New York City with Little Kids

Vacations are not what they used to be. I spent the July 4^th weekend in New York City, my first trip there with kids in tow, and it really hit home for me: I’m a parent.

New York City with Little Kids

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Comment on Facebook Turns to A Little Solar For Its Data Center by Al Brown

Its just good PR, not good economic sense.

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CHART OF THE DAY: Facebook Has Little Effect On What You Buy Online (GOOG)

While Google is "super nervous" about the growth of Facebook, here's one data point to put the search company at ease for right now.

According to a Goldman Sachs survey, social sites have very little influence over online shopping decisions. Search engines, and recommendation engines have a much greater influence.

As long as Google has influence over shopping habits, it will continue to pull in big ad dollars. Advertisers tend to want to advertise where there's a chance a purchasing decision can be influenced.

However, in the not too distant future Facebook could become an e-commerce juggernaut with more influence over online shopping. If and when that happens, Google should be really worried.

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CHART OF THE DAY: Facebook Has Little Effect On What You Buy Online (GOOG)

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Path Raises $8.5 Million, Opens Up (A Little)

Path, the social photo-sharing service that limits sharing to your 50 closest friends and family members, has announced a new round of funding. It's also opening the service to allow sharing via e-mail, instead of requiring users to have the Path app on their iPhone.

The San Francisco startup raised $8.5 million from Kleiner Perkins and Index Ventures, both of which will contribute a new board member. It was founded by former Facebook Connect developer Dave Morin and Napster creator Shawn Fanning.

Users have shared more than 2 million pictures -- sorry, that's "moments" -- through the service, which launched about a year ago. Previously, both users needed the Path iPhone app to share a picture, but now the company will let users add friends simply by entering an email address, and these friends will receive pictures in their inboxes.

Path still requires you to enter a phone number to sign up, however, which kills it for me.

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Google Lat Long Blog: Getting from A to B just got a little easier

Over the past year, the Google Maps Directions team has been hard at work developing a variety of design improvements to make getting and following directions much easier.



It’s now simpler than ever to switch transport modes, change the time/date of your trip, get a high-level overview comparing different routes, and view details of a single trip at-a-glance.

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Gmail creator: "I have very little desire to work on e-mail again in the future. To me, there's a lot more interesti...

Gmail creator Paul Buchheit: "I have very little desire to work on e-mail again in the future. To me, there's a lot more interesting stuff out there."

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What A Little Paint Can Do for Brazil's Favelas

Dutch artist duo Haas&Hahn first worked together while filming a documentary for MTV about hip hop in the favelas (Brazilian slums) of Rio and São Paolo. They're still making their mark in Brazil, but this time they're not using video cameras, they're using paint. The "community-driven art interventions" of their Favela Painting Project are providing local youth the opportunity to learn a craft, earn money, and develop pride and responsibility in their home.

This spring the team completed the first phase of their epic "O Morro" project in the Santa Marta community of Rio (see photo above). The pictures are beautiful--community-created murals covering over 34 houses in swooping lines of red, green, pink, yellow and blue. It's like every color of Fruit Stripes bubble gum, except longer-lasting. Just as bright, their 2008 project in Villa Cruzeiro, was a gigantic traditional Japanese design laid out by master tattooist Rob Admiraal.

For color you can walk on, check out these photos of OAB's beautiful swerving beach boardwalk in Benidorm, Spain--what some describe as the Spanish version of Rio de Janeiro.

And for the latest news on the "O Morro" project, check out the Favela Painting Project Facebook page.

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Photo: Favela Painting Project

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Hawaii with Kids: Little Adventures on the Big Island

National Geographic Traveler columnist Christopher Elliott recently visited the Hawaii with his family. This is his first report.

There's a surprise waiting around every corner on Hawaii's big island.

Like the time we ran out of road. We were dizzy with jetlag and like most tourists from the mainland, a little confused.

"Dad, I'm hungry," my middle son, Iden, complained from the back of the minivan. 

Was it dinnertime? But the sun, high on the horizon, said: "morning."

Where were we? The map didn't make sense. We were driving north on Highway 270 to...somewhere? But then the world came into sharp focus: A small parking lot, a cliff, and a black-sand beach below, bordering a seemingly endless North Pacific Ocean.

We'd discovered Pololū Valley Lookout.

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