Posted in social networks, Social Software, workspace on May 29th, 2007 No Comments »
The last 10 year we have created much more technology than we are using today. We have invested enormous amounts of money in mobile broadband structures and what is the most important mobile application today: texting (or txtspk), the mobile application that is the most basic in mobile technology. We are investing heavily into fiber [...]
Posted in long tail, social networks, workspace on May 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Maybe, given other choices, you could have been another Steven Spielberg. Maybe even better. Steven Spielberg became Steven Spielberg because he made the choices early on that were fitting with his talent. And since in a short tailed world success breeds success he became one of the most successful directors since producers are inclined to [...]
Posted in workspace on May 25th, 2007 1 Comment »
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. Many will recognize this as the opening of Dickens his book “A tale of two cities”. Dickens meant the time of the french revolution with all the positive and negative turmoil. Looking how fast the landscape of work is changing I sometimes get the [...]
Posted in Social Software on May 24th, 2007 No Comments »
One of the most interesting developments of the moment is I think Crowd-sourcing. In Crowd-sourcing you outsource work to un undefined number of people in an open call. Amazon for example has created a function called “Amazon Mechanical Turk“. The idea here is that tasks that humans can do easily (is this a picture of [...]
Posted in workspace on May 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
I came across a fascinating article today that describes how a famous economic historian is thaught a lesson about the history of World War II. Niall Ferguson has written some books about “what if” scenarios is history: what if Gorbachov would not have existed etc. He recently played a bit with a computer game called [...]
Posted in Politics, workspace on May 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
Yesterday we had a meeting for the political party I am active in (the PVDA in Arnhem). The subject was participation of citizens in the decisions the local government is taking. Often decisions effect the direct environment of the citizen itself. It is amazing how little trust people can have in the capabilities of groups [...]
Posted in Politics, Social Software, Uncategorized, workspace on May 20th, 2007 No Comments »
This is my first entry in this blog. This is my first blog. Why am I joining the countless number of people that are blogging? Do you care? Should you? For me this blog is a way of structuring my thinking about social software. I believe that social software (wiki’s, blogs, decision market) is changing [...]
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