Poo-powered Wi-Fi

Albanian bunkers, Michel Gondry's novel cars, state-shaped skillets and more in our look at the web this week

Mexican Internet company Terra recently launched a publicity campaign that proposes to offer owners free Wi-Fi in exchange for their pooch’s poo. The buzz campaign incentivizes lazy masters to keep the neighborhood clean—adding wireless minutes in exchange for pounds of excrement.

The World Without

Albanian bunkers, Michel Gondry's novel cars, state-shaped skillets and more in our look at the web this week

Imagine a world without some of the richest and most recognizable people—celebrities, entrepreneurs, athletes. Brazilian Ogilvy did in “The World Without…”, a series of infographic ads depicting what the absence of a handful of iconic figures would take away from history. Three billion less photos uploaded per month without Mark Zuckerberg, 5.3 million less people traveling by plane without Richard Branson and 121 less women …

99% Conference 2012 Day 2

The conference on idea execution continues

Based on the Thomas Edison quote that “genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration”, we founded the 99% Conference with Behance four years ago to help inspire idea execution. As day two of this year’s conference is underway, we just heard a bit of entrepreneurial insight from Jonathan Adler and Warby Parker co-founder Neil Blumenthal and are now anxiously awaiting the words of design mastermind …