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"In an effort to raise awareness / interest in its 2010 Prius, Toyota planted five 18-foot tall "solar flowers" in Boston's Prudential Plaza and provided free Wi-Fi and electricity that was "partially powered" by the solar panels attached to the petals and stem. "

Amazing film…

Now that's what I call monitoring:

"“What would 100,000 people chatting on the Internet sound and look like?” In the year 2000, this was the deceptively simple question that motivated sound artist Ben Rubin and statistician Mark Hansen to collaborate on what you are currently hearing and seeing.

"Listening Post analyzes all the text—typed just moments ago—by tens of thousands of people in Internet chat rooms around the world. It presents them as six different “movements,” combining musical tones, sound effects, synthesized voice, and scrolling text. For example, in the first movement, Listening Post monitors and displays a randomly typed text beginning with “I am.” It then searches the Internet for related phrases, creating a simultaneously funny, sad, nonsensical, pathetic, yearning, quotidian, and ultimately mesmerizing tonal poem of identity in the Internet age."

Back to the business model drawing board?

"The Stone Roses during the recording of Fools GoldReleased in the winter of 1989, the baggy swagger of the Stone Roses' Fools Gold gave the Manchester band their first top 10 hit. This footage shows the band at work in Sawmills studios in Cornwall during the recording of the single"

"We feature the kind of things you’d want to pass along to your friends: an outrageous video that’s about to go viral, an obscure subculture breaking into the mainstream, a juicy bit of gossip that everyone at the office will be talking about tomorrow, or an ordinary guy having his glorious 15-minutes of fame. And when you read BuzzFeed, you’ll always know the movies, music, and products that are on the rise and worth your time."

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