Where is the Puck?

Remember recommendation / discovery engines described earlier on this blog? Well, here is another alternative to the world of Google and search engines: it is called a computational knowledge engine. www.wolframalpha.com is designed for you to ask it a question and get a factually correct answer, along with a visual interpretation of that answer. Alpha [...]

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Nice article about Transparent Innovation on Trendhunter.com. From invisible phones, see-through soccer balls and hi-tech fridges.. it looks like “the aesthetic of transparency is transporting itself to homes, gadgets and fashion”. Read the article here: http://www.trendhunter.com/tv/transparent-innovation

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Google has just launched the new tool (for invited only): Google Wave. I will try to describe it in two words only: HOSTED CONVERSATION. People from Google believe that Google Wave will present a major breaktrough in the way we communicate. What is Google Wave? Google Wave is “an online communication and collaboration tool that [...]

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It looks like the 3D technology is going to take off in 2010 and beyond… Most major electronics manufacturers are betting on 3D as the next big thing. “We see 3D as a pillar of our strategy,” said Hiroshi Yoshioka, a senior Sony executive. While Sony is planning 3D games, Panasonic is announcing plasma televisions [...]

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- Cloud Computing – Advanced Analytics – Client Computing – IT for Green – Reshaping the Data Center – Social Computing – Security – Activity Monitoring – Flash Memory – Virtualization for Availability – Mobile Applications Click here to read more on Gartner’s website

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At the annual Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference last month in Pasadena, technology and media executives spoke of new must-have products and services… One of the new trends: more and more companies embracing the social media. Social networks like Twitter or Facebook enable instant feedback, collaboration, discovery and engagement so important for the group work. However, [...]

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Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the World Wide Web twenty years ago, is now reinventing it! He calls the new web “LINKED DATA” and it will do to data what the Web did for documents such as words, pictures, video. According to Tim Berners-Lee, there will be three rules of the new web: 1) [...]

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Third updated edition of “Shift Happens” video uncovers more new trends and stats (the 1st edition was published here earlier). Here are some highlights: – The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004 – The number #1 country in Internet broadband penetration is Bermuda (US – #19, Japan #22) – There [...]

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Watch out – there is a new search kid in a town : it is called BING and it is owned by Microsoft. It looks like this is Microsoft’s answer to failed $44-billion (U.S.) takeover bid for Yahoo last year. Microsoft people say BING is way less advertising oriented than Google and it is designed [...]

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The Chairman of Advertising agency TBWA Worldwide Jean-Marie Dru is considered the father of “creative disruption”. According to Jean-Marie Dru, disruption is about “creating changes, but in a controlled way. It is impossible to build brands by thinking of them in mere linear terms. You must imagine greater futures for them. You need to call [...]

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