Posted in long tail on Jun 30th, 2007 No Comments »
LadybirdOriginally uploaded by Vigdis T Sometimes the power of the long tail amazes me. The picture on the side is of a ladybird. It is coming from the group “Tiny animals on fingers”. Oh yeah, I suppose this is not a picture of a ladybird but a picture of a ladybird on a finger. Of [...]
Posted in diversity, governance, research, Social Software on Jun 24th, 2007 No Comments »
The crowd can be smart and the crowd can be stupid. Part of the discussion on Brittanica deals with what the advantage is of social software and iCrowds. And when results are stupid or irrelevant. IS there for example a thing like a citizen scientist? Open source seems to work great: Linux, Samba, Apache are all [...]
Posted in workspace on Jun 21st, 2007 No Comments »
Yesterday I was at a seminar organised by the Rabobank and Veldhoen and Company. Theme of the seminar was the new way of working made possible by new and flexible office environments, new tools and new working environments. Henny van Egmond, with whom we cooperate in our research project “The future workspace” made an interesting remark about [...]
Posted in businessmodel, IPR on Jun 21st, 2007 1 Comment »
If you have invented something very interesting, you want to get a share of the action. I would. But fact is that our copyright laws and patents create a monopoly. And in general monopolies are bad for us. In this interesting article I read the case is made that Watt and the steam engine that he invented [...]
Posted in businessmodel, research on Jun 21st, 2007 No Comments »
This is a comment on the articles by Gorman and Shirky on the Brittanica blog and Many2Many. Major issue to me on this discussion is the consequences of the change we are making from the traditional publishing of information, including the accompanying business model, to the electronic publishing with the “free business model”. In this [...]
Posted in crowdsourcing on Jun 19th, 2007 No Comments »
Imagine: the oldest book in the world (I think?) being digitized through crowdsourcing. in 1637 in the Netherlands 22 man have translated the bible from the original texts to normal Dutch (they took 20 years for this). This was quite remarkable at the time since it was not normal to translate religious texts into a [...]
Posted in Social Software, workspace on Jun 17th, 2007 1 Comment »
What happens when you remove the office from the office? What happens when people have a dozen offices to chose from? What happens when we take away the coffee corner? Together with Buro Blink we have held the kick-off of the Future Workspace project with Royal Haskoning, Rabobank, IBM and Telematica Instituut. During the kick-off [...]
Posted in governance, research on Jun 14th, 2007 No Comments »
The Brittanica is doing something very daring: they are starting a discussion about web 2.0 (like what is the relation between Wikipedia and the Brittanica) on a web 2.0 platform (blogs). Sun Tzu whom is no doubt also in the Brittanica, would have taught never to fight on the enemy terrain. Like I said: daring. The opening piece [...]
Posted in IPR on Jun 12th, 2007 2 Comments »
Books by lawyers are usually very boring. I must admit, I am not objective because I am not a big fan of lawyers. It is not that I think they are not useful, but … well you got the point. But to my surprise I am reading one that is very interesting and well written at the same [...]
Posted in long tail, social networks on Jun 9th, 2007 No Comments »
Delegation of work and responsibility should be done to the people with the greatest stake in the result and who are best equipped to handle the task. This is true in organisation theory as well in the cooperation between companies and their customers. In interesting development in this area is TomTom Map Share. Here it is possible to add [...]
Posted in long tail, privacy on Jun 6th, 2007 No Comments »
Just after my last post I read this article about the way digital traces from a young and sometimes foolish past can catch up to you. In the article I mentioned above from danah boyd a hypothetical case is written where somebody gets confronted during a job interview with the fact that she has protested against the [...]
Posted in Politics, privacy on Jun 6th, 2007 No Comments »
Privacy is dead and I am afraid we are all to busy to attend the funeral. And face it, we don’t love her as much as we used to. It is amazing how much information can be found on all of us. So much that it amazes me when I can not find digital traces of [...]
Posted in long tail on Jun 5th, 2007 No Comments »
Evolution is driven by selection and attrition. The adapted ones flourish and the others wither away into oblivion. That also means that new and improved versions (of our genetically previous us for example) are build upon the DNA of the already improved version. And that is a Good Thing. As well as being the main reason we evolved in [...]
Posted in social networks on Jun 4th, 2007 No Comments »
Open Source, Wikipedia and others attract lots of people who spent lots of time in adding information and improvements. All for zilch, noppes, nada. At least financial terms… Some think this is the way of the future. All new paradigms first attract the idealistic people. In the first days of the Internet commerce was simply not done. Flame [...]
Posted in Tech on Jun 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
Sometime you see a piece of technology that really takes your breath away. A friend of mine, Maarten Vos, sent met this link about a lab site from Microsoft (yeah, they bought the company and technology …). Think of this in combination with Google Earth. Somehow they are capable of mapping all the flickr images [...]
Posted in long tail on Jun 1st, 2007 No Comments »
Don’t you get tired of choice? I do. Some time ago I had to arrange a new connection for TV, Telephone and Internet for my mother who has moved from Spain to Arnhem. In the old days you just called KPN and: presto. Now there is unlimited choice with very little help. In the end [...]
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