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The future is the new present - insights of modern maps

The future is the new present. As recent as last week a friend and I were discussing an augmented reality application for marketing. This conversation took us to brainstorm about the potential of making items interactive inside Google Virtual Tours. Just imagine to zoom in Cyrus Co. Virtual Tour, hover your mouse over the football game table - or any other item - and have information…

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Added by Rafael Marxuach on October 24, 2012 at 3:00pm — 4 Comments

Shortcuts | Google Virtual Tours

We are constantly confronted with overloads of information and decisions to make. "You and I exist in an extraordinary complicated stimulus environment, easily the most rapidly moving and complex that has ever existed on this planet. To deal with it, we need shortcuts." *

Google Virtual Tours are truthful portraits of business properties, shortcuts to experience business…

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Added by Rafael Marxuach on October 16, 2012 at 4:00pm — 1 Comment

Posts you might have missed - Google Virtual Tours

The last couple months have been very busy, the demand for Google Virtual Tours is on the rise and we love it. During this time I have also taken time to post about the jobs we are working on and my insights about this novel marketing tool. These are the posts you might have…

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Added by Rafael Marxuach on October 9, 2012 at 3:39pm — 2 Comments

7 Virtues of Street View - Interior Virtual Tours

 

Street View Technology is a key differentiator between Google Maps and other services. This year Google expanded the service to include Interior Views. Interior Virtual Tours allow business owners to engage customers like never before. This new marketing tool is unique in the…

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Added by Rafael Marxuach on September 24, 2012 at 3:20pm — No Comments

Google Maps dominates the travel-related mobile usage. What does this means for businesses?

In 2010 tourists in New York city spent 31 billion dollars reaching a record of 49.7 million visitors. Today, Google Maps dominates a whopping 78% of the travel-related usage on mobile, the undisputed travel…

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Added by Rafael Marxuach on September 13, 2012 at 2:19pm — No Comments

The Value of Good Design - Google+ Local

Why pay attention to Google+ Local? If you are a business owner, manager or marketing guru, most probably know why Google+ Local is important. It’s the place for businesses to bring together professional…

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Added by Rafael Marxuach on September 5, 2012 at 11:30am — No Comments

Google+ Local - Pane E Vino

Photographer: Rafael Marxuach

How important is…

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Added by Rafael Marxuach on August 27, 2012 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Jean Claude Virtual Tour

Photographer: Rafael Marxuach . Copyright: Jean Claude

This week I'm featuring the…

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Added by Rafael Marxuach on August 18, 2012 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Hellenis Jewelry Virtual Tour

I got news! Create a unique visual experience for your business. A few weeks ago we started providing a new service - MyarchN Business Photos. A service under the Google Maps | Business Photos program to provide businesses in New York and the tri-state area with Virtual Tours. Following is the Virtual Tour we created for…

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Added by Rafael Marxuach on August 12, 2012 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Quirky - My last stop during SMWNYC 2012

Now that Social Media Week has ended I’ll take a moment to write about it. It was an exciting week in New York City, plenty of super cool panels, discussions, and awesome people. Running around the city and finding the events for which I registered, was fun. I had the chance to enter Norman Foster Hearst Tower, near Columbus Circle, the Bloomberg’s Building, comprising a whole block at 59 street between Lexington and 3rd Ave., and other more private but still spectacular interiors. All the…

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Added by Rafael Marxuach on February 21, 2012 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments

Reimagining Saivu - New Gateways to the Sjunkhatten National Park - Nordland, Norway.

 

 

 

About a month ago we received an email from Arild Eriksen, principal of Eriksen Skajaa Architects, telling us that they have recently won the competition for new gateways to the Sjunkhatten National Park in the northern part of Norway. Their proposal called “SAIVU” means portal to another world for the Sami people, indigenous from the Arctic region that stretches the countries of…

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Added by Rafael Marxuach on November 10, 2011 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Social Media - Same Game New Rules





"Social" is everywhere these days, what some people believed was a fad has become the norm. However it’s not an end on itself, but a new…
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Added by Rafael Marxuach on October 20, 2011 at 10:00pm — No Comments

New York Theater Competition - ArchMedium



Our friends from ArchMedium, a website dedicated to organize architectural competitions for students, recently send us the results of “The New York City Competition”. The project was defined as an urban theater campus intended to turn…
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Added by Rafael Marxuach on August 17, 2011 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Maruja Fuentes Fascinating Sensibility

It is with great sorrow that I'm writing this post. Yesterday I was told that Maruja Fuentes passed away. Puerto Rico and the International Design Community has lost a really bright star.





Maruja graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology and The Savannah College of Art and Design. She was also Director of the Industrial Design Department from The "Escuelas de Artes Plásticas" in…
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Added by Rafael Marxuach on June 30, 2010 at 4:30pm — 1 Comment

Ning & MyarchN Latest Developments

As some of you have heard, Ning our platform provider, has changed their business model to stop offering free sites. We think that their decision to focus 100% of their efforts to the networks that are paying will benefit our community. The MyarchN Network has been a premium (paying) community since the first day, and it will continue to be free for its members.
Nevertheless, the business decision…
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Added by Rafael Marxuach on May 8, 2010 at 10:30pm — 6 Comments

El Arquitecto se Reinventa

La revista ARQITEC estará celebrando su tercer aniversario el próximo jueves 28 de Enero jueves 4 de Febrero en La Escuela de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Puerto Rico. Este evento da inicio a la serie de charlas ARQITEC 411 con la presentación El Arquitecto se Reinventa, una nueva perspectiva hacia la profesión arquitectónica.



Para está charla estaré… Continue

Added by Rafael Marxuach on January 20, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments

“Empowered, Disempowered: Puerto Rico Poor Communities Strive to Survive”



For over a century, communities alongside the San Juan waterway have survived despite sub-human conditions and government neglect. On the fringe of Puerto Rico’s banking district, just minutes from premium tourist and residential areas, eight communities (about 27,000 residents) along the Caño Martín Peña struggle to wrap their minds around… Continue

Added by Rafael Marxuach on June 22, 2009 at 7:30pm — 6 Comments

Research & Social Bookmarking - Diigo

Bookmarking is a powerful way to keep the important things you find at the internet at hand and organized. On the blog post Bookmarks, Clouds and Words I pointed out that I was giving a try to Qitera, that didn't last long, it was more of a research tool and a social bookmarking service what I was looking for. I'm giving a full try to Diigo service, which recently… Continue

Added by Rafael Marxuach on March 13, 2009 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Mind Mapping - Beyond the Bubble Diagram

I learned in school about the importance of a clear bubble diagram in the process of conceptualizing my designs. The "Relationship Diagram" or "Bubble Diagram" is a very simple drawing that consists of roughly drawn bubbles (representing spaces) connected by solid lines, broken lines or wavy lines to specify the type of relationship between the spaces.

Beyond the bubble diagrams for our projects at the office, organizing all kind of thoughts in a sort of visual manner has always been my… Continue

Added by Rafael Marxuach on February 20, 2009 at 10:30pm — 1 Comment

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