In this video from Osaka, Japan, a 10,000 member amateur choir performs the “Ode to Joy” section of Beethoven’s Symphony Number Nine. The concert is an annual event, but this year’s performance — recorded in late December 2011 — was dedicated to the victims of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Incredible.
Reminds me of the ‘brass band’ at the Landesposaunentag in Ulm I participated in many years go, where over 8,000 trumpet players come together on the plaza in front of the Ulmer Münster to play together.
37Signals is selling it’s designer portfolio board:
We either sell it by July 1, or we close it down. And we’ll make it easier this time so there’s no guessing: The price is $480,000, cash. No special deals, no partial payments now the rest later, no equity in your company, etc. $480,000 cash and it’s yours.
Is the fact that Sortfolio is not just generating revenue but also profit a hindrance for all the VC’s in the Valley?
Perhaps Facebook should buy it for $480 million?
Sort of. Pre-private beta if you will. That’s called: We’re creating demand by limiting access.
Love their logo… pop!
Take a picture of a home. Get all the publicly available information instantly on your phone.
And just like that the QR code died.
First, the scientists noticed that the yogurt-eating mice were incredibly shiny.
And there is more… Jason, this one’s for you and your ‘Chobanis‘.
Via Kotte
Every large corporation these days is trying the emulate and be like the nimble, flexible startups down the street. This is Apple’s approach:
There’s work and there’s your life’s work.
The kind of work that has your fingerprints all over it. The kind of work that you’d never compromise on. That you’d sacrifice a weekend for. You can do that kind of work at Apple. People don’t come here to play it safe. They come here to swim in the deep end.
Something big. Something that couldn’t happen anywhere else.
Welcome to Apple.
What would you be willing to sacrifice your weekend for? And would you do it for an employer or would you want to do it on your own terms, running your own company?
The Verge is hiring more staff to become THE tech new source on the web.
Good, their site is brilliantly designed and the competition is floundering right now.
By Trixy. Loved the display. Get the dolls on Etsy starting next week.
VfB Stuttgart fans are displaying a ‘Tifo’ before the last home game of the 2011/12 season:
“Tradition bewaren und and die Helden ihrer Zeit erinnern.”
That’s how you get grown man to cry!
Man, I love my Seattle Sounders FC, but I will forever be a VfB fan.
My local town is starting up a Music Awards Show.
Brilliant idea. After all I am from Olympia the home of some great music roots that now seem almost forgotten. The event is going down this weekend and I really hope it’s going to be a huge success and can lead to a sort of rebirth of our music scene.
But as a designer and owner of a web shop their website makes me cringe…
And it sucks that Facebook makes it so easy to build web communication. Everyone, small businesses and organizations register domains and setup a simple WordPress site that never gets updated and all the communication happens on Facebook. Bummer, not just for Google but for everyone else that’s not regularly on Facebook, and there are still a few people out there.
For the Canadian Paralympic Committee.
Local marketing campaign that hardly anyone heard of last time around is trying it again.
‘Capturing smart tags’: To participate go there do that, then do that, then do that and than do that.
Yepp, straight forward and to the point.
What I also love about the promotion is that there is zero! zero social media campaign build around that? No Twitter, no Facebook.
Oh so fun.
“A house is not a home with at least one bookcase full of books.’
Great minimalist posters showing the history of the FIFA Soccer World Cup.
Want them all.
Marco Arment:
Most of my favorite writing over the last few years was about specific products or technology companies. There’s a place for that, but in one year or three years or thirty years, who’s really going to care about the politics of technology and the nuances of gadgets in 2012?
It drives traffic…. lots and lots of traffic.
I am in the same boat. My analytics tell me what gets found, what is popular, and what drives traffic. That is what I am after, after all. Or am I not? If not, what am I after?
Inspiring people. Yes, that’s it. But, how do you measure that, if not in numbers?
Pour me a glass of wine.
After the Sounders crushing win over LA Galaxy last night everyone was talking about why the LA coach Arena left some of his star players at home.
Even among the Sounders players and fans who should have been just happy with the win, there was a deeper emotion – the feeling that LA Galaxy had insulted them by withdrawing so many of their big names.
Are the Sounders already turning into Barcelona or Madrid, where other teams are so scared off that they are not even attempting to compete?
That can hardly be case, as LA is at least as strong, last year’s MLS Cup winner and big rival of the Sounders in the Western Division.
But the turf and the schedule is two things the MLS has to look into.
Having different teams play on different turf is hard on teams and something that needs to be addressed in the near future to level the playing field.
Also, the schedule, that some teams have already played a lot more games than others and schedule fluctuate so much across the league seems counterproductive and is confusing for fans and coaches.
And with the news that American Football is increasingly having to explain themselves about if the violence makes for a healthy and sustainable future, the call for real grass on Seattle’s Century Link field might increasingly fall on open ears. After all the Sounders had over 39,000 fans attending yesterday’s mid-week game.
AllThingsD has the story.
Diggnation stopped too soon.
Coding for the iPad… that’ll get me to leave Dreamweaver behind.
Looks great and just $9.99. Jason, volume purchase for Pignite?
John Cade on Twitter:
39,000 at the #SoundersFC match. ON. A. WEDNESDAY. Welcome to the future, America. Soccer is coming your way.
Welcome to the future, indeed. And what a game.
Is fantastic.
And is exactly what you think it is: A cross between Instagram and Pinterest.
Developed by two guys. Way to get yourself acq-hired in an instant. Who’s going to buy you up?
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