A new location tracking application for the iPhone called Stalqer is about to launch in the US. The app runs in the background and broadcasts your location to your friends automatically every 15 minutes.

In response to a 3% tax on broadband access,Mexican citizens began on and off-line protests.

Open Mind’s Question Box project make the internet’s information accessible to individuals in the developing world at the touch of the button.

BBC World Service’s Save Our Sounds site collects and archives all the different sounds of the world.

Virtual Street Corners brings together two communities who rarely interact with the help of a video connection.

Finland is set to become the first country in the world to make broadband Internet a legal right, according to their Ministry of Transport and Communications.

Kind Snacks encourages unexpected acts of kindness with special cards that are passed along through a loosely connected chain of strangers.

At our recent Good Ideas Salon, Jan Chipchase explored numerous insights gathered from his extensive travels around the globe.

DIY inventors in Africa have developed innovative solutions to practical problems with old plastic containers.

Frontline SMS is a piece of software which turns a laptop computer and a mobile phone or modem into a two-way group messaging hub.

The charter city concept is a model of urban development seeking to start new cities within developing countries that foster rapid economic growth through the establishment of autonomous zones that operate outside the normal policies and regulations of a given nation.

We had the opportunity to attend a symposium at Pratt Institute as part of their “ReIGNITE!” series during alumni weekend. The event brought together a group of panelists from across a wide range of disciplines speaking on ideas related to redefining the good life and reconsidering creative value in the 21st century.

In a fascinating illustration of crowdsourcing (and piracy) in China, Yeeyan, a collaborative translation website, has posted the prologue and first two chapters of The Lost Symbol.

Adlens adjustable-focus glasses change prescription with the turn of a dial.

Netflix recently awarded their $1 million prize to a seven person group of statisticians and computer scientists for improving the accuracy of customer movie recommendations by ten percent.