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California Enacts Benefit Corporation Law

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01.09.12, 10:15am Comments (0)
On January 3, California became the latest state to pass benefit corporation legislation, encouraging companies to become responsible for the role they play in the world. Read more »

Biking And Walking Ban Proposed In Wisconsin

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10.19.11, 1:18pm Comments (5)
Worried about road safety, a small town in Wisconsin wants cyclists and pedestrians to get back in their cars. Read more »

Rupert Murdoch's iPad Newspaper Doesn't Know How to Share

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02.04.11, 10:45am Comments (5)
Rupert Murdoch’s iPad newspaper The Daily finally hit the App Store on Wednesday, after months of debate among media insiders whether its iPad-exclusive delivery and subscription model is bold or quixotic. Read more »

No Opposition to Growth of SF Car-sharing Requirements

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08.17.10, 2:34pm Comments (1)
In 2002, San Francisco began requiring every residential development with 50 or more units and every commercial building with 25 or more parking spaces to have at least one space set aside for carsharing--a policy that has not only made carsharing mo. Read more »

When Socially Curated News Fails

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08.06.10, 11:36am Comments (4)
The venerable social news service Digg has a problem. As Alternet reports, a team of conservative users have been gaming the system for years through an organized effort to vote down news items contradictory to their ideology. Recently, Jezebel. Read more »

Google Reader's Social Rebirth

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07.30.10, 7:47am Comments (0)
Many of us would love to be rid of our RSS readers, to replace them with the socially-curated news feeds we get from Twitter or Facebook or Tumblr. Even when using the dominant client, Google Reader, browsing RSS feeds is problematic and frustrating. Read more »

Will Flipboard Transform Social News?

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07.23.10, 11:21am Comments (2)
Providing relevant social news remains a tantalizing but elusive goal for developers. There are many services that aggregate shared news items from across the Internet and highlight the most-discussed stories of the day. Read more »

New Legislation Seeks to Support Peer-to-Peer Carsharing

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04.28.10, 4:50pm Comments (2)
In "Would You Share Your Car with a Stranger?" Kim Gaskins identified insurance concerns as a major obstacle to the growth of new peer-to-peer carsharing services. Read more »

The Cooperative Beer

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03.09.10, 9:55am Comments (2)
The venerable English pub has long been a place where everyone from the businessman to the housewife to the student, factory worker and vicar could meet as equals — a social commons that reflected the neighborhood and its idiosyncrasies. Read more »

Has Cab Sharing in New York Really Failed?

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03.09.10, 6:26am Comments (3)
"Wondering why the city’s cab-sharing experiment fizzled last week?" writes Michael Grynbaum in the New York Times. His piece offers a range of answers: lousy locations, rider impatience, fear of strangers. Read more »
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