[http://blogs.sun.com/erickustarz/ Eric Kustarz]’s excellent point in favour of using [http://blogs.sun.com/erickustarz/entry/zfs_on_a_laptop ZFS for your laptop] to create a ”’extremely reliable store for all your personal data”’. Sun Microsystems is really making a change here. Wish for ZFS to become abuntantly ubiquitous. Next: swap a disk a day with your friend to have a copy of your …
Category Archives: innovation
Google Spends Money to Jump-Start Hybrid Car Development
Via [http://slashdot.org/ Slashdot]: :[http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/19/2258242&from=rss Google Spends Money to Jump-Start Hybrid Car Development]: “slugo writes ‘Internet search giant Google (GOOG) hopes to speed the development of plug-in hybrid cars by giving away millions of dollars to people and companies that have what appear to be practical ways to get plug-in hybrid automobiles to market faster. :’While …
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One trillion euro for AardWagen
How about rewarding ”’one trillion euro”’ for the first international precompetitive collaboration that produces a vehicle in ten years that improves rather than poverishes our Earth in each and every step of it’s lifecycle? From original conception to design, manufacturing, use and destruction, AardWagen will make our environment better, more whole, embellish it, enrich it. …
Do Patents Stop Companies From Creating ‘Perfect’ Products?
Via [http://slashdot.org Slashdot]: :[http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/19/1753257&from=rss Do Patents Stop Companies From Creating ‘Perfect’ Products?]: “Chris M writes “In a recent CNET article, the mobile phone editor writes about what he thinks would make a perfect phone. Unfortunately, as someone in the comments section points out, much of the technology that is used in this concept phone belongs …
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The Truth About Piracy
In The Truth About Piracy Steve Pavlina puts it bluntly: :”’is intellectual property a tool for scarcity thinking, or is it a tool for contribution?”’ For me, it’s the latter. And my biggest fear is that someone takes someone else’s idea, and than monopolizes it. I would claim patents and copyrights in order to avoid …
Update Emerce Update Co-Creatie
Update van de Emerce Update Co-Creatie: *Ongeveer 200 mensen *Hele goede lezingen van: **Roger Beekman en André Bouwman van ADK/60 layers of cake over open source. **Sander Dullaart van Favela Fabric over teruggeven van aandacht, vraaggestuurd aanbod. **Gert Hans Berghuis van Fabrique over drijfveren en zingeving voor co-creatie, samen met user generated value (i.t.t. user …
ICT Delta op 22 en 23 mei
Hoi Stanley, Dank voor de tip voor de ICT Delta op 22 en 23 mei in de Jaarbeurs in Utrecht. Ziet er veelbelovend uit. ‘k Heb me net ingeschreven. 22 mei wordt zo wel een ”’hele drukke dag”’ met én de Pentascope Parterdag, én Emerce Co-Creation Update, én de ICT Delta… What the bleep?! Je …
Aarde blog live on Earth Day
Creating a ”’brand new country”’ is a startling endeavour. And today is Earth Day. An excellent day to go public with my passion. I’m giving it my whole heart, soul, and mind. Previously code-named [http://wiki.aardrock.com/LandONE LandONE], I’ve renamed it to ”’Aarde”’. I’ve started the [http://aardsource.org/ Aarde blog]—domainnames aarde.org and aarde.net are already taken, so I’ve …
Trend Blend 2007 kaart
Zag ik vorige week bij [http://creativecommons.nl/ Creative Commons Nederland] aan de koelkast hangen. Bron: http://www.futureexploration.net/blog/2006/12/trend_map_for_2007_and_beyond.html
Joost—free TV with a peer-to-peer community
From http://www.joost.com/about.html: :What’s Joost? It’s free TV, with the choice to watch alone or with friends. Joost is packed with internet tools such as instant messaging and channel chat, allowing people to really share the TV experience. :It’s a completely secure platform for content owners that respects their rights, while protecting and enhancing their brands. …
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