Topic: Chile

Chilean Miner Rescue Shows Significant Events Can Aid Personal Branding

All of the miners will soon be exposed to a tsunami of media exposure and each of them will have to decide how they want to be viewed by people. Everything they say and do will reveal who they are, at least in the public eye.READ»

You Don't Get to 500 Million Amigos ... At This Rate

Latin American businesses are less active on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites than their global counterparts. Why?READ»

Elizabeth Scharpf's Banana-Based Pads Win the Curry Stone Design Prize

The founder of Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE) was recently named winner of the prize and is pioneering a new era of home-brewed NGOs.READ»

Interested in Africa's Innovation Scene? Catch the Entrepreneurial Safari This December

Forget Asia--here's your chance to get the scoop on Africa.READ»

Five Laws of Conflict – Burning Korans Breaks them All

This Saturday, Florida-based pastor Terry Jones had planned to lead his congregation in a Koran burning, celebrating what they call "International Burn a Koran Day." Although everyone from the Pope to Hillary Clinton has urged him to halt his plans, it seems that only a sign from God can keep him from following through. And I can't decide if Terry is short-sighted or brilliant.READ»

8 of the Most Toxic Energy Projects on the Planet

BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico served as a wake-up call for many of us who never before paid attention to the destructive energy projects happening all around the world. But while Deepwater Horizon may have attracted the lion's share of media attention this past Spring and Summer, there are a number of other toxic projects still going on. We look at some of the worst.READ»

iFive: Another Rig Explosion, NASA's Mine Solutions, Impossible Soccer Goals, China's Great Jam, Korean Cash

Innovation doesn't sleep, even though you do: But it might get stuck in huge Chinese traffic jamsREAD»

iFive: Wheat Genome Mapped, How BP Capped Well, Chilean Miners Look Well, Apple's New Kit, MIT Tech Review's Young Innovators

Innovation. It's out there.READ»

IBM Opens Corporate Subsidiary in Accra, Ghana

IBM's move signifies a growing trend and a renewed insight--that Africa is rich with innovation hotspots.READ»

iFive: Shell Exonerated in Nigeria, Crowley Slates Places, Kevin Rose on iTV, Proof of Life in Chile Mine, E.T. is I.T.

Monday is innovation's Saturday night.READ»

Now Chile Wants a Silicon Valley of Its Own - But Where's the Homegrown Talent?

How will President Pinera reconcile innovation with foreign importation?READ»

Innovation Contests: A Super Idea for Global Entrepreneurs

You get the feeling that innovation contests have hit the mainstream when one is sponsored by Tony (Iron Man) Stark, but these contests are making real-life superheroes out of young entrepreneurs around the world.READ»

iFive: Tony Hayward Gone By October, Obama and Cameron, New Star Discovered, Energy Dept Goes Online, China's Clean Energy Plan

While you were sleeping, innovation was doing things. Yep, things. I could tell you, but I'd have to kill you.1. Remember the ocean floor seepage close to BP's containment cap? Apparently it's coming from another well and, says ...READ»

Meet Claire Bonilla, Microsoft's Disaster Response Maven

Senior Director, Disaster Management, Microsoft Redmond, Washington Bonilla, 37, coordinates emergency communication solutions for stricken communities. "In a time of disaster, you're often stuck starting with a damaged ...READ»

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IBM's Open-Source Approach to Disaster Management

Director, Corporate Responsibility, IBM Latin America São Paulo, Brazil Patricia Menezes, 52, oversaw IBM's recent relief efforts in Chile, using open-source software to find missing persons and helping start communities on ...READ»

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iFive: BP and the Arts, Animals Love Innovation too, Italy Crashes Out, Microsoft Goes Very Mobile, Facebook's New Employee

As Little Italy drowned its sorrows with buckets of grappa and espresso chasers, innovation was poking fun at oil giants, skittering around on its bionic paws and playing Hunt the New Facebook Employee in the corridors of the White ...READ»

Facebook's Global Emotion Analysis: Sports Can Make Us Sad Like Disasters Do

Facebook's happiness measurements have been little more than novelties so far. But the analytics team has just tweaked its system to cover more of the world, and turned the happiness index into a serious research tool. The first ...READ»

Twitter Gut Checks Foursquare With "Points of Interest," Adds "Places," Introduces Will.i.am, and Reveals Promoted Tweets

UPDATE 5: Now onto Q&A with Twitter's COO, Dick Costolo, whose talk you can read about in the previous update. People have a lot of questions about how "resonance" will work and be tracked--looks like Twitter will have to work ...READ»

Today in Most Innovative Companies

News of note from our Most Innovative Companies, including Twitter, GE, Netflix, and HTC.READ»

Infographic of the Day: The Seasonal Food Calendar

An easy-to-use chart for finding a low-carbon shopping list.READ»

Sign of Humanitarian Relief That Anyone Can Understand

The logos for disaster relief agencies need to work harder than the average identity. Rick Barrack examines the effectiveness of several logos after the devastation in Haiti and Chile.READ»

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China Behind Yesterday's YouTube, Facebook, Twitter Outage

While the World is pondering the complex final moves in the cultural conflict between Google and China's censors, the story has has taken a completely bizarre twist: For some reason, China's censorship firewall went briefly ...READ»

Charities Offering More Jobs, Better Pay in 2010

Apart from good karma--especially given the recent tragedies in Haiti and Chile--working for a charity will also offer good career prospects in 2010, According recent findings from Professionals for Nonprofits.READ»

Design Award Upset: Small Chilean Studio Beats the Starchitects With Affordable Housing Project

2010's Brit Insurance Design Award for Architecture went to Elemental's affordable, and adaptable, housing project in Mexico, skipping over big shots like Zaha Hadid and James Corner.READ»

Core77 to the Rescue: Pop-Up Shelters for Haiti and Chile

The design blog's 1-Hour Design Challenge focuses on earthquake relief.READ»

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