« Nous sommes un laboratoire urbain dédié au dialogue et à la création pour les multiples communautés nous entourant, des étudiants, des chercheurs, des entrepreneurs, des institutions et des habitants sur le campus d’Orsay »,
Proto204, le lieu improbable du Plateau de Saclay, Dossiers thema
Who knew Utah was a tech hub? Over the past few years, tech companies have rejuvenated Utah’s labor market. It’s home to an NSA supercomputing facility and a growing number of tech firms.
Map: The Most Common* Job In Every State : Planet Money : NPR
With all of these truck drivers it does make you wonder about the impact of self-driving delivery systems.
Private World – Maison Tamboite Paris
Maison Tamboite exists to remind me that I’m unable to imagine the top end price range of any product, even bicycles.
Cashpad, la caisse enregistreuse design et intelligente à destination des établissements de restauration.
Cashpad – La caisse enregistreuse réinventée
This is an extremely impressive product. Why?
Simply it removed the “Chain Advantage”. For a generation the resturant business was ruled by companies that had access to the logistics, and then the technologies of chain brands and systems.
The logistics advantage died about twenty years ago when the logistics operators moved to direct selling. That left the technology advantage…
Cashpad removes that advantage, the resturant had world class payment, stock control, operations and UI.
If this is happening to resturants, why not clothes, office supplies, or ???
I sometimes worry about Google. They seem to have some strange blindspots.
Today’s frustration…
They’ve launched a fantastic service called Google Arts & Culture, which contains a massive cultural database. This would be perfect on a phone when you’ve an hour to spare.
Good news is that there is a mobile app.
Bad news, you can’t search by location. Why? Who missed that off the spec?
“Back-to-school angst isn’t just for kids. To keep senior citizens up with the times, several Nordic countries are currently debating a proposal to send them back to school.”
Nordic politicians are debating making school mandatory for senior citizens
Why not the unemployed? Part-time employees?
For a generation we have spoken of “life long learning”. How do organizations, schools and governments facilitate this?
“You can’t even wish them luck.”
Here Are the Many, Many Ways Your Business Can Get in Trouble for Tweeting the Olympics
Why would you sponsor an event and then stop people talking about it?
However, what interests me is how are they policing this? What’s the process? Is there an organisation covering this? What’s the rule book?
If you know, let me know.
Pumpkin est une application mobile conviviale qui permet les paiements et remboursements spontanés et décompléxés entre amis ! Gratuit, instantané, sécurisé, Pumpkin est disponible sur iOS et Android.
Pumpkin – Le remboursement simple et instantané
Pumpkin is clever, VERY clever.
Apple Pay, the banks, PayPal and others are all trying to capture the payments space, however Pumpkin is different. They’re doing something that the others (who all seem to be replicating the image of a traditional bank) cannot, Pumpkin is social and fun, small and friendly.
Talking to the team, they say that the average user is a student, which is also clever, high values users of the near future.
Where does a city begin and where does it end? Alasdair Rae at the University of Sheffield analysed point-to-point commuter data from the ONS in an attempt to build a truer picture of the economic footprint of cities in England and Wales, one which goes beyond simple local authority boundaries
How far is too far? The distance workers commute to cities – mapped | Cities | The Guardian
As an industry we need to improve the service to remote workers. When commute maps look like this it’s impossible to consider working 5 days a week in the office.
Even when the employee makes it in, they’re too tired to work effectively.
If anyone doubted that Cloud infrastructure is a winner takes all battle it’s now time to give up on the debate and just read the sales figures…
“Its data shows that the “big four” are already much larger and growing more quickly than their nearest competitors, which include Oracle, Rackspace, Salesforce, HPE and Fujitsu.
Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft collectively saw their revenue rise by 68% during the second quarter, while the next 20 largest providers achieved 41% revenue growth.
Within the big four, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is now about three times the size of Microsoft, its nearest rival, with IBM third and Google fourth.”
Gap between biggest and smallest cloud infrastructure firms is growing
The industry is now in the position that economies of scale are going to move the leaders into a position where the level of investment required will prohibit new entrants.
Until the next wave of technology arrives!
