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The Rise of the Social Nervous System –
March 15, 2009 – 3:23 pm | View Comments

I recently published this article in Forbes.  It has generated a lot of commentary on the Internet – so I thought I would cross-post it here.   Also see Tim O’Reilly’s great response here.
No corner of …

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Video Interview with Tim O’Reilly – “Work on Stuff That Matters”
January 18, 2009 – 11:43 am | View Comments
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Last week I took a walk with Tim O’Reilly (my boss) and cameraman Kirk Walter (who has perfected the art of walking backwards with a 15 pound camera on his shoulder!). We spoke about a wide range of topics that will be released over the coming weeks. This is the first in that series, “Work on Stuff that Matters,” a subject that Tim spoke about throughout 2008. It seems even more relevant in 2009.

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Open Beats Closed : Four Principles for Doing Business in the Network Economy
January 2, 2009 – 2:49 pm | View Comments
Open Beats Closed : Four Principles for Doing Business in the Network Economy

Here are four key principles for creating a stronger business in the network economy:

Listening beats Talking
Open beats Closed
Relationships Beat Transactions
Questions beat Answers

Over the course of the next few posts I will be going into details …

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Wikitecture – What Radical Collaboration in Architecture can Teach Business
November 28, 2008 – 9:19 pm | View Comments

I  posted on Radar about Wikitecture — a new collaborative form of architecture that uses wiki principles of shared contribution, editing and decision-making within the virtual world of Second Life (disclaimer, my friend Jon Brouchoud …

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Video Interview with Kevin Kelly
November 26, 2008 – 5:51 pm | View Comments
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Kevin Kelly is a big thinker – focused on the intersection of technology, biology and culture. His current line of inquiry is around “What Technology Wants.” That is, taking technology’s point of view as a method to get a deeper understanding of what technology means in modern life, our relationship to it, and where it is headed.

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Online Communities – An Interview with Francois Gossieaux
November 14, 2008 – 12:32 pm | View Comments
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This is a cross-post from Radar:
Recently I spoke with Francois Gossieaux of Beeline Labs about the role of online communities in the enterprise.   Francois has been evangelizing the learning gained from his recent study, The …

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The Evanglist’s Toolkit – Part One
September 30, 2008 – 11:37 am | View Comments

Thanks to everyone who attended the recent webinar.  Here are the slides from that presentation.  The “slideshare” icon will allow you to download the set from Slideshare.   I would love to hear any follow …

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Instrumenting the world – The web as a sensory net
September 23, 2008 – 6:11 pm | View Comments

As Google turns 10 they posted a great summary about where collective intelligence is headed:
we’ll … see a rush of new devices customized to particular applications, and more environmental sensors and actuators, all sending and …

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