March 7, 2009
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This week my colleague ijohnpederson blogged about YouTube‘s January analytical results. For the first time over 100 million internet users in the U.S. watched 6.3 Billion videos. In the globalized world today that number is not very big. Consider how … Continue reading
January 18, 2009
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Over the long holiday I finally finished Tom Friedman’s book Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America. The book is a mixed blessing. Friedman has written one of the best books to … Continue reading
December 4, 2008
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Finally I am pushing my way through Tom Friedman’s Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America. If your a fan of his The World Is Flat series you’re in for a fast, … Continue reading
October 26, 2008
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India is the second fastest growing economy in the world, second only to their Asian neighbor China. Both have embraced globalization yet are racing to secure resources as their economies, populations, markets and environments grow out of control. India has … Continue reading
October 8, 2008
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Tectonic Economics? Robyn Meredith has shared a must read bookThe Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us. Take a look at Wall Street lately? Then think about oil, the … Continue reading
September 7, 2008
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From MIT’s Technology Review comes a special report on China’s production of a new, third generation CPU family that could ultimately challenge Intel within a decade. Since the Chinese do not have the ability to manufacture CPU chips themselves, and … Continue reading
September 1, 2008
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I found myself fascinated by China Shakes the World: A Titan’s Rise and Troubled Future – and the Challenge for America by James Kynge. Yet most of the time I was also infuriated over how America has fallen asleep regarding … Continue reading
June 27, 2008
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In today’s world it seems everything is about China. There are so many emerging topics of interest Americans need to understand about this giant economy and manufacturing base. Ted Fishman’s China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges … Continue reading
June 18, 2008
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Internet2 has partnered to transfer real time data between China and New South Wales. Crossing the globe merging multiple countries and processing huge amounts of data. Very cool to see advanced research and education networks grabbing 512 megs per second … Continue reading
May 20, 2008
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Innovation Nation: How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do to Get It Back from John Kao is a timely read. To say I enjoyed his lessons how America is losing it’s innovation … Continue reading