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February 28, 2012 • 3:37 pm 0

Integrating London’s public transportation options

Many cities today are striving to create dense, well-connected public transportation networks that reduce auto-dependence, mitigate congestion, and provide a variety of travel alternatives. Unfortunately, the complexity of large transit systems can be daunting even for native residents, especially when users need to transfer from one type of transportation to another. Juggling transit schedules, maps, and route listings just to get from Point A to B can make public transportation an unattractive option for some.

Enter the smartphone users, who might say, “Well, isn’t there an app for that?” Read the rest of this entry »

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December 13, 2011 • 9:22 am 0

Chromaroma. The Name Doesn’t Matter – It’s Cool!

I’ve never been a gamer. Even back in the days of early Atari, Sega, and Nintendo systems, I never got much beyond the 3rd or 4th level of Super Mario Bros. I just couldn’t bring myself to care about these fantastical worlds.

But with today’s technology, games aren’t just about fantasy anymore. They take place in the world around us, intimately integrated with our lives, and we are the very characters in search of points, credits, and check-ins. And I am starting to come around.
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December 13, 2011 • 9:22 am 0

Chromaroma. The Name Doesn’t Matter – It’s Cool!

I’ve never been a gamer. Even back in the days of early Atari, Sega, and Nintendo systems, I never got much beyond the 3rd or 4th level of Super Mario Bros. I just couldn’t bring myself to care about these fantastical worlds.

But with today’s technology, games aren’t just about fantasy anymore. They take place in the world around us, intimately integrated with our lives, and we are the very characters in search of points, credits, and check-ins. And I am starting to come around.
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January 11, 2011 • 8:27 am 0

Google’s Next Steps

Image from Wikipedia

Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, recently wrote a brief article indicating his company’s role in the “mobile revolution.”  As we have highlighted in our book Connected Cities, mobile technologies already have been responsible for and continue to offer further opportunity in market creation (to the tune of 256 billion euros).  The technology has only hit the tip of the iceberg, and Schmidt notes the next three places he intends to take it.

First, Google will focus on the underlying fast networks; second, on the development of mobile money; and third, on the availability of inexpensive smartphones in developing countries.  Of note in the second two categories are a few companies from our Showcase.  It appears that Google’s initial intents in regards to mobile money are for consumers in more developed regions; it’s near field communication, or NFC, technology enables smartphone users to pay for groceries, clothing, or other consumables simply by waving their phone near an in-store device.
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December 7, 2010 • 8:42 am 1

Visualising Biking

This morning I opened up my email to find the December 2010 World Carfree Newsletter.  The World Carfree Network is a global organization promoting alternative transportation advocating for quality of life improvements for all.  Every month, they send out a newsletter that is chock-full of news from around the world relating to the “carfree movement” – moving towards more mixed use, denser environments that de-emphasize the private automobile and encourage bicycling, walking, and public transit use.

This morning I clicked a link that led me to the Slideshare presentation embedded below.  The presentation itself it somewhat dry, but it contains a wealth of information and links regarding some really amazing bike share data visualization projects.  I wanted to share a few of the highlights here.
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October 28, 2010 • 8:33 am 0

Crowd-Sourced Infrastructure

Boris Bikes Chilworth Muse

Credit flickr user Stew Dean

When I lived in San Francisco, I used the San Francisco Bike Coalition’s form for requesting bicycle racks from the City.  During that time, the City was under an injunction barring it from installing any new bicycle-related facilities, but the data was still useful for planning efforts.  Now that the injunction has been lifted, the City is seeing the benefits of collecting that citizen-sourced data through the online form and its mobile phone app, Cycle Tracks.
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October 21, 2010 • 3:07 pm 0

Connecting cities: a Cluster.eu interview with Sascha Haselmayer

Cluster.eu, a great online and published magazine, gave me some challenging questions about our book “Connected Cities: Your 256 Billion Euro Dividend“.

Read it here - Connecting cities: an interview with Sascha Haselmayer.

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October 1, 2010 • 4:20 pm 0

Now out: Spanish Edition of our Handbook on Service Innovation in Cities

Living Labs Global is pleased to invite you to the launch of the book “Tu Dividendo de 256.516 Millones”, the updated and Spanish language edition of our handbook “Connected Cities: Your 256 Billion Euro Dividend” be published by the University of Barcelona. The book features a new epilogue by Professor Xavier Torrens, placing the book as a critical contribution in the current debate on local and urban innovation policy. Read the rest of this entry »

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August 3, 2010 • 6:48 pm 2

The Case of Tourism and Roaming

In our Handbook on innovation in services and mobility in cities, we published comparative data on the cost and impact of digital vs paper tourist maps. One of our conclusions is that digital mobility costs 1,011x more than paper maps. The updated table below, reflecting the latest available data on global tourism in cities (2008), shows the scale of the burden roaming poses on cities.

Table taken from "Connected Cities: Your 256 Billion Euro Dividend"

The cost of roaming to global tourist cities (2008). Source: "Connected Cities: Your 256 Billion Euro Dividend"

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November 9, 2009 • 11:10 am 0

Adidas Addendum: Tracking Marathon Runners

For two consecutive years, Adidas succeeded in extending the scope of their London marathon sponsorship by creating real value for users while galvanizing its own role as an active wear brand. Moving beyond the splash and wear logo model of competing sponsorship models, it launched the Adidas Runner Tracker application, allowing families and friends to track the status, pace, and estimated finish time of their loved one. Read the rest of this entry »

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