Thursday, October 10. 2013
2 x San Francisco Bay Area
Michelle Zhou (living at San Francisco Bay Area, CA) works as researcher, who can decipher your personality from looking at 200 of your tweets. Johnny Hwin (living at the same place) is the protagonist in New Yorker’s article: Bay Watched. How San Francisco’s new entrepreneurial culture is changing the country.
Thursday, September 19. 2013
Luxembourg & New York City
The company Skype was founded in Luxembourg 10 years ago: A success story. In addition, I look at the data of the e-government development, providing the UN (headquartered in New York City, NY). Top 3: South Korea, Netherlands and UK.
Sunday, September 8. 2013
New York City & Boston
For reading I recommend the biography: Journey of a Thousand Miles: My Story by Lang Lang (living in New York City, NY) and David Ritz. Also John P. Kotter (living in Greater Boston) and Holger Rathgeber published the book: Our Iceberg is Melting.
Sunday, August 25. 2013
Seattle & San Francisco
The largest provider of IaaS is Amazon Inc. (Head Office Seattle, WA). The overview shows AWS compared to other providers. Heroku, which uses AWS, is a PaaS provider and comparatively provides most of the apps. Heroku itself is part of Salesforce Inc (Headquarters in San Francisco, CA).
Sunday, August 11. 2013
Peterborough & Detroit
This time my look goes to Peterborough (UK), the work site of Kieran Youngman. He is Microsoft Word 2007 world champion. Apropos Microsoft. The hard- and software maker, with CEO Steve Ballmer (born in Detroit, MI), is becoming Microsoft 3.0.
Thursday, June 20. 2013
New York City & Palermo
ACM's Turing Award 2012 goes to 2 winners. On the one to Shafi Goldwasser, who was born in New York City, NY. On the other hand to Silvio Micali, who was born in Palermo, Italy,
Wednesday, June 12. 2013
1863 & 1994
The company Bayer AG has 150th anniversary. In 1863 Bayer was founded in Wuppertal, today's headquarters are in Leverkusen (both Germany). Referring to Bayer AG The Register, whose beginning was 19 years ago, provides the following message: Germany leads global enterprise social push, it's all in the process, Mein Herr.
Tuesday, May 21. 2013
London & Bath
The company Trendstream Ltd. (headquartered in London, UK) analyses the WWW, also known as GlobalWebIndex. Recently, it published the analysis Stream Social Q1 2013. The WWW has as basis the web server. Netcraft Ltd (based in Bath, UK) provides a web server statistics for may 2013.
Friday, May 3. 2013
Little Rock & Singapore
Katherine Noyes (living in Little Rock, AR) headlines in a post about a future study: Open source is taking over the software world, survey says. Andrew Hang, who lives in Singapore, gives a slightly different example to open source. He writes about the $12 Gongkai Phone. How cheap can you make a phone?
Thursday, April 18. 2013
Mountain View & Berlin
World Art Day was on April 15th. Cause-related, Google (headquatered in Mountain View) provides a brief retrospective on the Google Art Project. My eyes set on the other hand forwards to NEXT in Berlin, which will take place on April 23rd and 24th. the NEXT 100 ranking is interesting.
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