I am restless these days. Exploring my limits, physically and mentally, and calibrating and navigating what I was meant to be: an architect, painter, scripter, dramaturge, producer? I am so hungry to create those true memorable experiences, with artistic, architectural, and ethical rightness and integrity. Experiences those feel right from the very first second to [...]
Archive for the ‘Mash-ups’ Category
Exploring the Limits
Posted in Books, Corporate Values, Innotribe, Innovation, Leading by Being, Mash-ups, Personal Values, Techonomy, Transhumanism, Worldviews on April 29, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Digital Identity Weavers
Posted in global brain, Identity, Leading by Being, Mash-ups, Personal Values, Privacy, Semantic Web, Virtual world, WebTrends on February 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I have a job where i regularly meet fascinating people. I recently had the opportunity to chat with Gary Thompson from CLOUD, Inc. CLOUD Inc. is the Consortium for Local Ownership and Use of Data, a non-profit organization that has filed for 501(c)(6) status with the IRS and is open to people, companies, and other [...]
SIRI: your personal assistant in the cloud
Posted in Cloud, global brain, Innovation, Mash-ups, Semantic Web, Transhumanism, User Interface, WebTrends on February 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Found via Scobleizer. Watch the video till the very end. In the last 4 minutes or so there is a demo. In essence its a free iPhone app with a fantastic voice recognition engine, that is orchestrating API’s in the cloud. Normal – not geek – people ask me regularly: “But Peter, what do you [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Wikipedia for Data
Posted in Banks, Cloud, global brain, Mash-ups, Semantic Web, WebTrends on October 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My colleague Mariela popped into my office the other day: “Peter, when we talk cloud computing we should highlight something fundamental: it’s about making DATA more accessible/interoperable, more than making applications interoperable”. In essence, she saw that Cloud computing is in essence about OPEN DATA Mariela is right on. This is btw one of the [...]
Augmented Reality is Real Now
Posted in Android, Augmented Reality, Mash-ups, Mobile, User Interface, Virtual world on October 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The big news this week is that Layar’s iPhone App is approved and available. From now on we call it the “Reality Browser” See also sub-line “Available for Android”. I clicked on the Android Marketplace and this is what i got. Also have a look at the 162 Layers that are already available. Yes, you [...]
Google Wave for Dummies
Posted in Google Wave, Mash-ups, Think Tank, WebTrends on October 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Apparently this video gets 1 billion hits per day ? Hardly can believe that. 1 billion is big number. Anyway, let me add 10-20 additional hits by linking to it from my blog This animation is cute, but does not add much to the content that was part of the May2009 Google IO Launch event. [...]
State of the Web Sep 2009
Posted in Banks, global brain, Mash-ups, Semantic Web, Think Tank, WebTrends on September 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Over the last month there was an interesting series of articles on Read Write Web about the Top-5 trends on the web. They now come all together here. There is also a presentation on slideshare and you can download the whole thing also in PowerPoint. ReadWriteWeb’s Top 5 Web Trends in 2009 View more presentations [...]
Innotribe @ Sibos: preparing for next year
Posted in Cloud, Crowdsourcing, Innotribe, Mash-ups on September 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Oh boy, what a fantastic week this was ! More than 40 speakers, 7 keynotes, 15 R&D sessions, 3 face to face discussions, and a great opening and closing session. We did some cool “order from chaos” things: Peter Hinssen has an AHA ! moment on his flight to Hong-Kong, and produced a brand new [...]
