From the monthly archives:

October 2005

Brasilia

October 31, 2005

It’s not exactly the top-touristic attraction of Brazil, but I would love to photograph this landmark in contemporary town planning which was build in less than 2.000 days and inaugurated by President Juscelino Kubitschek on April 21st in 1960. Especially the decay of the city must be eyecandy.
On the must-visit map: the [...]

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Working Context

October 31, 2005

Ine’s posting on Paragraph in New York. One of the things I never got used to in Latin America and even Rio is the absolute lack of indoor infrastructure sophistication; both for work and living. People just don’t care for the context they live in. A minimalistic functional modern classy 150m2 [...]

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Hot weekend

October 31, 2005

It has been a hot weekend. Relax, Rio tends to be safe for average visitors, just have some reckless housemates.
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Circle One to launch

October 29, 2005

BenchMark will launch CircleOne this weekend.
CircleOne is a consumer loan platform through which people can borrow money by setting their own interest rates, like an eBay for personal loans. CircleOne’s founding principle is that people from close communities act more responsibly towards each other. CircleOne leverages this powerful concept of group responsibility and applies it [...]

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10 things to do

October 28, 2005

when in Rio.
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Low-fi

October 28, 2005
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Aloha

October 25, 2005

Kompakt before it hits the market.
Newt week I’ll also post the landline nr. in the office. You might stumble into the sugarsweet voice of Luciana there; Portuguese only. Start exercising.
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Flying to

October 23, 2005

Brazil, where stars were entertaining june
We stood beneath an amber moon
And softly murmured “Someday soon”
We kissed and clung together
Then, tomorrow was another day
The morning found us miles away
With still a million things to say
And now, when twilight dims the skies above
Recalling thrills of my love
There’s one thing I’m certain of
Return I will to old [...]

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Self-Organizing Neighborhood Wireless Mesh Networks

October 23, 2005

plan for open hotspot cafés in Brussels. Add to that the plans of Microsoft for Wireless Mesh networks and VirtualWiFi: we might have something interesting here.
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Ebay promises free calls

October 23, 2005

eBay CEO Meg Whitman defended the company’s $4.1 billion acquisition of Skype by asserting that since voice data services are moving more and more to the Internet, four to six years from now phone calls will be free. eBay expects the price for voice transmission to trend to zero because the pricing paradigm is shifting [...]

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