Next World 1 of 6 Future Life on Earth

NARRATOR : ln the future, we will fly over traffic. . .live to 150. . .and travel the world at the touch of a button Technology is pushing from every direction, getting faster with each passing second. Prepare yourself. The future is closer
than you think. As future cities grow, so do the dangers of climate change. More than half of the population are living in cities worldwide, and that is forecast
to go up to as much as 75 % over the next 30 years.

NARRATOR : 8 of the 10 largest cities in the world are located on the coastline, and nearly half of the entire world's population lives within 90 miles
of the sea.

JOACHlM : l n the current world crisis that we're in, especially climate change, we need to rethink cities
from scratch.

NARRATOR : But what if we could build cities that ride the rising tides?

OLTHUlS: So, we have to find new solutions. Not fighting against the water, but living with the water. The house you see is a floating house. This house can go up and down with the water.

NARRATOR : But homes like this are just the beginning. Koen Olthuis wants to build entire cities that float using building blocks of foam slabs encased in a concrete shell. Putting them together, he can create platforms as large as 400, 000 square feet. That's the size of two city blocks.

OLTHUlS: That gives us a lot of very stable, large-scale foundations on which you can do almost anything. You can build towers on it, apartments, put trees on it. We're really floating right now. lt feels really stable.

NARRATOR : Floating homes will combine into floating neighborhoods, which can detach and float to a new area whenever they like.

OLTHUlS: Floating roads, floating car parks, floating airports.

NARRATOR : Koen's architecture firm, aptly named Waterstudio, plans to build whole sections
of movable cities. OLTHUlS: Built in one place, and after 10 years, maybe relocated to another part of the city.

NARRATOR : l n fact, whole cities can decide to weigh anchor and drift off in search of more appealing climates. This is really gonna happen.

NARRATOR : Even existing cities will find ways to escape the limitations of land. l nstead of merely scraping the sky, we'll be building entire avenues in it, suspending massive structures in the air. The first glimmer
of what that might look like is the Chinese television tower CCTV in Beijing, arguably the world's most audacious building.

SCHEEREN : l n many ways, the design is an anti-skyscraper. lt really proclaimed very clearlynot to follow
the race for height, to dominate the skyline by being the tallest.

NARRATOR :
At over 4 million square feet, the CCTV building will be the largest office building in the world, pushing the Pentagon to number two.

SCHEEREN : The building will house 1 0, 000 permanent staff and receive several thousand visitors daily,which really makes it a building at the scale of a small city.

NARRATOR :
The CCTV building is big, but big was never the point. The point was to create vast areas of usable space that do not take up space on the ground. But this is not simply a sky bridge. lt is an 1 1 -story building hanging 500 feet in the air.

SCHEEREN : Here you can see the overhang of the building, a cantilever that projects out 7 4 meters and 1 62 meters height with up to 1 1 stories on top.

NARRATOR : Two main towers lean 1 0 degrees on a diagonal. During early construction, Chinese officials called it ''the dangerous building. ''

SCHEEREN : There was, indeed, great concerns at the beginning of this project -- kind of public disbelief
if a building like that could really stand up. lt stands on two big raft slabs, two concrete footings that, in themselves, are anchored by 1 , 400 piles that go 33 meters into the ground. Maybe one of the most important contributions that the building could make is to go a lot further and to imagine new possibilities
for people to inhabit space.

NARRATOR :
Buildings suspended in the sky are an intelligent use of future real estate. But in the future, every square inch of every city will be alive with intelligence. Because every street and every building will have a network of microcomputers built right into them. Dr. Kris Pister calls it ''smart dust. ''

PlSTER :
A smart dust particle, or mote, is a wireless sensor with sensing computation, communication, and power
in one package. NARRATOR : These all-in-one microcomputers will be small very small.

PlSTER : The size of a mote today is about the size of a grain of rice. We've shown that we can make
the circuitries small enough and light enough that, eventually, it will be possible to make things that are
on a submillimeter-size scale.

NARRATOR : Tiny specks of computer smart dust will form a vast invisible network that can help manage the infrastructure of even the largest city.

PlSTER :
Smart cities in the future will take this low-power, inexpensive, small technology and basically distribute it everywhere.

NARRATOR : These tiny computers record information about their surroundings, information they can send
to other computers or to you. Smart dust on the tracks will monitor your commuter train so you know
if it's running late. Potholes will be able to report themselves and warn your car. And you'll never have to wait for a radio traffic report
again.

PlSTER : They're monitoring the flow of traffic and giving you alerts about what route is the right way to go to keep the traffic moving.

NARRATOR : Bridges will get a coating of smart dust particles that can warn us when they detect stress fractures, helping avoid deadly collapses. But smart dust will also allow buildings and streets to recognize you
and respond accordingly.

jOURET: l think increasingly the environment will respond to who we are and adapt in consequence. The city will know where you are if you want it to.

