Archive for the ‘Web/Tech’ Category

Legal madness in Milan

Friday, February 26th, 2010 Its not Milan Daaaaaarling this time. Just reading an editorial in the analogue version of the Guardian. On Wednesday, a Milanese court convicted three Google executives of violating privacy and gave them six-month suspended sentences. This is an analogue verdict in a ...

Advice for entrepreneurs

Monday, February 22nd, 2010 Address pain points in society to do good and do better   Entrepreneurs looking for growth opportunities should begin by identifying 'pain points' in society, say INSEAD Professor Subi Rangan and Shantanu Prakash, the founder of Indian educational company, ...

Grow VC the Kiva of tech start ups

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 I am proud to introduce Grow VC which has some great heritage behind it. Not only the creators but also projects like Kiva, Artistshare, Galaxy zoo and Local Motors (More on networked economics). Here is the context, 80% of the growth ...

Cambridge technology cooler than the Apple tablet?

Friday, January 29th, 2010 Cambridge produces some extraordinary technology. So I am glad to celebrate that. Its engagement as technology even into the automotive industry. Is it a disruptive technology? Minority Report springs to mind. And its twitter and wifi enabled.

Networked government – could reboot Britain

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 CFA is the latest wave in the growing government 2.0 movement, joining the ranks of Federal CIO Vivek Kundra's Data.gov site and innovation contests like Apps for Democracy and Apps for America, where citizens can create shared applications using public-sector ...

I get a 70% royalty for publishing my book

Thursday, January 21st, 2010 Quite extraordinary, I thought when reading about how Amazon is reaching out to authors in a manner that completely disintermediates publishing companies. And publishers as we know them are not happy campers at the moment. Arjan from Freedom Lab linked to ...

Networked television – we’ve only just begun

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 Sang the Carpenters, all those years ago. The next decade will see the continuing transformation of television, with video becoming more personal and democratic as new networks subvert and transcend the broadcast model. Dr William Cooper of the convergent communications consultancy ...

Alice Taylor a Doer speaks @ Do

Sunday, December 20th, 2009 Alice Taylor commissions cross-platform educational content for 14-19 year olds, aiming to get useful, life-helpful information to teens via their most favoured platforms and formats. She specializes in videogames and virtual worlds, and Channel 4 Education’s 2009 slate includes Routes, ...

What has happened to creativity?

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 Something has happened to Britain's creative community and there's no better way to understand this than to go back to a speech that Graham Greene, one of the most admired novelists of his day, gave in Germany in 1969 "on ...

Old world new world the journey to enterprise 2.0

Thursday, December 10th, 2009 Andrew McAfee is a principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business at MIT and recently wrote an article in the Financial Times, I would like to quote Andrew from the article but I can't, Copyright The Financial Times Limited ...