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  • Energy from Passionate Creatives

    Fantastic blog by Hutch Carpenter about The Passionate Creatives. His blog is always quality. Always new content. Feeling deeply the pulse of the Enterprise 2.0 wave. A lot in Hutch’s blog post reminded me about the book – The Cultural Creatives – How 50 million people are changing the world. By Paul H. Ray &… Read more

  • Google and Finance 2.0

    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.… Read more

  • 70,000 Feet

    Via Nova Spivacks Twitter account: “See this video of flight in U2 to 70,000 feet. I went to nearly 90,000 in 1999. This gives a good feel for it. http://bit.ly/14WdGJ” Space flights will be quite ordinary in 2025. That’s a little more than 15 years from now. I may still live then. For our think… Read more

  • Stunning Human Face animation

    http://www.ted.com At TEDxUSC, computer graphics trailblazer Paul Debevec explains the scene-stealing technology behind Digital Emily, a digitally constructed human face so realistic it stands up to multiple takes. Read more

  • Wikipedia for Data

    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… Read more

  • New Money and Payments

    The last couple of days there have been several blogs reporting on new types of money and payments. First there was the great interview of Steve Boyd with Jamais Cascio. Some highlights of the highlights: You have to get a critical mass of people to agree in a new fantasy. Groups with shared purposes could… Read more