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 diverging. Some [...]
Archive for the ‘Think Tank’ Category
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 | 2 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 Wide World
Posted in Corporate Values, Generation-M, Leading by Being, Personal Values, Semantic Web, Singularity, Think Tank, Transhumanism on November 14, 2009 | Leave a 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 web [...]
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 words [...]
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 measure of [...]
The Future by Chris Anderson
Posted in Cloud, Corporate Values, Leading by Being, Think Tank, WebTrends on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Big Think Interview with Chris Anderson
CHRIS ANDERSON
Editor-in-Chief, Wired
A conversation with the Editor-in-Chief of Wired Magazine and author of The Long Tail and Free: The Future of a Radical Price.
October 29, 2009 | In Business & Economics, Science & Tech, Media & Internet
You can see the 36 min video here.
The full transcript is also available. [...]
Failure is NOT an option (you don’t know until you try)
Posted in Banks, Corporate Values, Innotribe, Leading by Being, Think Tank on November 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »
A couple of weeks ago, i was attending the Web 2.0 Summit. Actually, it is the Web² Summit (read as Web Squared).
If you want to stay up-to-date a little bit, a must read is the Web Squared Whitepaper. You can read it online here or download it here.
One morning, i was taking the elevator to [...]
Google and Finance 2.0
Posted in Banks, Corporate Values, Generation-M, Google Wave, Innotribe, Leading by Being, Think Tank on November 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Umair Haque has written an Open Letter to Google titled “Can Google take on Wall Street – and Win ?”
It starts with: “Dear Google,…”
and goes on with:
Every day, you handle more searches than the NYSE handles trades — and that difference, I’m guessing, is about to hit an order of magnitude more. Every day, [...]
