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Companies are so Last Century... by Chris Cook

I've been working in Scotland and Norway with the Nordic Enterprise Trust - backed by a little money from Innovation Norway - to develop new partnership-based "enterprise models" using this simple and infinitely flexible vehicle. eg there doesn't even need to be an ageement in writing between members.

Weekly column on China and technology by Marc Laperrouza

As you can guess, the iPhone is manufactured in China. But in fact, it is made by everybody else but Chinese companies…
About 17 Taiwanese companies - none a household name - provide parts ranging from the camera lens to the battery charger. Japanese companies are responsible for printed circuit boards and the lithium ion battery. Then, there îs the German touch screen, worth around USD 35, the Korean microprocessor chip - itself based on a British technology… In other words, while most components are produced in China, no wholly-owned Chinese company appears in the iPhone food chain. As a result, of the $280 manufacturing cost of each iPhone unit, less than 5% actually stays in China.

Identifying open & free wifi networks more easily by Pascal Magnenat

Have you ever struggled to find a real open & free wifi network while browsing the list of available networks displayed by your notebook or mobile phone?
To make things easier, I've though of one simple idea: to identify the open & free networks with a common sign. This sign will be added before the wifi SSID network name.
((o)) is the sign that has been chosen. Its "o" should evoke openness while the parenthesis are here to symbolize the waves and to distinguish the letter "o" from the other letters composing the SSID name. -> A given network could have the following name: "((o)) network_name".

"Communities dominate Brands" by Ahonen by Philippe Galland

I rode that book in 3 days, was written end of 2005 but still very up to date and usefull. Any people wanna have more information, feel free to contact me. I am building a web2.0 website and this book really helped me to see the trends that were going on.

Welcome! by Helge Staedtler

You might want to have a look at the SCOPE07-conference in november where I will give a short presentation together with Barbara Staib on space & communication in virtual environments.

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