Posted by Anne on July 1, 2010
Daydreaming has been underestimated for so long, that it deserves a little article here today.
Mind wandering, more precisely, a subcategory of daydreaming according to J. Schooler and J. Smallwood, can become a fantastic opportunity for big ideas or important revelations if you seize the moment right.
You can find more about this here and enjoy some very productive mind wandering of Sandrine Estrade Boulet here:
Posted by Anne on June 30, 2010
I recently stumbled upon a very personal project on Ze Frank. I invite you all to do this little exercise. It’s useful for the memory, the heart and also for the ones around you.
It goes like this:
Think of a path it was known to you as a child. Your way to school, to your grandparents’ house, to the bakery.
Look it up on Google Street View or just picture it in your mind.
Write down any kind of memory or feeling it brings you. Then, take a photo of it and there you go with your new piece of old personal history which may at some point inspire someone.
And that is more or less like a very cool contribution to the world.
Posted by Anne on June 21, 2010
If so, this might be of great fun & interest to you.
Most of you should know about the Fun Theory, initiated by Volkswagen. The company brings some new fun to it these days with the launching of VW Polo GTI.
The marketing campaign, run exclusively on the Facebook official page, is comprised of a platform with the following motto: “Fast Lane – Driven by Fun”.
The Fast Lane Facebook page can bring you to the action faster, if you’re in a hurry and below you can see how the people in Berlin were driven by fun:
Posted by Anne on June 10, 2010
I can only guess that Eric Fischer thought of this when he designed the following maps. The red dots show the most popular photo spots among tourists. The blue ones are the popular photo spots for locals. The yellow ones are undetermined.
The author used the GPS information of images on Flickr, combined with the home city of the user taking a certain photo.
Now sit back and make your holiday itinerary, the summer vacation is so close.
London
Moscow
New York
For the full gallery at high resolution and city hints (79 cities), go here.
Posted by Anne on June 8, 2010
Dan Pink starts his 10 minute fabulous presentation with a short and precise statement: “The science is unbelievably surprising. The science is a little bit freaky”.
Determined to state this by some interesting studies he analysed, the guy explains us a little bit what the motivation drives are for specific categories of people.
We leave you with 10 minutes very worth watching, which will hopefully raise at the end one single important question to all of you, dear readers: what motivates you to wake up daily and go to work?
Posted by Anne on May 10, 2010
We got tagged by BTO on Friday evening and that made our brains go back in the memory storage room, looking for the most horrible special songs which made us dance and tap our fingers on the tables of every outing in our adolescence or youth.
There would have been many to be posted, but we made a short selection here. Kind of like a mixtape.
Since we got the ball, we pass it on to you under the tag of TV series of my youth. We start with the Dallas Intro:
Asteptam acum super hits din serialele tineretilor de la Oana, Exarhu, Monica, Mintea de (consumat) ceai, Novac si lista ramane deschisa pentru cei care vor s-o completeze 
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Posted by Anne on May 3, 2010
Derek Sivers, musician, professional clown and entrepreneur, talks at TED about how to start a successful movement. Inspirational both for flash-mob initiators and less conventional business men.
3 minutes of practical advice:
Posted by Anne on April 30, 2010
It all starts back in 1886 in the U.S. when several hundred thousand workers won the right to work only 8 h/day for the same pay check.
Nowadays, for the 1st of May we work 0 h/day. Sometimes, if it’s on a Tuesday, we don’t work on Monday either.
So it took about 130 years to go from 8 to 0, how long do you think it will take to go from 1 day to 1 week?
Posted by Anne on April 26, 2010
We slept on the photos from the party for a while and let them bake with likes, tags and comments. Today we chose 7×7 of the most popular photos and prepared the long awaited FRIENDSbook. They were chosen both from the photos taken by us and the ones taken by our friends during the live-pic-event.
Enjoy and keep on liking, tagging and commenting on our Facebook group!
Posted by Anne on April 20, 2010
A while ago Mr. Jobs held a speech at Stanford College. Some think of it as one of the best and most inspirational speeches ever given. What we know for certain is that he received standing applause at the end.
In simple words he offered great advice about making the dots connect: don’t settle, believe, stay hungry, stay foolish. And we wish this to all of you.
