This Visualization is displayed downtown in Nike's Soho store. Nike actually installed tracking in thousands of participants' shoes, then analyzed the data to make incredible New York City map overlays of routes, habits and styles of different runners.
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The MTA is challenging software developers to use MTA data to create apps that improve the transit experience of its 8.5 million daily riders.
As markets convulse this week, Trulia (usually in innovator in real estate tech) launched an new blog copycatting Zillow's tabloid-style coverage of real estate news of the filthy rich. Trulia Luxe Living highlights real estate properties belonging to celebrities, athletes and plain-old opulence. I know gossip and dishy news about the personal lives and finances of megalomillionaires drives traffic, but I think it's a bit of a step back for one of my favorite listing websites.
One of the reasons I preferred Trulia over Zillow is that Trulia never took a TMZ-style approach to real estate, and stuck to quality listings, innovative hyperlocal tools and professional advice. Besides possibly being slightly in bad taste, a focus on multimillion dollar palaces than few people can afford might entertain the real estate obsessed, but it will drive away serious consumers and transactional traffic, Trulia's most valuable user base.
An interactive guide to the origins of some of the world's best known brands
ACCORDING to Greek legend Athena sprang fully formed out of the head of Zeus. Business analysts have a preference for corporate Athenas. They admire ‘pure-plays’—companies that focus relentlessly on their core businesses—and apply a discount to diversified companies. But in the real world businesses are constantly evolving. This evolution is usually from low value-added—ie, making and selling stuff—to more high value-added. Sometimes the evolution makes sense: it is possible to see how you get from making playing cards to making video games, as Nintendo did. Sometimes it is more surprising: Wipro, an IT giant, started life making sunflower oil and soap (and indeed continues to produce them). The process of evolution takes many companies on to great things. But others retreat into shadows of their former selves. The East India Company, which once ruled India, has recently been reborn as a posh Mayfair shop. There may be more such shrinkages to come. Nokia has transformed itself from a humble manufacturer of cables, paper and rubber into a mobile-phone giant. But if the company continues to flounder in the smartphone market it might consider going back to making rubber boots. Roll over the company logos below to see the origins of some of the world's best known brands.
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