South Korea is developing Busan as a world-class city specializing in digital content, with the latest ICON2009 hosted there by Busan IT Industry Promotion Agency (BIPA). Gamers, animation industry, other digital content and CG people from 15 countries were all there.

The non-payment risk rate for online merchants in Europe has fallen to the lowest level in 7 years, to just above one quarter of one percent, in some cases superior to bricks and mortar transactions. These and other useful findings are summarised from the Deutsche Bank e-Commerce report.

New mobile phone technologies like social network MXit enable banking and currency alternatives for transactions, potentially useful in African nations without full support for banking infrastructure nation-wide.

SAP have invested in a Internet of Services community, launched at the announced at the EU Future Internet Assembly, being held in Stockholm, Sweden right now. Where SAP goes, corporations follow…

Smart Grids are fast become the buzzword – and a source of rivers of green gold in funding – as cities de-carbonize the electricity grid, and create efficiencies through monitoring and adjusting the supply. CURRENT Grid is one of the smart grid leaders, and was highly ranked in this VentureBeat contest.

IBM Research – Almaden, in collaboration with colleagues from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab have produced simulation experiments that move the world closer to a computer similar in size and power to the human brain.

The recent International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) conference in Cairo, quoted World Bank research linking each 10% increase in internet to a 1.3% increase in economic growth.

One of the active Victoria Bushfire tweeters tell the story in his own words.

Innovations from CeBIT, a wrap-up of analysis from CeBIT & some future Innovation Themes!

Super-fast Internet is the new ‘Wealth of Nations’ – enabling innovation competitive advantage & improving destination desirability; failure is not an option.

Do you dream of outer space? Dream a little more, with this slideshow of NASA.

What do code and classics have in common? An interesting insight from Jon Dahl.

SLIDES — Web 2.0 & social media are the part of new media of the digital age.
This includes blogs, wikis like Wikipedia, RSS feeds and sites like youtube or stumbleupon.
Business, Not Tech.
These slides set out the 10 key technologies. with a business focus, in business language. not tech-speak. So many explanations out there are technical.
We created these slides for clients, which along with a verbal presentation, explain what the technologies are, and why business should care.
2thinknow also have a proprietary web 2.0 strategy matrix that assists business to make rational …

COMMENT, Australia — Call centre workers are an unloved occupation. But industry practise, and individual behavior are at least partly responsible.
The reality is basic infrastructure and services no longer work in Australia, which by Western standards has approaching the worst service ethics of any English-speaking country. Even worse than England, and that is saying something.

I still remember the Telstra monopoly float, wasn’t that supposed to improve telecommunication industry service?
Now to the latest debacle…
Primus Telecommunications: a herd of slovenly telecommunication cows wandering across the ‘fibre-optic’ dirt-track of Australia
To connect a single …

Web 2.0 enables all new types of communication, for many reasons, the medium is indeed the message…

Popular montage video centered around the history of telecommunications.
Originally from a business presentation posted to YouTube, where it’s been popular.
Set to music from the Propellerheads.

COMMENT, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA — Thanks to all of you who attended our joint Web 2.0 seminar in our Melbourne offices.
It’s an emerging topic in Australia (Australia is about at early-adopter stage (2%), whereas the USA is in adolescence on Web 2.0 adoption.)
We had quite a few big Melbourne companies, government, and some fellows from the press…
Sydney Seminar Tuesday, November 20th.
It was informative, interesting, and please remember when it comes to Web 2.0 you are not alone.
Our partner firm simple, can help; wherever you are on the growth curve.
Take care,
…

COMMENT, Global – A couple of months ago I was in San Francisco at a business event. The topic was citizen journalism. The women next to me was writing paper notes.
However, every single person, almost in that room was writing on a laptop.
The wireless internet crashed in the first 15 minutes. A few people were asked to turn off ‘Bit-torrent’ a heavy duty file downloader/sharer. Napster-ish.
We’ll contrast that later with an event in Australia last week.

COMMENT, Global: 2thinknow ® have identified Web 2.0 as one of the big trends sweeping the business world in a short to medium term.
If you feel Web 2.0 is a buzzword. it is. But then again unlike most, this one is useful.
What is Web 2.0?
In short Web 2.0 is the new new printing press, wireless and TV Tube.

NEWS AND ANALYSIS, San Francisco, USA – Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of leading blogging platform WordPress, spoke at WordCamp 2007 today, Sunday July 22, 2007.
For the Agenda of the Matt Mullenweg’s presentation: http://2007.wordcamp.org/schedule/state-of-the-word/
NOTICE AND LICENSE: This story is copyright © 2007 2thinknow.This story is licensed for reprint in full or excerpt under copyright in any print or online media, under the terms that it includes the following byline within the reprint:Source: Christopher Hire, 2thinknowTM : http://www.2thinknow.com/innovation

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