If you do not know what is about, is a marketing event from Microsoft.
Why did I attend?
This time I was curious to see how convergence and competition are shaping the market.
Read the minutes, make up your mind, and maybe you will have ideas on how to apply some of the concepts from this conference.
The main ideas? Approaches about how people interact with technology.
No, not on software development- on other business and non-business activities.
How the addition of WolframAlpha as a search engine could complement Google services to create a new market.
Services? Access and structure knowledge. And a new form of knowledge management.
Two days in London- bureaucracy, meetings, updates.
And a tons of new ideas.
But, most importantly, almost a different town… just the balmy weather? 
Getting Around The World- a blog on (new)media, politics, technology… and their impact on personal and business life
How I did start doing my social networking activities online- a step-by-step plan spanning 2006-2009
XXI Century libraries and search engines
Thursday, May 21st, 2009XXI century encyclopedias and knowledge processing.
How Google, WolframAlpha, Wikipedia, and Eurostat process a query.
Or: models of knowledge processing and distribution.
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