Category Archives: innovation

Connecting existing things and thoughts in unforseen and unprecedented ways.

ZFS on a laptop

Eric Kustarz‘s excellent point in favour of using 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 … Continue reading

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Google Spends Money to Jump-Start Hybrid Car Development

Via Slashdot: 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 … Continue reading

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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, … Continue reading

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Do Patents Stop Companies From Creating ‘Perfect’ Products?

Via Slashdot: 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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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Innovatieplatform Noord-Nederland

Ans Reurekas wijst me op het Innovatieplatform Noord-Nederland. Een prachtig initiatief: Het Innovatie Platform Noord-Nederland (IPNN) is opgericht als katalysator en vergaarbak voor alle ideeën en ontwikkelingen die een positieve bijdrage zijn voor onze samenleving. Zo wil het platform een … Continue reading

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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 LandONE, I’ve renamed it to Aarde. … Continue reading

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Trend Blend 2007 kaart

Zag ik vorige week bij Creative Commons Nederland aan de koelkast hangen. Bron: http://www.futureexploration.net/blog/2006/12/trend_map_for_2007_and_beyond.html

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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 … Continue reading

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Car running on water?

I’ve heard about fuel cells that run on the energy release when hydrogen and oxygen bind in to water. And where you still need energy up front to split the water into these two components. But Eduard Povel pointed me … Continue reading

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Co-creation: whoever has the smartest customers wins

Do consumer driven innovation, customer care and Wikinomics work? Well, at Procter & Gamble they do. Read CIO Magazine on Wikinomics. I’m a big big fan of co-creation and it’s been like this ever since the great Internet technologies like … Continue reading

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