Billion-Dollar Startup Club - WSJ.com

Start ups on steroids!




The USA, China, European battle makes this chart doubly interesting!




Billion-Dollar Startup Club - WSJ.com

Google More Innovative Than Apple - Business Insider

After more than a decade "The Internet of Things" seems to be being talked up more again...




Google More Innovative Than Apple - Business Insider







and what with google trying to make a big deal of home heating and lighting with Nest Labs which clearly with the iPod man at its helm have done great things, it still only the message I recall Scott McNealy peddling about Java and Zigbee in the 9o's http://www.zigbee.org/




I don't doubt that augmented reality with LBS being real now and wearable become fashionable (we know about fashion) and of course "scanners" for everything from RFID to traffic, nature and health its going to be interesting how real it gets before 2015!




Linked Data, Big Data, Visualisation, Mobile and Cloud services and Cloud learning is as interesting as ever. The school in the cloud, the clinic in the cloud, the brain in the cloud, makes sense to me!

2050: What if cities ruled the world? Davos. The World Economic Forum

Its Davos time again!




The Charter city debate continues:




2050: What if cities ruled the world? | Forum:Blog Forum:Blog | The World Economic Forum

"Imagine it is 40 years in the future. Government has been decentralized to the city level. Connections between cities consolidate into mega-corridors, which span national and state borders. This is the time of the mayor, whose political star has risen."

Overcome the Eight Barriers to Confidence - Rosabeth Moss Kanter - Harvard Business Review

"Confidence is an expectation of a positive outcome. It is not a personality trait; it is an assessment of a situation that sparks motivation. If you have confidence, you’re motivated to put in the effort, to invest the time and resources, and to persist in reaching the goal. It’s not confidence itself that produces success; it’s the investment and the effort."

Overcome the Eight Barriers to Confidence - Rosabeth Moss Kanter - Harvard Business Review

Rise of mobile computing fosters new tech hubs

Silicon valley worried about apps hubs abroad?
Rise of mobile computing fosters new tech hubs - FT.com#axzz2pQVCpuQe#axzz2pQVCpuQe

revisit the London story in 2020!! http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/aab581c4-6c85-11e3-8b61-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2pQVCpuQe

Bill Gates Invests In The Urine Powered Mobile Phone - Forbes#b01g03f20b14#b01g03f20b14#b01g03f20b14#b01g03f20b14

Bill Gates Invests In The Urine Powered Mobile Phone - Forbes#b01g03f20b14#b01g03f20b14#b01g03f20b14#b01g03f20b14

iycr2014 - HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!

We remember and celebrate a lot this year:

100yrs since WW I
50 yrs since the conviction of Nelsom Mandela
25yrs since the invention of the Internet, or WWW
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