All over the tech websites last week: Google previewing their Chrome OS and releasing it’s code to the open source community. Planning, pre-viewing and releasing an OS is a big thing. Especially if everybody is looking at you as the provider of THE cloud OS. It stroke me that some of the comments are so [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Google Chrome: who is right and who is wrong?
Posted in Android, Cloud, Desktop, Generation-M, Think Tank, WebTrends on November 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Innovation at the Core and beyond the core
Posted in Banks, Innotribe, Leading by Being, Think Tank on November 21, 2009 | 7 Comments »
If you consider yourself as an innovator, I guess you all want to create some Edison effect. So that when you launch your innovative solution, you can refer to the old days as “how could we ever live like that ?” The fundamental premise of this blog post is that organizations need a two-speed strategy [...]
Web Squared for advanced
Posted in Enjoy, global brain, Leading by Being, Singularity, Transhumanism, Uncategorized, WebTrends on November 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Very cool presentation on the impact of the web on the world. Web Wide World revisited so to speak. Enjoy. 09 Ci Civilization View more documents from gloriagdiago.
Mandelbrot 3D Fractals
Posted in Enjoy, Fun, Singularity on November 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Enjoy at Real 3D Mandelbulb.
Web Wide World
Posted in Corporate Values, Generation-M, Leading by Being, Personal Values, Semantic Web, Singularity, Think Tank, Transhumanism on November 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“The web is transforming society” “Web Squared: how the web transforms the world” “Web Wide World” transforming “World Wide Web” Several very interesting publications and postings over the last couple of weeks, all confirming that something very profound is happening with our core systems, our core values, and how the collective intelligence of the [...]
Cloud Computing and Marketplace are just happening
Posted in Banks, Cloud, Innotribe on November 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Three interesting news items that Cloud computing and marketplace are just happening. Nobody else than Salesforce – a 10-year old company running a 10B+ $ cloud business, with 60,000 customers and 1,5M users (talking about reach…) – has as helped to launch FinancialForce.com , a new company that offers financial software. The new startup [...]
Traveling on Light
Posted in Enjoy, Leading by Being, Personal Values, Think Tank on November 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Great article in NYT. You can find full article here. The article is so inspiring. Anything is possible when you let yourself inspire by your dreams. The next break came when Dr. Friedman was talking about the LightSail to a group of potential donors. A man — “a very modest dear person,” in Ms. Druyan’s [...]
Natural Language Interface Microsoft Research
Posted in Desktop, Think Tank, User Interface, xstof on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
With thx to xstof for spotting this one. Looks like i cannot embed the video, so please go here or click the picture below. It turns out 2019 is getting closer every day. At the moment, Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officerCraig Mundie is doing the rounds at a number of prestigious colleges in the [...]
No Belgian University in WW Top-100
Posted in Corporate Values, Generation-M, Leading by Being, Personal Values, Think Tank, Transhumanism on November 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Academic Ranking of World Universities just got published. Not a single Belgian University in the Top-100. Leuven comes in at 102 and Ghent at 106. I found this resource via Eric Drexler’s blog, which was focusing on Asian Universities. The “Academic Ranking of World Universities” (ARWU) is widely regarded as the best objective, international [...]
Marketplace: a commodity
Posted in Banks, Cloud, Innotribe, Mash-ups, WebTrends on November 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Here is force.com from Salesforce. As far as i am concerned, the way a marketplace should look like. Already more than 800 apps available, more than 70 of them are financial apps. Also have a look at the US Government marketplace. Everything’s up there. With pricing info, liability clauses, shopping basket, etc Some believe building [...]
