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  • No Belgian University in WW Top-100

    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… Read more

  • Marketplace: a commodity

    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… Read more

  • The Algorithmic Principle Behind Curiosity and Creativity

    One of the very best presentations at last month’s Singularity Summit. And it comes from a European 😉 Lots of inspirarational slides and ideas, and – as a bonus – Jürgen is quite funny as well when presenting. Jürgen Schmidhuber at Singularity Summit 2009 – Compression Progress: The Algorithmic Principle Behind Curiosity and Creativity from… Read more

  • The Future by Chris Anderson

      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.… Read more

  • Google Wave integrations for the Enterprise

    Interesting blog straight from the Enterprise 2.0 Conference taking place this week in San Francisco. Wish i was there Integrations by SAP, Thoughtworks, and Novell. Boy, and knowing there are still people who don’t believe Wave is going to happen big time. Watch till the end, where there is an BPEL export of the business… Read more

  • Failure is NOT an option (you don’t know until you try)

    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… Read more