Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Crypto-Currency Market Capitalizations | Bitcoin Litecoin Peercoin Namecoin Quark ProtoShares WorldCoin Primecoin Megacoin Nxt and more...

Crypto-Currency Market Capitalizations | Bitcoin Litecoin Peercoin Namecoin Quark ProtoShares WorldCoin Primecoin Megacoin Nxt and more...

Taking time to watch the development. 2014 will be interesting for sure!

Professor Pat Pending had better watch out http://www.ft.com/.../e230307a-61c4-11e3-aa02... and http://rt.com/business/bitcoin-jpmorgan-internet-cash-116/ Wacky Races indeed!!!


http://bitcoinrichlist.com/top100

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/12/fbi_wallet/?cid=15955134

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

The 'fake' Mandela memorial interpreter said it all | Slavoj Žižek | Comment is free | The Guardian

An interesting read of a most extraordinary incident from a most extraordinary celebration of a leader:
The 'fake' Mandela memorial interpreter said it all | Slavoj Žižek | Comment is free | The Guardian

Zizek is such an interesting guy, well worth following, as a Lacanian his understanding of the "other" and the "real" is fascinating http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpAMbpQ8J7g and Lacan himself had so much to teach everyone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb50-117dQQ must get to see Zizeks films http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqE353qgDMI "a leader sets you free!"

Google buys major military robot maker: Why?

Along with the Amazon work on automated delivery by drone, the next decade will be real interesting!

Google buys major military robot maker: Why does search giant want to be 'BigDog' of automation? - NBC News.com

Not just at a tech and commercial level but at a humanitarian and ethical level.
http://www.stopkillerrobots.org/2013/10/unga2013/

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

20 Reasons Why the Internet of Things will be Big and Important

The IOT discussion roles on, its been up and down in the last 15 yrs and resurrected again in the last 5 yrs, will it become a mainstream term, perhaps not simply because of the semantics on the label

20 Reasons Why the Internet of Things will be Big and Important

This is what has been said so many time, it is a good read!

Monday, December 09, 2013

We can learn so much from this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornsweet_illusion

As ive blogged before, a favourite concept of mine is "the edge"! Where most diversity, innovation and change happens!

Tuesday, December 03, 2013

Minesto - Ocean Energy Solutions | Deep Green Technology

Minesto - Ocean Energy Solutions | Deep Green Technology

Along with google power kites ( http://nickhorslen.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=good+energies )in the air these renewables are looking very interesting!

Silicon Valley catches Bitcoin fever - FT.com

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/943494ea-5aa5-11e3-b255-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=uk#axzz2mJLqlHZM
Having been conscious of the p2p protocol developments for over a decade and the emergence of the crowd and the cloud, Bitcoin has been looming for a couple of years. The popular press stories add to the tech hype but the opportunities in various area's from ecommerce to microfinance and mobile payments and remote service exchanges at an international level and even into areas like international development and #digitalDIYaid are interesting to keep an eye on

Silicon Valley catches Bitcoin fever - FT.com

Ripple and Buttercoin, a Bitcoin exchange.
http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/20/buttercoin/
http://buttercoin.com/#/
http://buttercoin.net/

https://ripple.com/
https://www.computingforgood.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripple_(monetary_system)

A couple to watch in 2014!

Monday, December 02, 2013

Amazon droning on - Look back 15 web years, look forwards 15 web years!

Amazon dreaming of drones for their accelerated delivery!? Don't rush to see these drones flying about our heads anytime soon but as someone who helped drive the biggest pan-euro ecommerce initiative in Europe when most had not even heard ...of Amazon or EBay this side of the pond its great food for thought and a wake up call http://www.microsoft.com/misc/features/features_eChristmas.htm
It was the fact that Amazon, EBay and others were only into their second year of trading and struggling with massive costs and lack of mass adoption that made us stop and think. Everyone said amazon would bomb! We took it direct to major organisation from the EU in Brussels and their DG's focused on encryption, security, trade and telco and many thought we were nut. We didnt do £300,000 of sales on that first site in 97 and now that it is what is being done every minute online this christmas. For most the WWW stood for Why Would We! now look at the value of online trade in Europe. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25180906 Amazons vision is a vision but these devices along with 3D printers and collaborative cloud models are going to change the world in the next 10 years like those before did so massively in the last 20yrs. It will only accelerate. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25180906 the impact for hard to reach rural economies all over the world could be amazing from healthcare to trade. Think creatively!

Silicon Valley catches Bitcoin fever - FT.com

From crowd collaboration to cloud funding, microfinance and microinsurance, the old and new coinage as a proxy to services or value has a way to run and its going to be interesting to follow the path or keep up with the race(s)
Silicon Valley catches Bitcoin fever - FT.com