Yesterday, the first same-sex French wedding was arranged in the city of Montpellier following the passage of a law allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt children. Prior to the legalization of gay marriage in the country, non-profit organization Tous Unis Pour l’Egalité teamed up with Google and Ogilvy Paris to provide French same-sex couples with an opportunity to wed over the Internet, via Google+ Hangout.
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Google invites people from across the globe to «make it a bit more manageable and adventurous with Google’s mapping tools.» With a free two-week online course Mapping with Google users can leverage the power of Google Maps or/and Google Earth to maximize their user experience by getting more of the world’s most detailed and accurate mapping services.
Pantone, the world’s recognized color expert, is opening doors of PantoneLIVE, its cloud-based color service, to Procter & Gamble, which means that from now on, the company’s production teams across the globe will get an instant access to digital color palettes for designing, proofing and printing the packaging.
To complement its two-year activity, BMW Guggenheim Lab has released a comprehensive guide across the most prominent urban trends, which have been explored and discussed during its three past stops in NYC, Berlin and Mumbai. The global lab, focused around the life in a big city, has published 100 Urban Trends: A Glossary of Ideas from the BMW Guggenheim Lab for NYC and Mumbai, following the release of the Berlin edition in 2012.
Pinterest has introduced a new type of pins, the so-called Rich Pins, across three categories—consumer products, movies and cooking. These pins contain related information from the original sites, highlighting availability and real-time pricing for goods, cast members and ratings for movies, recipes, and more.