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  • 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

  • Re-Inventing Wall Street: Finance 2.0

    When Umair Hague posts something on his blog, i always take some extra quality time to read. Umair Haque is Director of the Havas Media Lab, a new kind of strategic advisor that helps investors, entrepreneurs, and firms experiment with, craft, and drive radical management, business model, and strategic innovation. Always sharp, and always in… Read more

  • Augmented Reality is Real Now

    The big news this week is that Layar’s iPhone App is approved and available. From now on we call it the “Reality Browser” See also sub-line “Available for Android”. I clicked on the Android Marketplace and this is what i got. Also have a look at the 162 Layers that are already available. Yes, you… Read more

  • Droid vs. iPhone

    The blogs are full these days of Android phones coming to the market. Especially on the Verizon-Motorola-Android phone that is being launches as we speak. I just picked one of the articles: the one from Michael Arrington on TechMeme. +++Update: very complete update by Scobleizer on 8 Nov 2009. From a US perspective probably the… Read more

  • Future of shopping by Cisco

    Life is full of synchronicities. This week we had a meeting with the Innovation team of Cisco to learn from each other how we stimulate innovation in our organizations and ecosystems. I was surprised how much Cisco is “looking” more and more like Microsoft. Not from product side, but from the way on how they… Read more