Web, Internet and the Economy
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The Man Who Wants To Teach The Web To The Whole World
There is a man in California, who wants to teach the Web to the whole world. November 2013, a very important event, named Web2connect is about to take place in Paris, France. Web2connect, as the name goes, is the place to be for all start-ups and Internet professionals in France…
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Infographic: Understanding Credit how Card Numbers work
I tend to bitch about infographics every now and then, but sometimes you find something which is really valuable. Like the following diagram by Jess.net about how credit card numbers work. Obviously, it’s meant for you to understand the nomenclature and not actually crack the codes. Goes without saying. Legend:…
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The love-hate relationship of Governments with Cyberspace
A few weeks ago I started contributing to the innovation generation blogs, an initiative sponsored by Alcatel. Here is my first piece entitled: Governments Ease Into Cyberspace. In October 2012 I took part in the Conference on Cyberspace, an event put together by the Hungarian government on behalf of the international…
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Rocketspace: even Russian companies go to the US to conquer the world!
Duncan Logan, founder of Rocketspace is originally Scottish and moved to San Francisco some time ago. His first venture didn’t work but 20 months ago, he then decided to found Rocketspace. Rocketspace could be described as “offices as a service” Logan said. He confided to our team of bloggers that…
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UK payment fraud: NFA says the devil is in your details!
Stephen Harrison (photo), Chief Executive , Nation Fraud Authority (NFA) delivered a presentation on June 28 regarding the importance of fraud in advanced payment methods in the UK at the marketforce future of cards & payments conference: the National Fraud Authority was set up by a response to fraud by…
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Chinese Internet: the global battle has begun
The Chinese Internet is now conquering the world. In a previous series, Alban Fournier, a young French professional who fell in love with Asia warned us that China was the next worldwide International giant in the making. In this piece, he is expatiating on this previous report and delving into…
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Years are measured in the intensity of our experience
Years aren’t measured in just months and days but in the intensity of our experience November 15th wasn’t quite a day like the others. Woken up in our New York City hotel room by an SMS alert at two in the morning, we learned that the police were evacuating Zuccotti Park. …
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Jimmy Wales Describes What Wikipedia is Really About
On October 26, I attended the IStrategy conference, which took place in Amsterdam. I was there to deliver a keynote on social media are ROI/ROE. Still, I must confess I also attended the conference to listen to Jimmy Wales who gave us an overview of his celebrated online encyclopaedia: Wikipedia.…
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IDC: 70% of future growth in emerging markets will come from Asia
Aisis will be driving growth in emerging markets, Adrian Ho from IDC declared during his “new technologies & future priorities for IT departments” presentation. He was replacing Sandra Ng who unfortunately couldn’t attend that meeting. IDC: 70% of future growth in emerging markets will come from Asia Asia is shaking…
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Thorniley updates us on the state of the global economy
What’s the state of the global economy? Daniel Thorniley (left) runs his own private business consultancy, but in his own words, he is not a “loser”. He has 235 Corporate clients even though he is on his own. He was able to acquire so many clients because he knew them…
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Me and the Web: matters of no consequence – The Little Prince
Our friends from Likeminds in Exeter have asked me to write a little piece about me and the Web and it didn’t have to do with business matters, so there it is, with a few literary references of no consequence. “Ha tutte le carte in regola per essere un artista”…
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Long Now Foundation: slower pace, better future … well maybe
Good morning, we are on Monday, the twenty-first of January zero two thousand and eight. No this isn’t a typo, but rather a sign that we are taking into account the fact that humanity still has a few millenniums to go through. Well… hopefully! [One may have doubts when one…
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