smarterplanet:

Santander: Test bed for smart cities and open data policies | SmartPlanet

To support SmartSantander ambitions, the city is deploying more than 10,000 sensors to monitor everything from garbage collection to crime to air quality. Libelium, a Spanish startup, has contributed around 1,000 sensor nodes, which monitor available street parking (see sensor embedded in street, in image above), collect air quality data and manage street lighting for better energy efficiency.

The last angel of history - Introduction (by marky1dark)

designersof:

Astronaut family portrait I made for a music video.  Video can be seen here.

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fastcompany:

The Rise Of The Superconnector

I call them superconnectors because they link others in a more meaningful way than algorithms currently can, and they can’t survive unless they’re excellent at it.

Superconnectors follow a certain pattern: Helping others increases net productivity and success for both helper and helped.

Historically, there have always been people who can simply unlock doors; usually these are hard-to-reach folks like senators, celebrities, industry bigshots. Today’s entrepreneurial superconnectors are people mere mortals can access; their job is to show someone the right door and introduce the person with the key to it. And, fortunately for most of us, more of them are popping up all the time.

“You look at entrepreneurs and deals, and for me, very few of them came from a cold call,” Bethea explains. “I think there have always been connectors secretly weaving relationships together throughout the years, but now it’s getting brought into the light because it’s accelerating rapidly from social networking.”

Read the full story here.

Has a ‘superconnector’ helped you along the way?