NARRATOR :
Your workplace will know you. Smart dust at the entrance will boot up your computer. And smart dust embedded in the elevator doors will automatically ring your floor. Smart dust is going to sense the environment and allow us to improve the way that we live our lives.

NARRATOR : No matter how we live in the future city, it will be radically different. And once you leave
the future city, the road you take may not be a road at all.

HANCHETTE: One day, you'll simply be able to get into your personal aircraft and push a button, and the airplane will do everything on its own.

NARRATOR :
There are approximately 600 million vehicles on the planet today. By 2020, it's estimated there will be 1 . 2 billion automobiles on the road, leading to a traffic nightmare. But the coming decades promise entirely new ways of getting from ''A'' to ''B. '' The advances in civilization has always come about with advances
in the way we can travel.

NARRATOR : Where we're going, we don't need roads. lt's every kid's dream to be able to fly, have no constraints, and be completely free to fly through the air.

How the Facebook mail

The e-mail enters the 21st Century: with a new mail service will continue the social network Facebook, the various digital communication channels to bundle its online platform. News.de has summarized the key changes.

What is new about Facebook's Universal Service?
Facebook provides a uniform surface to combine all known and existing communication channels. All e-mails, Facebook messages, instant messages and SMS should be run together in a mailbox, where it manages.

Will my e-mail address soon be obsolete?
Each user can theoretically give up its existing e-mail address and communicate as a Facebook user over the network also with people who are not members of the network. This can request its own Facebook address that will be composed of the first and last name and the suffix "@ facebook.com." But this is not a must.

What are the advantages of the new Facebook service?
The big advantage for the user is that all contacts can be managed with a service. Moreover, the real-time communications are possible, as is the case, messaging and chat, or instant.

How much space has the Facebook inbox?
About the size of the mailbox, there is as yet no concrete information. The space is but (as with Google's Gmail) be so large that arise during normal use, no space problems.

The new service will cost money?
No, like any other Facebook applications is also the new service will be and remain free. However, are displayed on the user customized advertising, as in Facebook so far has been the case.

When can I use the new system?
Facebook will test the new feature in the next few months all its users. During launch the service in the U.S. in the coming weeks, should have to wait German Facebook users probably a little longer. The release of the service is scheduled through individual invitations.

Can I archive my email communication?
Similar to Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird can sort incoming messages different folders are created. It is also possible via a message tree view of the earlier conversations.

Can attachments (attachments) sent?
Yes, the new system will also attachments can be sent and opened. Facebook offers it even possible to open such attachments in Microsoft Office formats without Office installed.

Will there still be a subject line?
No, Facebook dispensed in the usual e-mail constituents such as subject lines, copy (CC) and blind copies (Bcc). By this, the Facebook concept seem spontaneous - like a chat service.

What about data protection?
An issue of concern. Facebook founder Zuckerberg acknowledged in the publication that it will be necessary for the smooth running of the new service to collect the email addresses of people who interact with Facebook users, even a member of the network, however.

Can I get my Facebook mailbox with Outlook or Thunderbird?
No, the retrieval of the Facebook-mail accounts with e-mail programs, Microsoft Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird is not yet planned.

How safe is the new mailbox from spam?
Use the settings should be faxed if only Facebook friends and their friends can send messages, or whether all e-mails are received. This is a spam be stopped.

Facebook advanced

Facebook surfing, browsing Facebook, Facebook read: The largest network in the world is growing steadily. The hype also brings with it many small programs that will increase the fun on Facebook. We show the best applications.

Constant growth and no end in sight: The boom around Facebook holds continuously. In Germany, the Internet giant continued to achieve double-digit growth rates, but in 2011 the network was able to attract 25 percent, with 3.6 million new members. A total romp now 17.5 million Germans in the social world blue.

In an international comparison is at best mediocre, with a total user base of 21 percent of the population has the Zuckerberg'sche network in Germany even more (members) potential. In Switzerland, for example, is already one in three Facebookianer.

Through the resulting quasi-monopoly developed Facebook, to the dismay of many critics, becoming a power in the network. Who wants to leave the promised land no longer, as he surfs the Internet. This is made possible as the social browser Rockmelt.

With the beta version of the browser to be surfing the social experience. Rockmelt aimed explicitly at Facebook users, with no account one need the browser to fetch the first place. All users, he promises above all, more overview when browsing the online status of favorite Facebook friends appear in the left pane, right Facebook, Twitter and YouTube app informed constantly about the latest news and Instant Messaging via Facebook Who is continuous in the browser window possible. For Facebook Junkies certainly a worthwhile alternative browser that lets you on the network itself does not have much time has to spend.

Always up to date

But Rockmelt is only one of many meta-services around the largest network in the world: How does early as Google also Facebook around a growing periphery of services and applications that promise to let the virtual life are more universal in order not nothing to miss.

Who's Firefox for Rockmelt not want to give their marching orders can, for example, keep a plug-in by water, which automatically displays all of Facebook updates. For friends are old-fashioned newspaper reading is the network news the other hand, in the five-column design, such as post-post services make it possible. Optional filters the use of either all Facebook messages or only the posted links, video or images of the network's friends and associates it, visually reminiscent of iGoogle.

