I have been reading this ranking all week.  The big news is the significant drop of the US and Canada, as European countries leapt up. I felt that at LIFT in Geneva.  While Silicon Valley and the US is tacitly referred to as the leaders, its clear that the thought leaders are in Europe. The sixth annual Global Information Technology Report from the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Geneva compares 122 countries on dozens of criteria, from Internet penetration to educational attainment to availability of venture capital. Source: 2007 Networked Readiness Here is the top 30. Many factors are taken into … Continue reading 2007 Networked Readiness – Country ranking

A contact in Poland sent me this updated link, that we reported on last December.  The site seems to be up and running now, with the obvious lead of a Toyota branded Visa card. Link to Toyota Bank What in particular caught my attention, is the Toyota branded security token for online banking.   Technorati tags: Toyota+Bank, Poland Continue reading Toyota Bank Poland – including smart cards, and online banking tokens

 Interesting survey noted here at Finextra, completed by McKinsey.  It indicates web services, and internal p2p, collective intelligence activities are preferred over wikis’ blogs and podcast’s.  More than 75 percent of the executives said they plan to maintain or increase their investments in technology trends that encourage user collaboration such as: peer-to-peer networks, which allow for efficient file sharing; social networking; and Web services, which make it easier for different systems to communicate with one another automatically. Source: Execs prefer Web services, P2P to mashups, wikis and blogs | News.blog | CNET News.com Of particular interest to this blog, is … Continue reading McKinsey notes Banks lag in use of Web 2.0, for security reasons

 I am increasingly fascinated by the debate on the Twitter phenomenon.  Twitter in case you haven’t heard, is the latest thing in the social space.  It permits users to type in any brief comment, of up to 140 characters, any time they wish.  It has been referred to as micro-blogging.  The encouragement is to talk about anything, and everything, what you are doing where you are going, what you are feeling, thinking, etc. The great paradox of ‘social networking’ is that it uses narcissism as the glue for ‘community’. Being online means being alone, and being in an online community … Continue reading "I did! I did taw a puddy tat!" – The great Tweeter debate, is the wrong debate