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jean lievens
July 26, 2014 11:43 AM
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I love receiving gifts in the form of new insights! It doesn't matter if others received the same gift years ago and I am just getting it now. If it is new to me, I get excited. It is like waking up in the morning and discovering a new room in your house. I read an article by Thomas Friedman in the New York Times this weekend titled, "And Now for a Bit of Good News." The subject of the article was the new "sharing economy," think Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, etc. In the article, Friedman calls Airbnb a "Trust Platform." To me, this weekend, this term was a gift. He is so right.
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jean lievens
July 22, 2014 12:23 PM
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You can make a case either way. On the one hand, apps like Airpnp, which launched in New Orleans last year, now have listings for hundreds of toilets around the world. Presumably, they could be useful if you're stuck in a crowd (say, at a street festival) and other options, like public bathrooms, aren't available. On the other hand, Airbnb for toilets? It sounds like a joke just writing it down.
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jean lievens
July 13, 2014 3:25 AM
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Parking can stir intense passions, especially in San Francisco, where demand for public spaces often exceeds supply. Hence the outcry over apps that let occupants of slots on streets make money by alerting other drivers that they are about to drive away.
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jean lievens
May 19, 2014 4:05 PM
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As the hype of Alibaba’s IPO continues to soar, let’s not forget Tencent and its ubiquitous mobile app, WeChat that threatens Alibaba’s future growth in mobile. Even in it’s F-1 filing, Alibaba admits that its ability to adapt to the rapidly evolving mobile commerce trend is a significant risk factor. Alibaba is genuinely concerned over Tencent’s dominant position in mobile, especially its key weapon of WeChat.
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jean lievens
April 23, 2014 2:02 PM
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It is an amazing rapid prototyping environment that is like a Hackathon on the ocean floor. In April, we had the chance to meet Eric Stackpole and David Lang at the International Space Apps Challenge.
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jean lievens
April 19, 2014 5:45 PM
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Josh Gibbs normally wouldn’t leave his apartment in Northeast Washington, D.C., pick up a loaded pizza from a restaurant in Chinatown, bike to a complete stranger’s apartment, drop off the pizza and leave without any cash exchanging hands. But last week, he did just that. And truth be told, he kind of loved it.
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jean lievens
April 9, 2014 3:44 PM
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Venture investor Chris Dixon of Andreessen Horowitz and others say they are concerned that the increasing use of mobile apps means less investment in the open web, and that this could have a negative effect on innovation. But is that true?
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jean lievens
March 12, 2014 1:33 PM
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A few days after selling WhatsApp to Facebook for US$19 billion, Jan Koum stepped into a suite at the St Regis Hotel in San Francisco to celebrate with old friends, including CEOs, reformed hackers and a few people who fell into both those camps.
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jean lievens
March 1, 2014 4:55 PM
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Some work projects are too big to tackle alone. But it's not always easy to make sure every member of your team is on the same page. When deadlines are looming, you'll need to work together on a plan, share notes, meet remotely and collaboratively edit files and documents. You'll also need a way to assign tasks and track your colleagues' and employees' progress. That's where your smartphone or tablet comes in. With the right apps, there are dozens of ways to work together — even when you're far apart. Read on for eight apps that will help you and your team share, collaborate and get things done.
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jean lievens
February 25, 2014 12:55 PM
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Much has already been said about the wisdom of paying $19 billion for a company that has no obvious or reliable source of revenue (it’s more than a number of companies listed on the S&P 500 that actually make things that are sold for a profit). I’m more interested in what it says about the nature of techinnovation in America.
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jean lievens
February 11, 2014 3:33 PM
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jean lievens
February 6, 2014 10:41 PM
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They keep disappearing. In 2012 it was BitPak. Last November it was Coinbase. Earlier in January it was CoinJar. And on Wednesday it was Blockchain.
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jean lievens
November 29, 2013 1:22 AM
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To some extent, this activity is the other side of yesterday's. In Managing food shopping can help cash-strapped families we were give advice on how to save on our shopping list. Today we are going to find out about a new app which is aiming to help people in New York make better use of the world's resources by letting users pass on their uneaten food.
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jean lievens
July 25, 2014 1:17 PM
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High schooler Nick Rubin has made tracking political sell-outs a whole lot easier.
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jean lievens
July 14, 2014 2:49 AM
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Finland's capital hopes an ambitious 'mobility on demand' system that integrates all forms of transport in a single payment network could essentially render private cars obsolete
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jean lievens
June 16, 2014 1:17 PM
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From time to time I'll have some guest posts this summer. I'm very pleased to have Jen Carey kick things off. She's been a fabulous colleague for EdTechTeacher, and an amazing live blogger at our events, and she'll be speaking at the EdTechTeacher Summit in Chicago in July. Here are her thoughts on why her school recently adopted Google Apps for Education.
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jean lievens
May 14, 2014 1:01 AM
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You can Read. Save. Share. Highlight. Comment. Collaborate. dotdotdot is much more than a digital reading app ...
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jean lievens
April 23, 2014 1:50 PM
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Smart Citizen, in short, has created a tool that advances towards an intelligent city model, seeking to connect citizens with their urban environment in an optimal manner. Barcelona, as a mobile capital, has been the city chosen by Tomás Diez's team to implement the initial phase of the project, the starting point for the creation of a global Smart community. This is also why this summer Barcelona will host the 10th Fab Labs world congress, Fab 10, co-organized by Institut de Arquitectura Avançada de Catalunya (IAAC), FabLab Barcelona, Barcelona City Council, MIT and the Fab Lab Foundation.
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jean lievens
April 17, 2014 4:16 PM
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If you've ever tried to make a tough decision with a group of people online, then you've most likely done one of two things. You may have had a discussion over email, in which case the conversation has gotten very messy and it becomes difficult to suss out exactly where everyone stands. Or, you could have tried a poll, which doesn't give the opportunity for re-working proposals based on feedback.
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jean lievens
March 19, 2014 12:56 PM
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Posts on Secret, an app that allows users to upload anonymous messages, can range from benign to inappropriate and are testing the tech industry’s appetite for sharing.
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jean lievens
March 11, 2014 5:16 PM
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Omlet, a new privacy-based social media platform launching today at SXSW, has an idea. They call it the "privacy economy." It's a notion that could really only be incubated in Silicon Valley's minor league, but it emerges from deep within the American capitalist psyche: find a problem, then make some money off of it. But, should we really be thinking of a human right as some sort of economy to be exploited for profit?
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jean lievens
February 27, 2014 11:40 AM
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We’re observing the emergence of tech that doesn’t just augment our intellect and lives, but is now beginning to automate and outsource our humanity.
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jean lievens
February 24, 2014 4:09 AM
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Facebook is preparing to put down $19 billion to acquire WhatsApp. However, the bulk of that total is comprised of common and restricted stock. To be precise, $15 billion will be equity. Beyond the fact that Facebook only has $11.5 billion in cash right now and couldn't afford an all-cash deal, there's some information in how Facebook decided to structure the deal.
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jean lievens
February 11, 2014 1:23 AM
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We're seeing some collaboration, with programs like Google Google's Open Automotive Alliance and the Genivi Alliance Linux OS, but these idealistic programs exist outside the official car industry.
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jean lievens
February 4, 2014 1:55 PM
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Facebook’s new Paper app for iPhone shows that the company can offer more than just a place to keep up with friends.
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