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  • Compass Summit: can we win the race?

    Last week, I attended Compass Summit.  After Contact Summit in NYC the weekend before, the contrast could not be bigger. Whereas Contact Summit was held in a worn-out synagogue, Compass was held in a 5 star luxury resort close to LA. Also the audience was fundamentally different: in NY we saw a group of activists… Read more

  • Metacurrency Collabathon: a wealth system

    After Sibos, Q4 is usually the period of the year when I try to re-boot, to refresh my sources, to be a sponge and take-in new knowledge. It’s when I start painting for the next year. When the themes and trends for next year start emerging. I wanted to get a much better feel for… Read more

  • Contactcon Conference: the cry for freedom

    I am still digesting the Contact Summit, a conference with the tagline “the evolution will be social”. The conference was announced as: The net is more than a marketing platform. Connect with the people who are building what comes next, and celebrate the potential of networking to transform commerce, learning, and society. The event was… Read more

  • My Uncle Roger

    Last week, my Uncle Roger passed away in a car accident. He was 82. I will always remember Uncle Roger for go-carts. He made them himself. When he was young and just married, he was working in a big metal factory. But he got bored by factory life and rules, and decided to start up… Read more

  • New Value Movement

    At Innotribe in Toronto, we had a fantastic group of speakers. We call them “igniters”. It was energizing and inspiring to see how some of them were each other’s fans on-line, some just met for the first time face-to-face at Sibos. Many of the discussions between speakers were definitely as interesting as the public appearances they made… Read more

  • Digital Asset Grid: Let’s meet at the SWIFT Dance Hall

    This post is a fifth in a series on personal digital identity. Part-1 “The unpolished diamond was published here in August 2010 and Part-2 ‘The Digital Identity Tuner” was published here in September 2010. Part-3 “Personal Data Something” was published here in December 2010. And part-4 “Austin-Munich-Toronto” was published in February 2011 here. Drawing by Hugh MacLeod (@gapingvoid) during the Innotribe… Read more