Something funny to close 2009 and to start 2010. Comes from the Geek & Poke site. Enjoy and Happy New Year !
Archive for December, 2009
Geek intro to 2010
Posted in Uncategorized on December 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Stunning satellite images of Earth
Posted in Enjoy on December 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Here is the Delta Region in the Netherlands. Many other very cool satellite images at WebdesignerDepot Enjoy
Sean Park’s Sixth Paradigm
Posted in Banks, Innotribe, Innovation, Semantic Web, Think Tank, WebTrends, Worldviews on December 30, 2009 | 8 Comments »
As preparation of 2010, i very strongly recommend to get familiar with Sean Park’s The Sixth Paradigm post of 28 Dec 2009. I am a big fan of Sean and his site the Park Paradigm. He was the guy who made the famous AmazonBay2015 video. That was 2006. Since a couple of days the video [...]
Zemanta – Part 2 – The API
Posted in Enjoy, Semantic Web, Vizualizations on December 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My previous post on Zemanta got quite some traction I even got a comment from Jim Hirshfield, VP of Biz Dev at Zemanta. He sent me a link to a demo of their API. Here is what he sent me: Peter – What a great write up on Zemanta. Thanks. If you’re interested in the [...]
Avatar
Posted in 3D, Avatar, Enjoy, global brain, Robots, Singularity, Worldviews on December 28, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Went to see Avatar this afternoon. Here is the link to the official website, which is an experience on itself: put the audio ON please. Have also a look at the Wikipedia site about the film. And i was lucky to see it in 3D. What an experience! First of all, it was quite some [...]
HR and Innovation
Posted in Books, HR, Innotribe, Innovation, Leading by Being, Personal Values, Think Tank, Worldviews on December 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
In my previous blog “Brand, Workforce and Innovation”, i started making a case for a leadership role for HR in Innovation. I wrote: I’d love to see more HR in a true leadership role. Leadership as opposite to management in its narrow definition of executing a course set out by somebody else. See also below [...]
Need for a new currency based on abundancy
Posted in Banks, Corporate Values, Crowdsourcing, Leading by Being, Money, Personal Values, Robots, Think Tank, Transhumanism, Worldviews on December 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Thanks to my subscription to Fredzimmy’s blog, I found this wonderful blog from Esko Kilpi. I really recommend you to explore this site from A to Z. Look at the wonderful slidedeck on Slideshare Have a look at the Flickr photos Have a look at the Bookmarks MIT Media Lab Human Dynamics Group, Howard Rheingold [...]
Education, Elites and Bologna
Posted in Education, Generation-M, global brain, Think Tank, Transhumanism, Worldviews on December 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was watching this morning a television program with Christine Van Den Wyngaert. The program was in essence about her views and role in the Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, but mu attention was triggered by something she said in the introductory part of the interview. She was referring to the dramatic decrease of [...]
Zemanta and the Semantic Web
Posted in Cloud, global brain, Mash-ups, Robots, Semantic Web, Think Tank, WebTrends on December 27, 2009 | 13 Comments »
If you want to have an idea what Semantic Web can mean for you and your business, have a look at www.zemanta.com. It comes as a Google Chrome Extension, or a Firefox extension, or a IE Plug-in or Safari Bookmarklet. I tested the Google Chrome extension on my PC. In this case a Mini-HP [...]
Cloud Security and other Cloudy observations
Posted in Cloud, Semantic Web, Think Tank, Virtual world, WebTrends on December 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Another great article on Technology Review MIT, this time about cloud computing. Together with the 2 documents i posted earlier today on innotribe.com this should give the average IT literate reader a good overview of where we stand end 2009/begin 2010. The clientele for Amazon’s cloud services now includes the New York Times and Pfizer. [...]
