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- Q: What makes you different from all the other anti-spyware efforts?
- A: Obviously, lots of other people and companies are working in this space. That is a good thing. We feel we're different for a number of reasons. Unlike many of the companies working in the space, our roots are in organizations (.orgs and .edus) with independent traditions, so we won't be afraid to call out badware creators of any size. We're not going to hand down solutions from on high - we want to work with both experts and the broader internet community to define and understand the problem. We'll work with that same community to create solutions that will protect the internet in the long term. Finally, since part of our goal is to become a central clearinghouse for data, we view ourselves as a complement to the best other efforts in the field. We believe that our unique take will act as a complement, as we all share data to better attack the same end goal.
There's no IKEA store in India, but some of its wealthier citizens have rooms full of handcrafted imitations of the images found in the ubiquitous IKEA catalog.When Ms. Bose built her Indian house 10 years ago, she cut pictures from an IKEA catalog and brought them to a carpenter, who furnished her entire two-bedroom bungalow with pieces modeled after them.King-size beds provide extra storage with built-in drawers. A wall-sized wardrobe has closets, shelves, shoe racks, and a dressing table. A desk, bookshelves, tables, and other pieces of furniture were made with plywood and painted in Bose's favorite colors - red and black. "The design is IKEA, but this is all pure wood," she says, referring to IKEA's use of particle board.
The price was right - about $2,250 for everything. That would be an unimaginable cost for the 80 percent of Indians who live on $2 a day, but it's a fraction of what IKEA would sell all that furniture for in the West (even with its bargain prices), and it's affordable for most middle-class Indians.
IKEA has not taken action against the furniture pirates and have no plans for building an Indian IKEA in the near future.
Direct commercial activity will halt completely in primary schools "unless otherwise requested by school authorities"
Be sure to check out the current issue of How magazine, for the article "Good Company". It focuses on 4 socially conscious design firms:
Ever seen the beauty in the sprawl we all live in? My friend Jason Brockert paints a strange mixture of love, beauty and creepiness that exists in the our sprawl driven environment.
Hewlett-Packard offers the HP ScanJet 4070 Photosmart Scanner: no glue, no paint, and no embedded metal fasteners, and 100% post consumer recycled plastic.
