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Blogspotting

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Businessweek started a blog two weeks ago: Blogspotting. Blogspotting is “where the worlds of business, media and blogs collide”, and during the two first weeks they have been blogging about blogging. From their latest entry:

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It was almost embarrassing. At the BDI conference on blogging that’s going on a couple blocks from here, someone asked if blogs were a big deal outside the U.S. The panelists barely seemed to know. PubSub founder Bob Wyman had to grab the mike and set the record straight.

He said that there were more bloggers in Korea, China and Japan combined than in the rest of the world

That is truly interesting, considering both the different political environments and current/historical relationship towards each other that those countries have. Perhaps the best and most powerful way to increase long-term stability and security in the area would be to make a serious upgrade to Altavista’s Babelfish, so that people from those countries could read each others blogs and discuss. Or am i being naïve? ;)

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HOT Web 2.0 start-ups

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on March 14, 2007
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Web 2.0

Everyday new web 2.0 start-ups are shooting out of the ground in the already overcrowded web 2.0 sphere. However, there are still some companies that stand out from the average! Business 2.0 has listed the twenty-five startups that you have to watch! Too bad that the list is too Americanised in my opinion. Hardly no startup from Europe or Asia is mentioned.

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Tech Trends & Companies in 2007

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on January 30, 2007
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Brainstorming Walls
Yesterday BusinessWeek published eight top tech trends to follow in 2007. One of them the “touch wall” which was first introduced to the wide public in 2002 with the movie “Minority Report”. I really look forward to work with it!

In addition BusinessWeek also listed the tech companies to watch in 2007. It includes one Chinese company, two European companies and five American companies. My favourite company on the list the London based Last.FM. It gives you the opportunity to discover new music!

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Young entrepreneurs who will rock the world in 2007 and beyond

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on December 24, 2006
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Red Herring - a leading innovation, technology, and business magazine - is featuring a special report on 25 young entrepreneurs between the age of 17 and 35 who will rock the world in 2007 and beyond.

You can read about Elizabeth Holmes, who dropped out of Stanford University at age 19 and launched a start-up that developed a monitoring system for tracking a person’s blood status remotely. And then there is Weina Scott, a 17-year-old CEO who already has three successful start-ups under her belt. Furthermore, in terms of companies, seven occupied the Internet space; four companies in software, two each in biotech, venture capital, and wireless and there were one each in the solar, medical device, nanotech, and telecom segments.

In short, a must read during Christmas when you’re interested in entrepreneurship and innovative technologies that will shape various industries the forthcoming years.

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Samsung on greatness in the digital era

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on October 22, 2006
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Samsung Fall 2006

The fall edition of Samsung’s DigitAll magazine explores greatness in the digital era.

To understand the topic better, Greg Lindsay portrays five business leaders of companies like Ingenio, Zopa, Honest Tea, Cleantech and Firefox.

Business writer Nicholas G. Carr (blog) meanwhile explores the topic conceptually, and investigates the claim that in the Age of the Internet, greatness in business is no longer “an expression of the aptitudes of individual persons or organisations, but a consequence of the connections between them”. Carr claims there is a “fundamental flaw in the thinking of those who believe greatness emerges naturally from the interconnections of the crowd or network”, the so-called “wisdom of the crowd”.

Also nice is a story by Observer architecture critic Deyan Sudjic on how designer Ross Lovegrove “turns technology into the experience of sense”.

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Social networking the mobile way

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on August 9, 2006
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Vodafone has just published the 16th issue of Receiver, its online magazine on the future of communication technologies.

The current edition is all about social networking the mobile way: clubbing, seeing your favourite band, sharing memories of a night out or playfully exploring the city, getting to know and experiencing, even creating, music.

“How can mobile add to all these? And how does it affect how we get our friends together for joint action? Does it trigger emergent behaviour? Or is it the ideal means to pull it all together?”

The eight articles deal with social coordination in urban environments, “big games”, social planning, and much more.

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A Great Digital Identity presentation

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on July 18, 2006
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Identity 2.0
Check out this solid presentation on Identity 2.0 by Dick Hardt, Founder & CEO of Sxip Identity, which is similar to the presentation style of Larry Lessig.

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Imagination @ work

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on July 8, 2006
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Who knew that good old GE was into developing Web2.0 applications? Well, I suspect they’re not, but they have created this awesome online collaboration tool. You can use it with others to work on designs, and it is incredibly nifty, my favourite feature being the chat function that goes with it. This means you can chat at the same time you’re creating something on the workscreen. Try it out, preferably with a friend so you can see the full thing in action. Doodling… I love it! Now, if they only add functionality so you can import images, that would make this a supertool.

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Serendipity so late at night

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on June 7, 2006
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Random thought I had just now (as I finished studying for today, got one down but still three exams to go this week) honestly, I don’t know why, has this to do with my brain overload at the moment?

With all this content nowadays you can pull in, and can tailor to your own needs, does that give us a lack of serendipity? You know, you pick up a magazine, flick through it, and all of a sudden you find an article that is talking about exactly your problem. But you weren’t actively looking for it. Serendipity. You run into a person in the hallway, who then turns out to know someone that needs an intern and you turn out to get the job. Serendipity. Are we losing it? With increased efficiency, with more and more pull models of getting content, are we losing our capacity for letting serendipity happen? If you just read the RSS feeds that you subscribe to, are you losing out on accidentally finding information you could use? Or is accidental finding of information out of date anyway?

Businessweek has put together a special report on Web2.0 for CEO’s. So if you’re wondering what all the 2.0 hoo-ha is, this is the place to go (a part I really liked was the interview with a VC, you can find it here).

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Economist’s Innovator Awards

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on December 21, 2005
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Economist’s annual prizes recognise successful innovators in seven categories. The Economist recognises these talented people through our annual Innovation Awards, presented in seven fields: bioscience, computing and communications, energy and the environment, social and economic innovation, business-process innovation, consumer products, and a special “no boundaries” category. The awards were presented at a ceremony in London on November 14th by Bill Emmott, editor-in-chief of The Economist. And the winners were:

  • Herbert Boyer, co-founder and director of Genentech, and Stanley Cohen, professor of genetics and medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine, for developing recombinant DNA technology.
  • Computing and communications: Sergey Brin and Larry Page, co-founders of Google for the commercialisation of search technology.
  • Energy and the environment: Stanford Ovshinsky, president and chief scientist and technologist, Energy Conversion Devices, for developing the nickel-metal-hydride battery.
  • Social and economic innovation: Victoria Hale, chairman and chief executive, Institute for OneWorld Health, for her work promoting the development of pharmaceuticals for the developing world.
  • Business-process innovation: Alpheus Bingham, chairman, InnoCentive, for his work developing a web-based problem-solving community.
  • Consumer product: the iPod team at Apple for the development of the iPod digital-music player.
  • No boundaries: Fujio Masuoka, professor, Tohoku University for the invention of flash memory.
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