Web 3.0 and Social Dance: The Viennese Waltz

This feels like from another world, another time, but it actually isn’t. You can still dance the Viennese waltz, and it is a quintessential social dance. Here’s a scene from Stanford’s 2011 Viennese Ball: And one from 2009:

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Chris Lauwers, CTO of Avistar (Part 6)

SM: Interesting, very interesting. I’m interested in also exploring the implications of collaboration/cloud-based collaboration outside of the enterprise. Is that something that you can talk to? Have you been following the evolution outside of the enterprise?

From Croatia to Silicon Valley, Cleaning Up The Environment: Neno Duplan, CEO of Locus Tech (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: In 1997 you recognized the potential for the Internet to be the front end interface to large amounts of data. What was your next step? Neno Duplan: That led to the beginning of Locus, which I founded in 1997. We had more domain expertise than anyone else in the world. I then set out

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Jan. 5: 110th FREE Online 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

  Entrepreneurs are invited to the 110th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, January 5, 2012, 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain constructive feedback and she’ll answer any of your questions. Others can “attend” to

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Chris Lauwers, CTO of Avistar (Part 5)

SM: Why do you need that? I guess what I’m trying to understand is Skype-to-Skype calls are very easy. Everybody knows how to do Skype-to-Skype video calls. Where do you come into the picture? CL: It goes back to the user experience and how easy is it for users to manage the sessions, initiate the

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Web 3.0 and Social Dance: Foxtrot

The foxtrot is danced as a competition dance as part of the ballroom dance ensemble, along with the waltz, tango, swing, and quickstep. However, I like the foxtrot as a very fun, swinging social dance. One of my all-time favorites … Here’s what it looks like in competition: Here’s how simple it is: And here’s

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From Croatia to Silicon Valley, Cleaning Up The Environment: Neno Duplan, CEO of Locus Tech (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What types of companies were generating the large amounts of environmental data? Neno Duplan: Consulting engineering firms working for Chevron or oil companies. Almost every gas station on every corner can be considered a contaminated site because almost every underground storage container at those gas stations has leaked at some point.