. I knew that goofy thing would be in some drawer in a month after the novelty wore off. And I don’t like to throw away money for gimmicks. My iPhone is not a novelty. And Moves now runs in the background of my life letting me know how active or inactive I’ve been that day. Interesting, motivating, and exciting stuff. Congrats to the Moves team. Y’all are killin’ it. View high resolution

jayparkinsonmd:

Moves is disrupting Fitbit, the Fuelband, and all those other nonsensical gadgets. 

I’ve been using Moves for about 2 weeks now and I really, really love it. It’s an app that essentially functions as a pedometer and runs in the background tracing where you’ve been throughout the day and measuring your steps. 

It is not some goofy thing I have to wear on my wrist or on your bra. It’s not something I have to remember to charge. Fire it up once, and it’s on for as long as you have an iPhone. It may not be as “good” as a Fitbit or Fuelband, but it works just fine, it’s available to everyone with an iPhone for free, and it runs in the background of your life. And, most importantly, I haven’t noticed an impact on my iPhone’s battery. 

It’s a classic disruptive innovation. 

I bought a Fuelband a few months ago, synced it with my iPhone, and connected it to Facebook. Facebook said “You have 37 friends with a Fuelband. Click here to see how many people have live data in the past week.” I clicked and saw 2 people. I immediately returned it to the Nike Store. I knew that goofy thing would be in some drawer in a month after the novelty wore off. And I don’t like to throw away money for gimmicks.

My iPhone is not a novelty. And Moves now runs in the background of my life letting me know how active or inactive I’ve been that day. Interesting, motivating, and exciting stuff. Congrats to the Moves team. Y’all are killin’ it.

(Reblogged from jayparkinsonmd)

felixsalmon:

Eddie Huang on TED: “It was like being at a fucking Scientology summer camp. It was horrible.”

Brilliant - Ted as Scientology

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