Fulfill a similar function as social news reader or Utopic Know About. Who is there on his Facebook or Twitter account logs on, the pages more clarity promise while pooling of social networking activities. How comfortable and rewarding it is, however, in addition to scroll to Facebook in a second window, must have to decide for themselves.

Facebook - Friends in Marketing

Their target groups are the Web 2.0! And where are you?

Social media are about to revolutionize marketing. Involvementand participation are key words. Communication with customerstakes place at eye level. Consumers are becoming active participants of marketing, products and even brands.

Felix and Klaus Holzapfel, experts in alternative marketingstrategies illustrate that attract the users in social networks, how to deal with them "brotherhood, " what you can learn from them and how they are actively involved in their own marketing strategy. For only those who understands Facebook can do to positionthemselves and campaign design, the nerves do not talk but as a welcome "friend" of himself. It transformed the recently introducedsocial plugins Facebook static Web pages into interactiveexperiences, network information and create attractive addedvalue for users and companies.

This book guides you through the world of social networks Facebook. It shows how to integrate Facebook in your marketing and the promotion and communication opportunities it offers.

Using numerous examples of international practice - from largebrands to the one-man company - the authors show how toovercome the new challenges in marketing, communications and PR and opens up an audience of millions - worldwide.

Author Biography

Felix Holzapfel is the CEO of the German branch of conceptbakery.The agency specializes in the development of alternative marketing strategies for companies in Germany and the USA. He has a reputation as an author and co-author of several books and hasmade ​​frequent speaker for unconventional, digital and cross-media marketing.

Klaus Holzapfel has lived since 1997 in the U.S. and is CEO ofmarketing agency conceptbakery LLC in Denver, CO. This isfocused on the development and implementation of exceptionalconcepts in the areas of social media and guerrilla marketing. He is also expert in the content of advertising with a good cause and founder of the non-profit organization Ubuntu Now.

Facebook offline: Facebook down and not available again

Once again, the popular social network Facebook offline andunavailable. One reason for the failure of Facebook was not to bringin the hour experience.

Just a few days, Facebook was offline and unavailable for several hours, caused the last failure, the mass of users to process the Facebook every day have been added.

Currently, according to Facebook's own data on some 500 million users have every day new ones are. Millions of users are currentlylooking into the empty words and try to refresh numerous attemptsto reach Facebook. This is the server additional burden.

Not only Facebook itself is down, and all widgets such as buttonsLike, Friend boxes and much more on external websites work at the hour "break" and not part of the layout

Facebook is changing the media world

The Press Club Low Net has on Wednesday again searched the conversation and this time the subject was as modern as it can hardly be modern: it was about the media phenomena that go beyond the internet all the limits the areas timeliness, mobility and the number of users. "Facebook, Twitter & Co." are the preferred means of communication in the current generation and you have to be an online specialist, to detect these phenomena in magnitude.

"Everything has changed through Facebook, it is always different, " commented the head of RP Online - named Dr. Rainer Kurlemann - the situation and defined the consensus in the casino of the Savings Bank - Location Wednesday of the conversation. Particularly the named social network it seems to the RP and its online portal to have done. Recognized in its unique abilities and characteristics, the traditional press tries to exploit these new opportunities for itself and uses it specifically to disseminate information and content. "However, Facebook  is not a portal, where you just pour just pure content. It must also interact and respond to feedback." they also said in an interview.

Kurlemann recognizes, like many others in Facebook a whole new medium that will have irreversible impact on journalism. For comparison, he drew on the competition platform, Google, which already has left its indelible mark on society. Given the continued growth of users and hence significance of the social network Kurlemann credited even with the fact that it was a short way until "facebook" as a verb would be included in the dictionary.

Relate Given this new giant of the media world has its own niche, the daily newspaper, to continue to exist. These were the discussants at the Wednesday meeting at the Casino of the bank an idea: local coverage are the strengths of the old medium and this is his future.

Facebook - potential for my business use.

Facebook: How can I use the potential of my business "On Friday, 3/25/2011 held in B-1st place in Dortmund a Facebook Workshop is clearly explained, is why Facebook become indispensable as a sales channel and how the possibilities of!. Can use fan page, and Facebook group advertising as a company practically. organizer social media and PR agency "steady news" is.

On web pages you see the "Like-me" button (thumbs up), at the box office by Deichmann advertises "We are on Facebook and Rügenwalder even striking on TV, that they are represented on Facebook. But why should only big companies use this free distribution channel?

In this workshop we would like to bring the network closer to or further your Facebook experience already gained. But focus on the ways you can position your business effectively on Facebook.

We will interactively walk you through the options of companies on Facebook, and clarify any questions or concerns. Notice that the subject is also discussed in detail. Facebook is a network for companies, which can target the audience to be addressed.