city music @ your service

Cute idea, to start a streaming platform offering music based on ... cities. A location based approach by a club called CitySounds.fm. You choose a city and you get a stream, expecting the music streams to be different in Nashville than streams from New York or Berlin. Or are they? And what is that, 'music from a city': from artists living and working there? Or is 'Amsterdam' basically music 'made in Holland' and 'Berlin' music 'made in Germany'? Or is it music popular in trendsetting clubs in those cities? All tracks offered come from one platform (SoundCloud.com) , guys from Sweden who settled in Berlin and started this dedicated music site. I'm just curious how the selection of cities is going to evolve and how they make musical selections. 'Cause why would I want to know what music is being played in, let's say, Cincinatti? I'd be much more curious about Marseille, Jo'burg or ... Mumbai. And CitySounds.fm is basically nothing more than a mashup of Sound.com tracks and Flick'r images. .. But let's give it a try first. With (again) thanks to Springwise.

Snow White's mirror says ...

I'm not sure this is such a good idea. In principle, yes. Upload an image of yourself and get advice from well-meaning, impartial surfers who will comment on your appearance ... the idea was probably generated in a male set of brains. Logical. Rational. But isn't the web the place where people prefer bashing others? And according to folk lore, women are not really inclined to say something positive about their sisters (not that I know such women, but àla). Great idea with lots of but's.

These things .... depress me

Thanks to Springwise -again- I stumbled on this site, 'A fully customized calendar planning service that will simplify your life while adding a ton of fun to your child’s day'. For an annual membership of USD 499, BusyBeesNYC will create a schedule of classes and activities for a family's children that combines free, paid, scheduled, drop-in and sometimes lesser-known events while accommodating the kids' eating and sleeping routines. Thank God for that! Dzjeeses.

seems a no-brainer but why isn't everyone doing this?

What do you do with a mobile phone when you have no electricity? Not much. In Uganda, a country with almost no electricity resources available, Motorola is installing solar powered recharging stations for mobile phones. The service is, of course, free. The solar sations are manned by local, entrepreneurial, women. Now where is the catch? These women also sell (Motorola) handsets, sim-cards etc ... Actually I wouldn't call that a catch: you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours and in the end these women create the foundations to start a sustainable business and gain their independence. Check it all out on Springwise.

They never learn: roadside toolkits for women

Vorige week lees ik in Webwereld dat de consumentenelectronica zomaar eventjes 900 miljoen € misloopt door te weinig rekening te houden met behoeften van vrouwen. Met name dat vrouwen niet zitten te wachten op roze apparatuur en glitters. Heel fijne lectuur die gewoon bevestigt wat wij allemaal vanuit onze buik voelen: ik ken niemand die zich zo'n roze samsung wil aanschaffen of daar (privé of professioneel) mee wil gezien worden. Wat niet wil zeggen dat het plezant zou zijn als we voor onze identieke Blackberry's effectief coole jasjes zouden vinden ... maar dan om onze niet-roze identiteit te bevestigen en ze uit elkaar te houden ;-). Wat lezen we in Springwise? Yuk! Roadside toolkits for women, want wij vrouwen worden erkend door de auto-industrie als een macht waar rekening moet mee gehouden worden. Dus we krijgen onze eigen toolkit. Een roze. Da's toch om meteen door de voorruit van de CEO van een of andere autofabrikant te keilen?