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Dear readers,
I am just back from NYC. Here is an email exclusively for you from DJ legend Loco Dice. Based in NYC, he shares with us insiders tips on bites&beats in the Big Apple. Loco Dice is the brains behind big club hits on Ovum, Cocoon and M_nus and together with Clive Henry he is […]

What a great article from McKinsey on the European economic crisis, based on Heino Fassbender’s new book Europe as an Economic Powerhouse. Below is a short summary.
Read also my previous related posts: Europe doesn’t get it and What entrepreneurs do and don’t need?

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Whilst many people blame the welfare state for sluggish performance in Europe, the […]

CNBC reports live: “Japan is growing faster than the U.S. and the EU and has now outperformed the United States and the euro zone for two straight quarters..I don’t know when that happened!”
No surprise at all: just go to Tokyo. With 20 million highly-educated, motivated, disciplined and well-organized people work on average 12 hours […]

Kirala
33 Carmine Street, New York
between Avenue Of The Americas & Bedford St
+1 212 741-2123
After a roof-top party at a friend’s house in West Village, I sleepwalked down the street until a magnetism sucked me in a restaurant called Kirara. It’s a nicely designed miniature and intimate sushi shop on Carmine Street.

Virtual worlds - Where are they going?
This year, the traditional CBS upfront presentation featured a nice SecondLife production (article about it).
Hot:
SecondLife (www.secondlife.com)
There.com (www.there.com)
Kaneva (www.kaneva.com)
DoppelGanger (www.doppelganger.com)
Coming:
Areae (www.areae.net)
Home (Sony’s Home Virtual Space on PS3)
Multiverse (www.multiverse.net)
Hipihi (www.hipihi.com)
Virtual words Ad Networks:
Surfs 2.0 (Server-based advertising system for Second Life)
Catalyst AdBoard (a Virtual-Marketing firm operating primarily out of the Second Life […]

Here are my quick notes from Future of Online Advertising conference in NYC - Day 1.Some great & wild presentations, some boring ones. Yahoo and RightMedia were good, FederatedMedia great, Google was also OK - misterious, FeedBurner passionate, Numeric Analytics super geeky in a bow-tie. Some noo noo stuff, read on! For all of you […]

(Coming oftentimes to Brussels, I notice an obvious increase in TEI (Taxi Economic Indicator) – wait-time to get a cab. TEI was especially high in Japan bubble times in the 90’s or NYC prior to 9/11. A high TEI is a sign of prosperity but in a sluggish economy could also mean artificial increase in […]

I was kindly invited to give a speech on entrepreneurship at the European Policy Center, a european NGO think-tank in Brussels. It was hosted at their Innovation Task Force, chaired by former EU commisioner Pavel Telicka. The meeting title was “Promoting Entrepreneurship and Education in Innovation” and it was held under Chatham House rule (never […]