Short takes 7 August

Handbook of Service Science (Springer) http://tinyurl.com/3798ybl Service Science Progress and Directions (Spohrer) http://www.slideshare.net/spohrer/service-science-progress-and-directions-20100620 International Conference Exploring Service Science (Switzerland) http://iess.unige.ch/   http://www.slideshare.net/ServicesScience/iess-10-welcome Public Service Delivery (EU) COCKPIT  http://www.cockpit-project.eu/ Ecoblocks (WW) Harrison Fraker UCBerkeley  http://www.slideshare.net/geoff848/harrison-fraker-ecoblocks Grand Challenge Summit (US) USC http://www.naegrandchallengessummit2010.org/ Energy and Climate Change Network (Greece) http://www.kepa.uoa.gr/PROMITHEAS_general.htm Nano Progress (Lux Populi) Green Science and Tech Research  …

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City & university shared services

Shared Service and Shared Governance: Ever since I mentioned that the City of San Jose, CA and the university SJSU have shared service and shared governance of their libraries at the Martin Luther King Library in San Jose — I have been finding out that other places also/already do the same shared service and shared …

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Amazon and IBM are ‘cloud champions,’ report says

By Jon Brodkin  — July 15, 2010 03:47 PM ET Network World – Amazon and IBM are the “cloud champions” according to a new report, but Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Red Hat and VMware are also among the list of heavyweights in the emerging cloud computing field. Amazon cloud uses FedEx instead of the Internet to …

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