Rui Nunes’s thoughts and ideas

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There's no question about it. Broadband and data transfer capacity should be considered as basic needs for evolved Countries as it is the education or health care plans. The power of a country can be measure in the future as the percentage of high end internet users. Just imagine, being well educated and also given the full access to the biggest knowledge data center in the world is what is going to give the major advantage from one civilization to another without it. 

Yes, China, Brazil and other evolving countries have the strength of numbers, but get a look at India. Well educated and with low wages with a great internet access and capacity. It's more probable this country to be a bigger power than China or Brazil if these countries do not invest in educating their youngsters properly and provide broadband access to the big population centers.

Now, let's take a look at the so called big powers like USA or the central Europe countries? USA had a great cable and broadband implementation as also they invested dearly in education. But studies show that they invest great deals of money, but have very low productivity from this investment. This is mainly because their students in general don't realize how a great opportunity having a good education really is. And some critics even say that the educational program in ancient and not adapted to the new reality. They also have a low Mobile broadband implementation, something that England, France, Spain, Germany and Japan just to mention a few had a great deal.
Now let's take a look at Europe's education; there's no doubt about it that they have some of the best universities and sources of knowledge but they're lacking the entrepreneur feeling or the love for risk. In the past 20 years, the majority of the biggest new digital companies came from US, but pay attention to the new growth of startups at places like India, Israel, Turkey or France.

France is an atypical example, since is a big country in Europe with a lot history and a heavy background but there's no doubt about it that some of the most interesting startups had came from french entrepreneurs. They're not very buzzed but sure can make big money out of these businesses.

In short; we need education, teaching entrepreneurship, not being afraid of risk and... essentially, high end broadband and data transfer.

When I saw this interview at WebProNews with Mark Risher from Yahoo! Mail system, I couldn't stop myself thinking that this is so simple to understand that I should broadcast to everyone, even those that aren't at the e-mail marketing industry. Social networks is the buzzword at marketing right now. But email is the word that brings results, when its well done, obviously.

As Mark said it, "email is the Killer App for the Web". People use social networking to broadcast to everyone what they're doing, but use e-mail to control the personal or professional messages and to whom are sent. Although we live on a Big Brother world, and almost everything is opened wide, some things are kept personal or inclosure.

People need to have an email account even to login to a social network. People need an email to enter to whatever system that needs to send notifications or whatever. Even one of the most prolific and high growth in popularity and usage blog system in the world (Posterous) has achieved it by having a full posting capabilities through email. Email is user friendly and people are almost born knowing how to use it. So apps are good, social networks are fine but email still rocks in usage, baby! :-)