It is interesting to contrast the state of women entrepreneurship in the US with that of the developing world. If you look at startup activity there you find women dominate the scene. More than 80 percent of most microfinance loan portfolios go to fund women-led startups. Kiva also sees 80 percent of the loans on its side go to women. Granted, these are very different kinds of startups than US-based tech companies, but it is quite a contrast nonetheless.
Feb
22
2012
Feb
17
2012
Lunch with Mayor Gray, talking tech at @Personal office in Gtown (Taken with Instagram at Personal)
Feb
09
2012
Feb
09
2012
By making his Los Angeles-based underwear startup a membership service, you will not only cease to find yourself in a sock or panty deficit, you will stay hip to the latest fashions in the process. (via With Underwear Vending Machines, MeUndies’ Jonathan Shokrian Reexamines Shopping for Basics)
made for people like me.
Feb
03
2012
Feb
02
2012
caro:
Breast cancer has ripped through my family so violently that I’m pretty much guaranteed to get it in a pretty nasty form down the road if I haven’t already managed to get mauled to death by rabid howler monkeys. But I have a good job, great health insurance, and an awesome doctor who is already helping me a lot with regard to prevention and early detection. A lot of women aren’t lucky enough to have any of this.
Komen’s decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood’s free cancer screenings for low-income women is yet another reason why the organization disgusts me and will never get a cent from me. It does spend plenty of money on exorbitant executive salaries, showy marketing, and predatory lawsuits against smaller charities that come within a football field’s distance of maybe-possibly-sort-of emulating its logo or messaging. So donate to an organization like BCRF instead, please.
And while you’re at it, I’d recommend throwing some pocket change to Planned Parenthood, which by the way spends most of its time preventing abortions rather than performing them, thanks to educational programs and contraceptive distribution.
(Link via rachelfershleiser)
Jan
29
2012
When a US Airways plane landed in the Hudson River on a freezing January day in 2009, some of the earliest photos came from users posting to Twitter and Flickr. Now, a new app called Spread is helping more user-generated photos make the news. (via Sell Your Photos to News Outlets with Spread)
Jan
26
2012
LLBean Celebrates 100yr Birthday with Bootmobile!
The Maine Hunting Shoe upon which the L.L. Bean Bootmobile is quite loosely basedwas born in 1912 and was (and still is) considerably more fashionable than a giant boot with an Ford F-250 underneath it, but any boot you could buy wouldn’t be SEVEN FEET LONGER than the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile, nor would it commemorate a 100th birthday in a big way. Naturally, you want to know what size shoe it is, right? Try 747. No joke. Nor is the way-too-earnest Youtube video where you can learn all about the making of the Bootmobile, Orange County Chopper style. (http://thegoat.backcountry.com/2012/01/26/holy-freeport-maine-its-the-bootmobile/)
This is why I love maine. More on their fun plans here.
Jan
22
2012
Jan
19
2012
This open-source Android app helps protect the identity of subjects in human rights videos. ObscuraCam detects faces automatically (you can select any it misses) and then offers various options to obscure them, including blurring with pixels and erasing completely. The app also deletes metadata such as location and camera type. These features grew out of a conference session on mobile tools and human rights and a subsequent hack day that outlined early features. (via Safely Document Protests and Human Rights Abuses with ObscuraCam)
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