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  • Mobile Vein Identity

    We all know that userid’s and passwords are not good enough anymore. That’s why more and more companies move to two-factor authentication, using those little contact-less “calculators” that generate one-time password, or contact-ful solutions like smartcards, USB-tokens, etc or other concepts such as OpenID or Microsoft’s CardSpace (i still prefer the old name “InfoCard”). Only… Read more

  • Ted, Bill, Steve, Larry: The way it is

    From the Andy Kessler blog of 20 July 2009 with my choice of extracts and highlights… The 70s were a smog-filled haze. Upward mobility was a pipedream. Stock markets stagnated and all the moon-walking Space Age dreams of the 60s were shattered with layoffs and plant closings and Rust Belts and urban unrest. You were… Read more

  • 15 years and counting to 51

    Not that recent anymore: Morgan Stanley Research Europe published mid July 2009 a report on Media & Internet “How Teenagers Consume Media”. What’s cool is they asked a 15 year old summer work intern, Matthew Robson, to describe how he and his friends consume media. There is a lot to do about this report, as… Read more

  • Cluetrain

    Sometimes you hit a site and you’re blown away. Here is one like that: http://www.cluetrain.com It’s like finding your home. This thing exists for 10 years now. And nobody hinted me to hit. Never heard about it. It feels like having missed some cultural and existential dimension in my life. I feel so inspired by… Read more

  • Robonomics

    Really great post by Jamais Caisco on FastCompany blog. Very much in line with my last posts on massive manias, booms and busts. I have not added much here: just mixing some different sources. But some folks told me i am not that bad in mashing-up stuff 😉 Think you can’t be replaced by a… Read more

  • Innotribe starting blocks

    Cross-posted from: https://www.swiftcommunity.net/blogs/blogDetail.cfm?id=1547 Posting by my boss Kosta Peric: I’m just walking out of the Innovation team corner here at SWIFT. Only one topic on everybody’s mind – Innotribe@Sibos – and the atmosphere is the same as just before a big race at an athletic event: I guess the best description is "electric"… The event… Read more