Influx

DJ Frank is a New York-based DJ and like any good DJ, he is on a constant quest to discover new sounds. The difference is that he's not content with digging in old record stores and flea markets in the US, instead he travels to West Africa to find records, before they get destroyed. This new...

I was fortunate enough to attend Jan Chipchase's Street Hacks (avail for download from his site) presentation at Adaptive Path the other night. He's Nokia's resident field researcher/ethnographer. His function is to help Nokia better understand how people use mobile phone and identify potential...

RED, the brand designed and built to raise money for Africa, has been keeping a low profile in the last few months that was until yesterday.As we all know, money talks.In a single day, RED raised an incredible $42.6 million to add to the $50 million raised to date through its efforts with...

A few months ago, Influx looked at RED, worried that it might be in danger of getting drowned by the growing attention being placed on the environment. We wondered if people were giving up on Africa and it was becoming a forgotten story.We wondered if the interest and awareness for RED that we saw...