Facebook Couples, Beckham Leaving Galaxy, Zoe Saldana’s Next Role
On today’s Brief Chloe dumps on Facebook Couple pages, says goodbye to David Beckham and delves into the controversy surrounding the Nina Simone biopic! First up, if you’re sick and tired of people broadcasting all the mundane details of their relationship on Facebook, you will not be a fan of the social network’s latest feature. It’s called Relationship pages and this creepy digital scrapbook compiles shared posts, photos, mutual likes and friends into its own page. And as you’d expect, it’s facing quite a backlash from angry single people as well as couples who aren’t crazy about Facebook automatically creating these Frankenstein profiles. The real question is whether Facebook is crossing the line by automatically melding the profiles of two people in a relationship into a couples page for the whole world to see. The site’s courted controversy many times over its privacy settings and this new feature looks to be the latest “thanks-but-no-thanks” offering. What do you guys think? Are you into Couples pages? bit.ly Next up, soccer legend David Beckham has announced that he will be leaving his Los Angeles Galaxy teammates for a potential move to Australia’s A-league. The 37-year old all-star claims that the MLS Cup championship match against Houston on December 1st will be his last game with the Galaxy. While Beckham’s managers have been denying a move to the Outback, several Aussie teams have expressed interest in Beckham with some already making formal offers. Beckham …
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In 2010, we met Graham Hill- the founder of treehugger.com and a serial entrepreneur. He had just bought two tiny apartments in a century-old tenement building in Soho and he had plans to turn them into laboratories, and showcases, for tiny living. He’d spent most of the past year living in tiny spaces- “a tiny trailer, a tent, and then a boat” and he was convinced others would love it as much if small spaces could be designed right. He wanted a tiny space that didn’t sacrifice function, but instead that would expand to provide a wish list including dinner parties for 12, accommodations for 2 overnight guests, a home office and a home theater with digital projector. Not wanting to limit himself to local architects, he crowdsourced the design as a competition and received 300 entries from all over the world. Two Romanian architecture students won with their design “One Size Fits All”. Completed in 2012, his LifeEdited apartment doesn’t resemble the cramped space we saw in 2010. Today the 420-square-foot space can be expanded to include the functionality of 1100 square feet: walls, drawers and beds move and unfold to create 6 rooms: living room, dining room, office, guest office, master bedroom and guest bedroom. If you include the kitchen and the bathroom which morphs into a phone booth or meditation room, the apartment includes 10 total rooms. More info on original story: faircompanies.com LifeEdited: www.lifeedited.com
