Year: 2013

Impact Lab > 2013
Analysis, Internet, Latest Trend

Inmates post reviews of prisons on Yelp

Prison inmates post reviews to Yelp.

Robert Miller , an attorney, has visited five prisons and 17 jails in his lifetime, but he has reviewed only three of them on Yelp. One he found “average,” with inexperienced and power-hungry officers. Another he faulted for its “kind of very firmly rude staff.” His most recent review, a January critique of Theo Lacy jail in Orange County, Calif., lauds the cleanliness, urban setting and “very nice” deputies.

 

 

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Analysis, Business, People Making a Difference

How to create the best workplace on Earth

The organization of your dreams.

What if you wanted to design the best company on earth to work for? What would it be like? Harvard Business Review asked hundreds of executives in surveys and in seminars all over the world to describe their ideal organization. This mission arose from their research into the relationship between authenticity and effective leadership. Simply put, people will not follow a leader they feel is inauthentic. But the executives they questioned made it clear that to be authentic, they needed to work for an authentic organization.

 

 

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Analysis, facebook, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

189 million people use Facebook without ever touching a computer

Facebook has a grand total of 189 million “mobile-only monthly active users (MAUs).

Facebook has for some time been focusing on getting its network into the hands of everyone around the world, be they tech sophisticates in urban centers or nomadic herdsmen in South Sudan.

 

 

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Analysis, Games, Internet, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News, Video Games

Google is melding real and virtual worlds with games, apps, and Glass

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Ingress, Google’s virtual reality game

In Google’s global alternative reality game, Ingress. that uses the real world as its gamespace, Ingress says, “the world around you is not what it seems.” And, perhaps, when Google’s semi-independent division Niantic Labs is finished with its mission, we humans won’t be, either.

 

 

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Architecture, Great New Product, People Making a Difference, Science & Technology News

Abod – tiny houses that can be built in a day

Abod

One billion people of the world’s population lives in informal communities – sometimes known as shantytowns, tent cities or, if you’re really going for the jugular, slums. Doug Sharp, president and chairman of BSB Design, came up with a tiny, inexpensive home for slum dwellers that can be built in less than one day by one family. (Pics)

 

 

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Analysis, Food, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Transgenics – next wave of genetically modified crops could ease concerns over ‘Frankenfoods’

Transgenic canola

When the first genetically modified (GM) organisms were being developed for the farm, says Anastasia Bodnar, “we were promised rocket jet packs” — futuristic, ultra-nutritious crops that would bring exotic produce to the supermarket and help to feed a hungry world.

 

 

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