I've not been here for ages. What happens in this blogosphere? I got invited to what I wrote about in my blog http://smartroad.blogspot.com/2008/01/globalisation-affects-economy-and.html

The direct link is here:
http://www.ami-communities.eu/wiki/New_Global

How about Kurt, have you been active here?

We are talking with Kurt Linderoos about the means to connect those persons who can't participate in the many meetings going on in relationship to LivingLabs@Work and other communities.

A chat funtion might be a good idea or an integration of skype to this platform to enhance group meetings.

* To improve the interactivity
* Real time commenting
* How about podcasts to get a voice to the community?

The Apple iPod is said to be an innvoative product. I learned a few days ago that the MP3 format and WAW originated at the Frauenhof Institute in Germany.

It would be nice to get more details about this.

Skype was Invented here on the old continent but eBay decided to make it to a part of its money machine.

EU is good on innovation but we need to think more in terms of applications and business innovations.

I see that things are boiling up around FP7. We are collecitng a Finnish dream team to become a part of development processes where we could share and contribute.

I haven't been here for ages. I see that Kurt has been more active. How are things in this forum? I felt it was getting pretty quiet. Feeling lonely in this environment. Hope to see more bloggers and postings. Have a great day.

On Wednesday, November 8, 2006, I participated in a seminar “Hong Kong – Guangdong Your partners for success in China – 8 November 2006 Helsinki.” The Scandic Hotel ball room was full of people. Couldn’t count them all, but I guess several hundred participants and maybe one hundred Chinese and Hong Kong business development officials, entrepreneurs and businessmen / women.

Rapid economic development in China has created major opportunities in two areas: a fast expanding market for goods and services, and a sophisticated production base for manufacturers and retailers. Successful companies realise that China is not one market, but a series of regional markets. Currently, most foreign companies concentrate to the Pearl River Delta region (PRD) on the southern tip of the Chinese mainland, closely connected to Hong Kong.

What is the difference? Yesterday I was interviewed over Skype concerning Web 2.0 applications an practices at KK-Net. The audio interview will be published in the coming next days. The story is a part of the preparations for IST 2006 Helsinki and is also related to "CONSEN - CONSEN (EEIG) Euro-Group is a Grouping of European SMEs who have agreed to cooperate as Euro-Cluster in Information Society Technologies projects, tenders and business throughout Europe."

I have a feeling that we need to get down to some very practical , down to earth work, or we will continue to search for the best collaboration models for years.

- Collaboration
- Engineering
- Knowledge
- Leadership
- LivingLabs
- Logistics
- Media
- Mobility
- Rural
- SEEM
- Well-being-Services

What could be the first practical thing?

Web 2.0 could very well be a marketing thing. As such, some of the Web 2.0 services are getting better and easier to use for the masses. Or another thing might be that the masses have learned to use web based tools much better than before the web 1.0 bubble. It can also be a path out of the bubble, into new business and application fields. Web 2.0 attracts money - at least at the west coast US and Silicon Valley. Connecting people is one thing, connecting millions of people into social networks is another thing. The connectivity thing is expanding. The web is moving towards the masses and that's what it was intended for initially, maybe? Cross-cultural and Cross-national social collaboration is an important movement. This platform is an example of that.

I was following a blogging path from BarCamp Ireland and landed at an Irish site where I got some ideas for this blog.

http://www.argolon.com/2006/08/20/ict-champions-scheme/

ICT Ireland met to try to scope out a new initiative to encourage the take-up of home computers in Ireland and to further develop computer competence in the community sector. The aim is to help employers and employees improve their general ICT skills.