146 Articles match "Europe","Technology"

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
The move was widely read as the first thrust in what will prove to be a sustained assault on Google itself – one which Team Jobs will only abandon if Google makes an unlikely retreat from what Apple clearly perceives as its core business: mobile device technology. Unica's survey of 155 marketers in the US and Europe fond that 70% of them are already using some form of social media, or plan to do so in the coming year. VIRTUAL AND GAMES ... Sony is launching a new interface for PlayStation 3’s virtual world Home – giving faster load times and allowing users to navigate through
 
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Their mission is: … to transform lives and strengthen low-income communities by empowering people with information and communication technology. We use technology as a medium to fight poverty, stimulate entrepreneurship and create a new generation of changemakers. then spoke to Daniel Morris and Charo Moreno about how local young people will engage, and to Mauricio Davilia, director of CDI Europe … and joined in a conversation Young people looking for jobs and new skills … community problems needing innovative solutions … smartphones increasingly popular … apps for these phones a big growth area.
 
Thursday, March 4, 2010
The latter kind of architecture, as described by Kropotkin , was what prevailed in the networked free towns and villages of late medieval Europe.  At the same time, network technologies are making such organization more user-friendly with each passing year. I believe that the growing fiscal crisis of the state, and the growing tendency toward high unemployment and underemployment becoming a norm, will have two long-term results:  first, the production of a growing share of value in the informal economy in place of its purchase with wages; and second, the decoupling of the social safety net from both the welfare state and wage employment.
 

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Look to Asia and northern Europe for a sense of mobile's future importance in the US. So what does your business have to offer your customers via mobile? Distributed Community Manifestoes Technology Web 2. Following last month's release of the iPhone 3G , along with the launch of the App Store , and what Brian Fling called the " first true Mobile 2.0 ," everyone around here is talking about the emergence of the mobile device as a critical facet of web strategy. My colleague Anders Rosenquist, who is seriously deep on mobile, presented a first take on the company point of
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Article: The Question Concerning Social Technology. Very interesting 3 part meditation on the dangers of social technology, by an active participant in social media, with also many great comments on each article by thoughtful readers. social technologies). will Knowledge is almost always being produced in service of power - not as a liberating force from it and there is always a gap between what a society proclaims about it’s goals and aims - and the functional outcomes of its institutional policies and procedures. By Joshua-Michéle Ross.
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These roots are significant because our patterns of use, our ways of embracing or rejecting technology are grounded in this history. Online knew from that experience that whenever we talked about technology (social media) we needed to also talk about practice and the human beings doing the practicing. This is true of both the technology and the practices. This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media. I
tools and have more cases in Africa than in Europe; see their map with NGO cases On Saturday the newspaper had a great interview about the gap between the internetgeneration (screenagers) and the rest (40+): I didn't want to blog it because it's in Dutch and only for subscribers, but I'm still thinking about so here we go after all: Does 40+ hamper innovation? It's a double interview with two workers, 44 and 24 years old, Ruud and Liza, working together in an advisory job.
Sargasso has won the award amongst other reasons because during the time of the referendum on Europe, they read the whole constitution bit by bit and blogged about it. The Dutchbloggies award (honestly: this is NOT translated) is won by sargasso a Dutch group blog. Radio online has an interview with them, as well as with Wim de Bie who won his second Dutchbloggy.
On Friday 4 December, Mike Butcher , the Editor of TechCrunch Europe , came into the Made by Many offices for chat. Mike pointed out that in Europe, and in the UK in particular, we fear failure. By and large, the UK and Europe are adverse to risk and failure, whereas Israel, and the US, to a lesser degree, tend to be more willing to dive in, even if failure is a very real possibility. Years ago, when I was a teenager working as a summer camp counsellor, I was given a very valuable lesson in the expectation of success . (Full Full disclosure: I have yet to actually learn
Personally, I learned a lot about completely different people through hitchhiking all across europe. But I sure think a large challenge will be in bridging the generational differences in use of technologies in companies. Dave Snowden blogged about the virtual and the real . He wonders about the younger generation, reflecting on his own past and the way he learned to interact with other minded people: " We played on the street, with whoever else was on the street at the time and we learnt to adapt to different people and different attitudes and backgrounds.
He makes the really important point that new media technologies do not have to be in the hands of everyone, before they make a fundamental impact . In a remarkable way the rise of computer literacy in the early part of the 21st century in Iran is comparable to the rise of newspapers and magazines early in the 19th century, when one of the first groups of Iranian students that were sent to Europe brought with them the first printing machine and with it founded the first periodicals, whereby expanding the spectrum of the public domain, of the collective consciousness of a society on the