TED Talk Tuesdays // 30 day challenge
A month ago, we launched our global #zeroLRA campaign. In the past 30 days, you set up your fundraising page, you organized fundraisers, you watched us give away our first of seven free trips to Uganda, and you helped us raise over $154,000 for the men, women, and children still held captive by Kony’s LRA. […]
Looking through the [Google] Glass
I’ll admit it. I’ve never really been a big fan of the concept of Google Glass – the futuristic goggles that act as a smartphone for your face. The idea feels uncomfortably dystopian; something that belongs in a sci-fi movie. In fact, I’m still completely against the idea of eBooks. I want to feel the words and pages of […]
Google’s Year in Review
zeitgeist |ˈtsītˌgīst; ˈzīt-| (noun) the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time Google’s Zeitgeist 2012 is officially out, and it’s everything we hoped it would be and more. They took the mass of Google searches from throughout the year, along with other search […]
Google presents // Global Impact Awards
Earlier this week, the winners of the $23 million Global Impact Awards were announced. The Google-led program hopes to instill technological innovation into the nonprofit world. Jacquelline Fuller, Director of Giving at Google, had this to say on Monday: Today we’re launching the Global Impact Awards to support organizations using technology and innovative approaches to tackle some […]
Captured on the streets
Italian artist Paolo Cirio creates figures in the public sphere using Google Street View. You’ll find Paolo’s mark all over the world — from New York to London to Berlin — in a series called Street Ghosts. In an effort to draw attention to Google privacy issues, Paolo started to plaster images on walls in Brooklyn before moving onto other major cities. […]
No driver needed. Well, almost.
As a 90’s kid who grew up in the middle of the technology and internet boom, I pictured a futuristic adulthood world with flying cars, robot helpers and hologram phone calls. With all the cool gadgets we have these days, giving up my walkman for a CD player then an iPod doesn’t really seem like […]
The loss of language
As storytellers, we value language and words and idioms and dialects. The conversation must continue and it must remain rich. In an effort to preserve the 3,000+ languages at risk of disappearing by the turn of the century, Google has collaborated with the Endangered Languages Project. Check out the video to catch the vision. -Rachel
Google Maps street view captures poverty
When it comes to photographing poverty across the world, we think of strong-willed men and women with cameras slung across their back and notepads in hand. We don’t usually think of cars with cameras on top of them. Yet, photographer Doug Rickard has assembled an entire exhibit at the New York Museum of Modern Art […]