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.

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

Conroy opened CeBIT AusInnovate, with National Broadband Network for Australia. Then the detail – CSIRO & DSTO – the need not to kill innovation… highlights from CeBIT in Sydney.

Our Executive Director, Christopher Hire’s LIVE innovation analysis from CeBIT Asia Pacific; on this journal, twitter & social media.

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/
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Innovation: Past and Future of WordPress, according to Matt
Mullenweg …

ANALYSIS, San Francisco – WordCamp 2007 commenced today in San Francisco, at the Swedish American Hall on Market St. This is my second post.Presenter in the second session, was experienced journalist and IT veteran John Dvorak. He was joined by writer from the (sadly rumoured to be defunct) Business 2.0, OM Malik.
Dvorak had two interesting points regarding innovation:
“Bloggers present themselves as bloggers”
“Citizen journalism”
Schedule: http://2007.wordcamp.org/schedule/blogs-vs-journalism/
Both these allude to the innovation zeitgeist as 2thinknowTM define it.
The innovation zeitgesit in blogging is the upcoming professionalism and redesign of the presentation of user …

Forget myspace, unless you are a band, start thinking web social communities integrated around common ideas. In business words – fragmented vertical markets of web communities.
Some have said personal/professional divide. More likely we will have multiple profiles in multiple places, StumbleUpon, Xing, linkedIn, Ning, Skype and others being some of those.
Social communities
These are also ending the disconnection found in modern society. Social disconnection is the number one Innovation Driver, found in our Global Innovation research.
So in other words, feeling depressed, empty & alone? Well, in a word you are not …

Fresh from my posting about university students, I saw this on www.Digg.com the news ranking site.
The world’s oldest blogger… this lady has a very entertaining (and pictorial) blog.
“My name is Olive Riley. I live in Australia near Sydney. I was born in Broken Hill on Oct. 20th 1899.Broken Hill is a mining town, far away in the centre of Australia. My Friend, Mike, has arranged this blog for me. He is doing the typing and I am telling the stories.” 
read Olive’s Blog | digg story
A very entertaining read, and to …

Webcentral , Australia’s largest Web hosting company, have been having email outtages and delays to most customers for the last 3 days, according to their support line.
This is the longest sustained email outage I have experienced since 1999.
In Whirlpool, the broadband users forum, there were calls for compensation and/or a class action. (link below)
Personally, we have not been able to receive emails consistently for 3 days, consistently. It is driving us nuts, and worse as it doesn’t effect all accounts or all domains at the same time. I cannot …

This little beauty is a Sony UX. it’s basically a full computer a little larger than an iMate. Around the size and weight of your typical paperback novel.
http://b2b.sony.com/Solutions/subcategory/notebooks/ux-series they are around USD$1500

When is technology an Innovation?
Readers of my other posts, and Technorati & Fast Company and other online mentions would notice I don’t like Geek for Geek’s sake. Think Geek is not ideal. boys with toys…!
Sony have Innovation Here, or close
This machine (if well designed, I have to check one out soon) is an innovation if it enables a strategic …