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On the Future of Location-Based Services

By Renee Blodgett on November 30, 2010 in California, Events, North America, Photos, San Francisco/Bay Area, USA, Videos

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O'Reilly Media's Brady Forrest leads a panel on location-based services at this year's Web 2.0 Summit. On the panel includes: SimpleGeo's Matt Galligan, Shopkick's Cyriac Roeding and Yelp's Jeremy Stoppelman....

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Virgin Has iPad-Only Magazine

By Renee Blodgett on November 30, 2010 in Asia, Europe, North America, Pacific, Photos, South America, USA

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Virgin Group has launched an iPad-only magazine called Project, which is now in the App Store. In looks and in subject matter, it is very much like Wired, minus some of the technicality and the extensive, in-depth features...

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Living on the Mekong in Cambodia: Where do you live?

By Claire Rogers on November 30, 2010 in Cambodia, Featured, Photos, Southeast Asia

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The family on this, approximately 25 long by four feet wide boat, are fishing the Tonle Than, the Mekong river in Cambodia. They fish from early morning to dark daily. They will find a, hopefully...

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Manga, Manga Everywhere But Not a Jot of Cricket

By Matt Keighley on November 30, 2010 in Asia, Featured, Japan, Photos

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My first experience of manga in Japan was not the best of introductions. I used to teach three boys, aged about eleven or twelve, at that annoying age where suddenly everything they liked two weeks...

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Thoughts on Josephine Baker

By Rosa Abbott on November 30, 2010 in Europe, Featured, North America, Photos, USA

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When Josephine Baker was cited by Miuccia Prada as one of the key inspirations behind the Prada SS10 RTW collection, it was inevitable the icon would enjoy somewhat of a Renaissance. Actress, singer, entertainer, spy,...

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Paul Costelloe at Sol Art

By Rosa Abbott on November 30, 2010 in British Isles, Dublin, Europe, Ireland, Photos

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There's nothing Too Gallant loves more than fashion and art, and when the twain meet it's always special. With this in mind, I'm very excited then about Paul Costelloe's exhibition at Sol Art. Image from Sol...

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Joan Dassin on the Trail to Transform Education & Local Communities

By Molly Theobald on November 30, 2010 in Africa, Photos

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In the first piece in our series of posts about the Ford Foundation International Fellowship Program (IFP) and its alumni, we talk with Joan Dassin, Executive Director of the International Fellowship Fund (IFF), established in 2001 to implement and...

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Behind the FAO Seed Distribution and Biopiracy Controversy

By Danielle Nierenberg on November 30, 2010 in Africa, Asia, Burkina Faso, Central America, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Photos

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In rural parts of the developing world where many people depend on subsistence farming practices, food security is not about consistent access to a supermarket but about consistent access to seed. Small farmers typically depend...

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