Here is an interesting initiative, be part of the Google Map Maker competition and you could win $50,000 for UNICEF’s projects that aims to empower the youth in your homeland through technology. Basically participants are supposed to add hospitals, medical clinics, schools and universities in their own countries, the idea is have complete and accurate maps to help organizations such as UNICEF, and other parties to have a better source for directions.
It seems like this competition is not running in all countries, for example if you zoom to countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE or Egypt, you won’t find anything there, but even main cities, but if you go to Iran, where users are banned from being part of this competition, you will find a detailed map, I’m not sure why. Anyway, it sounds interesting, check it out, it’s open till 31st of January 2010.
2009, the year when Obama was inaugurated as the President of the United State, and won the Nobel Prize as well, it was the year Michael Jackson died, and Google launched the Wave, it’s the year when twitter scored a huge milestone with the Iranian elections. Recession got even uglier this year, but we hope it will disappear in 2010, by the way, if you are on Google Wave, you can join the discussions about 2010 here on discuss2010.com
Do you miss your family and friends? Are you bored with facebook and myspace? Here is an interesting way to get rid of all that and go back to reality, with the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine it will take 52 minutes to commit suicide, compared to 9 hours and 35 minutes with the manual suicide, I don’t think it takes that much to delete a facebook account.
So far 147 people committed suicide with this machine, I think I might join them and delete my facebook account.
Meet 80 year-old grandma Daugherty Miller, could be the oldest tweep ever she tweets via fax machine, yes, fax machine, apparently there is a service to send emails through fax, take a look here!
Adweek Media has announced winners of the Best of the 2000s, Google and Apple are big winners and that’s why I like it below are some of the winners, to review the full list, click here!
In the media category, Google is Media Company of the Decade, while its founders Larry Page & Sergey Brin won Media Entrepreneurs of the Decade, and YouTube is Web Site of the Decade
Goodby, Silverstein & Partners was named Agency of the Decade, never heard of it, Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners is Small Agency of the Decade. R/GA won the Digital Agency of the Decade, while Digital Agency of the Decade was named Media Agency of the Decade.
I’m a Mac, I’m a PC won Campaign of the Decade award, while Apple, “Silhouettes” won Out-of-Home Ad of the Decade. Non-Super Bowl Commercial of the Decade was Honda, “Grrr”, while Coca-Cola, “It’s Mine” was Super Bowl Spot of the Decade. Nike Plus won the Digital Campaign of the Decade category.
Steve Jobs was named Marketer of the Decade, totally agree! Apple Brand of the Decade, and iPod Product of the Decade. Again with Google, which won Digital Company of the Decade awards. Viral Videos for Marketing Innovation of the Decade.
she tweets via fax machine, yes, fax machine, apparently there is a service to send emails through fax, take a look 
