Granted... this is not a Windows Phone ad, it's all about Vodafone Red Box service, but something that did caught my eye and the main reason why I want a Windows Phone, is that it just works... everything is there at you fingertip, all integrated... no need for Jedi training.

We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thanks Seth for reminding us how much we are forgetting in these digital days.

We are off for a brand new year and this one, like the one before, has been up for great surprises and adventures... and just like so, I found this video today and thought it might as well be the best way to start the year off... let this be a happy new year for all!

One reason that so many of the most popular sites online are those that permit people to express and expose their ideas is that those are the pages we care most about. We go back to see how people responded, how the traffic is, what we can do to improve the page.

Social media, crowd-sourcing, build it and they will come... there are so many cliches these days about content generation leads and yet there are not that many players thinking truly in how to empower your contributors to be successful... at the end of the day it's thru their success that you will succeed.

Wondering, what are you doing to make your tribe succeed?

it's not everyday that I seat infront on a video, lecture or reading that inspires me to a level of just remain speechless and immersed in the afterthoughts for a few minutes.

this video right here is one of those... it starts with a poem... if follows with a great inspirational comment and it ends by making you rethink your now, your past and your future.

it's just about lunch time in my country... so if you are looking for something to accompany your bites, search for it no more and just hit play.

PS: loved it? the domino project just released this great book from the poem. get it.

A few days back, I shared with you a new AR assisted experience LEGO put out for kids and grownups to play along this holidays season, today I want you to explore a more of a group-oriented, public interactive experience.

Recently, National Geographic peered up with London studio Appshaker to create a new way for people to interact and discover content from the network's collection of amazing footage.

In order to do so, appshaker came out with a public AR experience that let thousands of people to interact with everything from a T-Rex to Dolphins swiming around you to even a playfull cheetah.

Take a look yourself in the video above. Look at how, both the people that step up to the markers and the people around the mall experience the display. It is in showcases like this that not only brands get something to show for but the society gets the chance to start seeing what the future is going to look like. It prepare themselves for what's around the corner and gives creatives new grounds to explore.

Immagine what would happen if you add a kinect camera into the mix, if you have smart enough movements into the characters that could let people interact with the animals like if they were there, imagine what if you could dress the people with new clothes and take them into a new journey.

Academics: get the ball going, take your research outside, it's time to take all of those experiences out of the lab and into the world!!

This morning Helguita sent me a link to the new Lego Life of George experience and got to say it made me smile and more than that it put me mind to fly.

This hybrid game combines the physical task of assembling legos with that of a virtual-checking using an Augmented Reality app for the iPhone.

Wit this app you can go against the clock with the models the app suggests, while you can also start building your own stages as well, saving them, sharing them and exploring new ones.

Now imagine if we could take this experience and apply it to more complex tasks, verification processes in real time and with the tools with have at hand today.

I think we are living in exciting times of innovation and as I noted yesterday on my Google Profile, it is in the exploration of this new experiences, the key eye to forward thinking and the inherent value for the aesthetics in today's toys that we are setting foundations for a creative society that will move the needle forward in very revolutionary ways in just a few years.

Been from a caribbean country I always wondered as a kid how did the iglus were made and if they really were used at all - or if maybe it was just something cartoons had invented... years later I came a long with Sue Harrison's Pre-historic Trilogy which took place in Alaska - and from where I borrowed the nick Samiq - and the intrigue grew more, as it reminded me of me childhood.

Now move the years forward to today and thankfully to the power of the interwebs and HD cam's I have to wonder no more... here is how you get to build one.

Enjoy!

PS. I know I could have find this way before but sometimes I just forget about my intrigues and then the answers alone find their way back to me thru me rss feed. that's good!

Art is form of exploration, of sailing off into the unknown alone, heading for those unmarked places on the map. If children are not permitted–not taught–to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world of adventure, of stories, of literature itself?

Because it's in the action of letting me mind flow that most of the great ideas have come from... it's in the disconnect from the virtual and the reconnect with the physical that you can in itself get the most of both and to strive in beauty, form and action.

This little excerpt from Manhood for Amateurs reminded me of me been a kid and painting, playing and running; climbing trees and just think in the hugeness of the world... now I realize how much I need that to start happening again.

I need to kick start my passions... and you? What are your passions?

PS. Thanks to Swiss-miss for finding it for me ;)