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Amazing piece of piece of technology

 

 

Nice video interview of Steve Blamer on channel9 posted by Rodrigo.

 

 

 

 

 

From Microsoft the main sources of innovation will come from the edge of the network (PC/Phone and other intelligent terminal) and the intercommunication of all application/infrastructure and web services.

 

Luxembourg has just said YES to Europe, last referendum on the EU constitution this year, after two NO from France and The Netherlands, this could be the last ever !

The impact is positive for Jean Claude jucker that hasn't hesitated to put his job on the grill but as all other countries have put their Referendum or vote on hold the future steps are unclear and the future of Europe is de facto unclear !

Europe might need another form of vote, may be an Internet poll occurring in one day with a unique question independent from local figures or fight assuring a cohesion and a European identity.

 

 

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London won against Paris and will hold the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (London got the most of online support ;-)
 

However all the french team was in Singapore to support Paris (even chirac just before the G8 meeting hold in Ireland) 

a spectacular movie from Luc besson was presented to support Paris.  

 

 

 

 

A nice post on wired relating how behave the equation from Eric von Hippel in today's online world, a prof at MIT's Sloan School of Management, offered a way to think about innovation in the guise of a formula: b = (v x r) - c - d.

where b stands for the customer's benefit, which ultimately determines demand. This being a business school formula, think of that customer as a firm considering whether to deploy a new product or process. The company would calculate b this way: How much of its business (dollar volume, or v) would the innovation apply to? How much would this new technology increase the profit margin (rate of profit, r) of that business? What's the change cost (c) of switching? And what's the loss in "old benefits" (d) when the company abandons its current way of doing things?

The conclusion is that today innovation need speed of execution to embrace pure velocity, with or without a path to profit. Accept a world in which transaction costs approach zero. Transform customer attention, energy, and creativity into something other customers will pay for. Turn every desktop into a node in a globe-spanning distributed processing rig.

Google is the class act here, but there's also Blogger, Flickr, Second Life, Skype, Technorati, Wikipedia, and practically everything that calls itself open source - a host of innovative enterprises scrambling to wring value out of a zillion mouseclicks.

 

 

A great post on daliywireless

The agreement was unveiled at the O'Reilly Where 2.0 conference in San Francisco during a keynote presentation delivered by Stephen Lawler, general manager of the Microsoft MapPoint business unit.
The OrbView-3 satellite, the newest high-resolution commercial imaging satellite in operation today, can collect up to 210,000 square kilometers a day of panchromatic (black and white) imagery at one-meter resolution, and color imagery at four-meter resolution of virtually any area on earth.
"On-demand satellite imagery is another compelling way that people can bring to life their search experience," said Orbimage Chief Operating Officer Bill Schuster. "This collaboration represents a significant step forward in bringing a wide range of valuable search applications to both consumers and businesses."
Capable of measuring, mapping and monitoring objects smaller than automobiles and spectrally differentiating thousands of land use/land cover types, OrbView-3 imagery supports mapping, environmental monitoring, urban planning, resource management, homeland defense, national security and emergency preparedness.
Over 10 million square kilometers of imagery has been collected since the launch of OrbView-3 in June 2003, which includes imagery of most of the world's capital cities, airports, and other areas of interest.

When OrbView-5 is launched in 2007, this next-generation commercial imaging satellite will acquire up to 700,000 square kilometers of imagery each day at the unprecedented resolution of 0.41-meters.

Slated for availability this summer, the first release of MSN Virtual Earth will provide a one-of-a-kind local search experience offering a core set of reference points such as maps, aerial imagery, photos, consumer and business directories, and ratings and reviews.

In addition, MSN Virtual Earth will allow the broader community of consumers and businesses to contribute their own location-specific information to create an always-expanding, dynamic and relevant local search.

Google Earth and Microsoft are challenging the NASA's World Wind (free tool).