Archive for February, 2008
Here’s an interview of 2 French sailors, and members of Laneo, who share with us some interesting views on their sport, the sailing industry and the environment. This interview is in French as it refers to many untranslatable facets of this culture and I think it’s only fair for those French speaking members of Laneo and our readers to be able to listen to their compatriots in “Molière’s language”. Plus, we’ll be doing more and more interviews of Laneo members around the world and these will be conducted (if possible) in the local language.
If you’d like to hear & read more about these two passionate sailors, please check out their blogs:
Alexandre – www.alexsailing.com
Laurent – www.laurentgouezigoux.com
Enjoy !
Posted by: andrew |
Tags: interviews, community
Our friends at JIWOK (they’ve enrolled over 120 members) have just launched a cool new MP3 Training Program to help everyone achieve their goals while having fun. The originality is that this service is delivered via the web onto any MP3 device and includes not only great music (under a Creative Commons license) but real scientific based coaching that is synced to the tracks. Anyone who has ever done any running knows what it’s like constantly gazing at your wristwatch computer looking for indications on whatever parameter you programmed if for, while trying to maintain a specific rhythm! Result – you almost get seasick while doing it. What’s neat about this is now it’s the music that tells you when to make your effort or to cool down and even better, you can choose from a wide range of training programs and different types of music, so you have an endless variety of material to get you out the door! And if that wasn’t enough, it’s free and you can join the community and share whatever crosses your mind with other athletes around the world!
Take a minute and check them out, they’re really great guy’s at JIWOK and just like us – they want to “save our playground”!
Posted by: andrew |
Tags: music, sports, community, news
As I mentioned in a previous post, we’re starting to receive some great initiatives from around the world in the form of short sport oriented videos that focus on eco-sports initiatives to demonstrate what exactly “reclaiming our playground” means.
Here’s the 1st of what we hope will be an international series of mini-movies that has been launched by Courbevoie Triathlon (just outside Paris, France) and in this sequence, we’re going “behind the scenes” to one of their prepatory meetings.
Enjoy !
Posted by: andrew |
Tags: films, sports, community
Great article on how simple ideas (Tapping into Great Ideas by Oli Barrett ) can produce big effects and why Laneo is part of it.
Posted by: andrew |
Tags: websites
Laneo attended the LIFT 08 Conference in Geneva last week, a conference about the challenges and opportunities of technology in our society. In the same category as DLD 08 (see post below) but very different in style and flavor, LIFT was once again an excellent venue for spreading the word on Laneo’s mission and also a true learning experience. Some of the keynotes that caught my eye (and ear’s) were the following:
- Younghee Jung, Anthropologist working for Nokia in Tokyo & Paul Dourish, a researcher from University of California Irvine about user experience.
- Rafi Haladjian, founder of Minitel start-ups and internet/wi-fi providers in France about his latest venture; Violet.
- Tom Taylor from Headshift, talk about how to use peer pressure and social networking to get ordinary people to change their behavior in favor of more sustainable activities.
You can see full-screen videos of the presentations here VPOD.TV
LIFT 08 is an example, and there are others, that bringing together a very wide variety of people from around the world to promote and facilitate discussion about new technologies and their impact on our society, is really effective.
Posted by: andrew |
Tags: technology, society, community
The most significant piece of the new website (Kilimanjaro release) is without doubt the Eco-Cleanup section. As you know, Laneo’s goal is to make it easy to cleanup the planet and our business model is dedicated to optimizing the flow of resources to grassroots projects. We’ve been working extremely hard over the past 6 months to find grassroots cleanup projects around the world by scouring the web and activating all our networks. At the moment, we’re in discussion with close to 100 projects in 16 countries, which I hope will result in 20 – 30 being selected and displayed on our website in just a few weeks. This will enable you to start taking action by support the projects, voting for them (which will give it a greater “weighting” for our corporate partners sponsorship), volunteering for them (we’ll put you in touch with the organizers), telling your friends about them (which will raise awareness) and donating to them (100% of your donations will go directly to the projects.) Corporate support remains the principal source of funding and our goal is to see that at least 80% of all the projects we present in this first round receive sponsorship through corporate involvement permitting each event to fully achieve their objectives.
There are a lot of other features we’ll be adding to this section of the website over the next months so don’t miss our upcoming email announcements and start taking action to cleanup our playground!
Posted by: andrew |
Tags: laneo website
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