over the weekend the american industrial rock band band Nine Inch Nails released their new album titled ‘Ghosts I-IV‘ via their own website. With this release the Nine Inch Nails - lead by their outspoken frontman Trent Reznor - join a number of artists (Radiohead, Madonna, …) who, after being freed from long running contracts […]

over the past two days i have been attending an workshop on the ‘The Socio-Economic Impact of Social Computing: validation and policy options’ organized by the Institute for Prospective Technology Studies (IPTS) in Sevilla, Spain. The IPTS is one of the 7 research institutes of the Joint research directorate of the European Commission and researches […]

Professor Sugata MItra put up a computer-screen in a hole in a wall in some Indian villages. He attached the keyboard and touchscreen next to it and just let it be. Hundreds of childers would come and started to interact with the computer, even when they didn’t know any english. They learned parts of it […]

PICNIC ‘07 has started! Knowledgeland hosts several events and has sent scouts to others. Keep this blog open for the latest updates! 

Dick Hardt is founder and CEO of Sxipper, an online identity service. Hardt has a very entertaining speech about the next identity. First, the definition of identity. If we want to the answer what Identity is, we ask GYM: Google, Yahoo , Microsoft. That generates tons of results. Ask the German Wikipedia, and you get […]

Jeff Clavier is a succesfull venture capitalist with French origins.  He points out that the market for investing is much more difficult in 2007 than in 2004. Less and less talented people are available and the competion is getting much stronger. But he still invests. There are still a lot of offline inefficiences, large pockets […]

How do creative professionals earn their money? That is, simply stated, the main question in the research project titled ‘Creative Business Models’. From January 2007 until October 2007 Knowledgeland will be studying the added value of creativity and unravel business models behind successful creative products. Why has the iPod become a tremendous global success? Is […]