The Life-Sized City Blog

Googleised Facebook bike in Dublin - courtesy of billyvandenende on Instagram The Social Media Wars are now using bicycles as a battlefield. Bear Bicycles is a small company in Dublin selling Dutch bikes to the Irish market. My friend Philip sent me the above photo of one of their bicycles. He explains: " For a cycling campaign, we have created a 'Facebook' bike - together with local cycling advocacy groups. The goal: to get people out of their cars and on their bikes, by showing how cycling is a social thing and how it positively impacts people's lives. " You can see the Facebook bike on Bear Bicycles... uh... Facebook page , as above. Dublin is home to both Google's and Facebook's European headquarters. Battlefield Internet, if you will. Yesterday, one of Philip's colleagues inadvertently parked the Facebook bike near a metro station close to the Google office. When he got back, the Facebook bike had been Googlised. The metaphor of the ...

Google launched their Street View service in Denmark a couple of days ago and there was one photo they enjoyed so much that they leaked it to the press in conjunction with the launch. The Street View van caught a cyclist taking a tumble outside of Vestergade 12 in the centre of the city. Shockingly, he wasn't wearing protective gear on his hands or arms. :-) " It's actually a funny story ", explained the head of Google's Danish office, Peter Friis to DR News . " He was riding along when he spotted the Street View car and he wanted to take a photo with his mobile phone and that's when he toppled over. " He explained that the man on the bicycle is a friend of one of the employees at Google Denmark and that he called his friend afterwards to tell him he was in the photo. " The man himself thinks it's a funny photo ", said Peter Friis. According to Friis it's pure coincedence that the episode was captured on camera. He stresses that t...