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Archive for August, 2007

What is social bookmarking?

Posted by maz on August 17th, 2007

Have you ever been in the position that you had to answer this question? Well, based on my experience this isn’t easy at all. But the following video may assist you: [youtube x66lV7GOcNU nolink] Although it sounds tremendously simple, one of my experiments in company with some friends didn’t work. Why? I’m still not sure, [...]

11th place for Austria

Posted by maz on August 11th, 2007

What would you have imagined as the most innovative country in the world? Recently the Economist Intelligence Unit published a list based on the number of patents each country generated during [the last] four years, per million people (mental_floss blog). Here is the list of the top 15: Japan Switzerland U.S. Sweden Finland Germany Denmark [...]

innovations that can’t emerge from an open process

Posted by maz on August 5th, 2007

New technologies are becoming so complex that many are beyond the possibility of democracy playing a role in their development. Thomas P. Hughes You may want to read this NY Times article if you’re interested in the area of conflict between open or democratic and elitist or top-down innovations.


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