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You Owe Me One. Favor Trading and the Social Contract
December 3, 2008 – 10:55 pm | View Comments
You Owe Me One.  Favor Trading and the Social Contract

In the course of writing an upcoming post I was reminded of an interaction I had with a senior executive in Bangkok about two years ago.   We were on the 64th floor of a …

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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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Technology will not save the world. People with vision will.
October 28, 2008 – 11:52 pm | View Comments
Technology will not save the world. People with vision will.

Implicit in any proclamation that technology will solve big problems (in the world or in our businesses) is that first a human being, or group of us, will conceive, organize, develop and then use technology …

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Pirates and Poohbahs Unite!
October 15, 2008 – 9:14 pm | View Comments
Pirates and Poohbahs Unite!

Yesterday I was lucky enough to attend a Forrester round table on the future of the Social Web put together by Jeremiah Owyang and hosted by SAP (thanks to both for an incredible job).  It …

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Twitter from Wachovia; save our ship
October 8, 2008 – 9:43 pm | View Comments
Twitter from Wachovia;  save our ship

I stumbled on the Wachovia Twitter page.   It is strange to read these little tweets from a sinking ship in real time.
On Sept. 18 we hear that all is well at Wachovia:
CEO Bob Steel posts …

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