Category: Innovation

  • Manchester City goes green

    The City of Manchester football stadium – home to Manchester City FC – will soon be the first football ground in the world to be powered by sustainable energy when an 85-metre-high 3-megawatt wind turbine comes online next year. When…

  • Web 2.0 investing on the rise

    Venture-capital investment in Web 2.0 companies, generally ad-supported websites in fields like social networking or blogging, is showing signs of maturity, with more deals happening outside the Silicon Valley tech heartland. A Wall Street Journal report says: Investors directed $646.2…

  • Small moves and social objects

    The combination of something a little different, perseverance and hard work does pay off. Today Hugh MacLeod and Stormhoek Wine have that payoff in the form of the Blue Monster Reserve Label wine created by Stormhoek exclusively for Microsoft. The…

  • Virtual credit cards arrive in Second Life

    Yesterday I signed up for a credit card that I could use in Second Life. Today the approval came, so watch out virtual shops! The credit card comes from First Meta, a financial services firm based in Singapore, that has…

  • Japanese Wall Street to open in Second Life

    So businesses don’t think Second Life is worth investing their time and money in? Tell that to Dentsu and the financial community in Japan. The Japanese advertising firm is launching ‘Virtual Tokyo,’ a virtual megalopolis that will open its doors tomorrow…