Webofimpact » Fun http://www.webofimpact.com Business and Marketing Strategy Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:56:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Vancouver 2010 Olympic Medals have new radical design http://www.webofimpact.com/vancouver-2010-olympic-medals-have-new-radical-design/ http://www.webofimpact.com/vancouver-2010-olympic-medals-have-new-radical-design/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:25:21 +0000 Bruce http://www.webofimpact.com/?p=95 Check out the new Olympic medals for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic games:

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/story/2009/10/15/bc-vancouver-olympic-medal-design.html

Some amazing new designs.  They played with many aspects – including shape (squarish), depth contour (wavy), and design (abstract).

Very cool.

Bruce

]]> http://www.webofimpact.com/vancouver-2010-olympic-medals-have-new-radical-design/feed/ 0 The web’s first 5000 days http://www.webofimpact.com/the-web-in-the-first-5000-days/ http://www.webofimpact.com/the-web-in-the-first-5000-days/#comments Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:54:07 +0000 admin http://www.webofimpact.com/2008/08/22/the-web-in-the-first-5000-days/ Here’s a great quote that came to me from a GLG newsletter:

In less than 5,000 days, the Web has gone from the linking of a few computers in a lab to satellite images of the earth at our fingertips. Today, the Web has 100 billion clicks and 55 trillion links and carries 2 million e-mails per second. There are 1 billion PC chips in use, 65 billion phone calls made per year, and 600 billion RFID tags being used. Every second, we move the equivalent of half the Library of Congress across the Web. All that in less than 5,000 days.

So what will the next 5,000 days bring?

In the same inbox I just received an invitation by Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle for the Web 2.0 Summit taking place in San Francisco Nov 5-7th. So what’s next indeed..!? Hopefully I’ll find out at the Summit and share it with you. :)

Bruce

]]> http://www.webofimpact.com/the-web-in-the-first-5000-days/feed/ 0 MyMadMonkey.com my environmental play for guilt-free living http://www.webofimpact.com/mymadmonkeycom-my-environmental-play-for-guilt-free-living/ http://www.webofimpact.com/mymadmonkeycom-my-environmental-play-for-guilt-free-living/#comments Tue, 27 May 2008 00:47:52 +0000 admin http://www.webofimpact.com/2008/05/26/mymadmonkeycom-my-environmental-play-for-guilt-free-living/ My brother, a friend and I started a bamboo t-shirt company recently as a hobby. The premise is simple – each t-shirt comes with “a month of guilt free (carbon-free!) living” in the form of carbon off-sets (Carbon Karma!) financed through the profits of the t-shirt. The site is still in its infancy. The store is live, but the brand and education website around the sea-saw of reduction and offset is in the works and launching soon.

“Sea-saw reduction/offset” – by this I mean if you work on both reducing your carbon footprint AND off-setting the stuff you can’t or don’t want to reduce by paying/building/planting something that removes carbon from the atomosphere, you’re actually accelerating environmental success. Cause let’s just be honest… no one is going to give up all carbon-generating aspects of life just ’cause the world is dying. So the point of Mad Monkey bamboo t-shirts is to make it easy to be cool and be green.

Mad Monkey bamboo t-shirt logo

This is a for-profit company. I endorse the theory that environmental causes are accelerated if they have commercial viability. If there is a profit centre in it, investment money will flow. If investment money flows, innovation and consumer adoption will accelerate. You want to speed up the formula? Focus on innovative for-profit investment-backed start-ups.

mymadmonkey.com

Buy a t-shirt!

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