Archive for October, 2006

FT / Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year 2006

Friday, October 27th, 2006

The second annual FT / Goldman Sachs book award was presented in NY last night.

The FT and Goldman Sachs award is presented annually to the book that has provided “the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues”.

China Shakes the World was named Business Book of the Year 2006.

Author James Kynge has […]

Le Web 3 : December 11 - 12 2006

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

The third annual Les Blogs conference takes place on December 11-12.

Le Web 3 reflects the wider conversation this years event will embrace.

Venue for this years conference is the Salle equinoxe in Paris.

Founded by serial entrepreneur Loic Le Meur attendance have doubled year on year.

From 125 in 2004 to 450 in 20005 to 1,000 in 2006.

This […]

MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence (MIT CCI) launched this week.

While people have talked about collective intelligence for decades, new communication technologies—especially the Internet—now allow huge numbers of people all over the planet to work together in new ways. The recent successes of systems like Google and Wikipedia suggest that the time is now ripe […]

Mobil Avenue connecting Real Life and Second Life

Monday, October 16th, 2006

Mobil Avenue is the newest addition to the Fulfil Group.

Our founder introduced the new practice as follows :

Welcome to Mobil Avenue. Like many new business ideas Mobil Avenue was conceived in direct response to us ’scratching our own itch’. Over the last year our facilitation practice has received an every increasing number of requests from […]

Google acquires YouTube

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

On Monday Google announced the acquisition of YouTube for $1.65bn.

The acquisition combines one of the largest and fastest growing online video entertainment communities with Google’s expertise in organizing information and creating new models for advertising on the Internet. The combined companies will focus on providing a better, more comprehensive experience for users interested in uploading, […]