Small Cities Feed the Knowledge Economy | Wired.com
It’s only the 42nd-largest city in the US, but over the past two decades, Omaha has been transformed into one of the Midwest’s most vibrant cultural hubs. Here’s how the rebirth happened, starting in the ’90s.
Best Small Cities to Live, According to CNNMoney & Gowalla
We wrote before of “location as platform.” How much more rich can location-based apps make the mobile experience? CNNMoney and Gowalla are hoping, much. They’ve partnered to make Money’s yearly Best Places to Live list into a dynamic experience. Now, when Gowalla users check into a venue within a 25-mile radius of the list of Top 25 Best Places to Live, they will receive a notification. The Gowalla Best Places page features curated trips in a given area. When users complete one of these trips, by visiting all of the listed spots, they can add the Best Places Stamp to their Gowalla Passport. The top 10 places on this years list?
1. Eden Prairie, MN
2. Columbia/Ellicott City, MD
3. Newton, MA
4. Bellevue, WA
5. McKinney, TX
6. Fort Collins, CO
7. Overland Park, KS
8. Fishers, IN
9. Ames, IA
10. Rogers, AR
Team by team, market by market, the Corporate Service Corps is changing the way IBM does business. The next phase of the project focuses on IBM executives who are placed into small cities, such explains that the chosen cities need to get smarter in ways similar to smarter cities in other areas. But many of these small cities have unique challenges that extend the IBM Smarter Cities concept. (via IBM – Corporate Service Corps – Smarter Healthcare US - United States)
