A 2.0 Tribute to the King of Pop
With the recent unfortunate loss of who some are saying was the greatest entertainer of all time, I have been intrigued by the outpouring of displays honouring the life of Michael Jackson. When a...
View ArticleGoogle’s new OS – this means war
If there was ever any doubt, now it’s official: Google is at war with Microsoft. Google’s announcement late yesterday about the launch of the Google Chrome Operating System puts Microsoft square in its...
View ArticleOnline Privacy Bill May Mark the Premature Death of the Semantic Web
As part of the PPI project that I’m currently working on with Ian and Naumi, I am quite intrigued with the emergence of a web in which users can find profound meaning and experience new levels of...
View ArticleSabermetrics as Mass Collaborators
Last week, my colleague Naumi Haque posted about basketball stats and featured the amazing Michael Lewis article about Shane Battier. There was another good article today about how technology can...
View ArticlePrivacy or Health? A choice you may have to make
With over 50,000 confirmed cases of swine flu reported in North America, it is undeniable that this virus is an epidemic. Similar to the SARS scare that occurred a few years ago, this virus has...
View ArticleSchoolTube: Kids explain their passion to technology
Earlier this month, nGenera announced a partnership with the Consortium of School Networking (CoSN) with the goal of researching the strategic use of Web 2.0 in classrooms to improve teaching and...
View ArticleThe Importance of Creating a Collaborative Enterprise
Today, the core challenge – and primary opportunity for value creation – is the utilization of complex knowledge formed through the contributions of many individuals and discrete events. This requires...
View ArticleDigital Gap & Generation Lap
While browsing the web last week, I came across a variety of news sources that were buzzing about an article that some Morgan Stanley intern had written regarding media use among youth today. I wanted...
View ArticleIntroducing Ameritocracy’s Insight on Wikinomics
As you may have noticed, Wikinomics.com has a new feature. It’s an in-text feedback system called Insight, and had a soft-launch late last week (see the persistent bar at the footer of the page)....
View ArticleThe original barcamp: another good reason to have liberal arts majors on your...
Barcamps (also commonly called unconferences) have been increasingly the rage for the past 3-4 years. Rather than peaking, the concept appears stronger than ever. In fact, it seems like my inbox has...
View ArticleGrey Flannel Suit vs. the Hawaiian Shirt
Mark Evans wrote an interesting blog post on Tuesday entitled Nine Things not to Do on Twitter which featured self-promotion, providing boring/inane personal details, and repeating tweets several times...
View ArticleHow do Yahoo! Answers get to the top of Google Search?
As we all know, Google has become rather synonymous with search on the web. What I find most perplexing about this achievement is that I often find that Google search results (as I’ve talked about...
View ArticleZappos and Amazon Sitting in a Tree…
Last week Amazon announced the acquisition of online apparel and footwear retailer Zappos. The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that Amazon shelled out an impressive $847 Million for Zappos, a...
View ArticleThree Focal Points of Open Government
Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Open Government and Innovations Conference in Washington, DC. The two-day conference was a fantastic opportunity to hear some of the leaders in open...
View ArticleThis Revolution Will Not Be Monetized
A few days ago this video, “JK Wedding Entrance Dance,” cropped up online: I’m no fan, but the mainstream appeal is clear: the video has almost 13,000,000 views. I’ll allow Wired.com to explain what...
View ArticleThe Use of Web 2.0 by Military Families
On August 6, the Department of Defense sparked a discussion on their Web 2.0 Guidance Forum (a blog used to “engage the public in considerations of web 2.0 capabilities”) asking military families about...
View ArticleCognitive Surplus and Social Media
Last week I read Tom Davenport’s piece in HBR called “Are Social Media Contributing to the decline of civilization.” The basic idea is that commentators in the future may point towards the tendency of...
View ArticleWikinomics On The Go
If you were holding off on buying a mobile phone until Wikinomics was mobile-accessible, the time to upgrade has come! Simply load up Wikinomics.com from your iPhone, Android, Pre or other smartphone...
View ArticleDavos 2010: The World is Broken
As a Fellow of the World Economic Forum, I’ve been attending the annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland for a dozen years. But I’ve never anticipated the event more than this year (Jan. 27-31). The theme...
View ArticleDigitizing Davos
Notwithstanding that some very good things will likely happen at this year’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, it’s tough to solve the world’s problems in a week. A couple of years ago the Forum’s...
View ArticleDavos: Nike and Partners Launch The GreenXchange
I mentioned in an earlier post that the World Economic Forum in Davos can be a catalyst for great ideas, and one example is the GreenXchange conceived by Nike. Nike formally launched the Xchange...
View ArticleGlobal problem solving? Stephen Harper defends the status quo
Although Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s speech on Thursday in Davos was received well, many of the delegates that I spoke with told me they thought Harper’s vision was too blinkered. With the...
View ArticleMy top ten themes from 2010 Davos, part 1
The World Economic Forum has wrapped up and the small town of Davos is being returned to the skiers. I’ve developed my top ten themes from the five-day event. I’ll post five today and five tomorrow. 1....
View ArticleMy top ten themes from 2010 Davos, part 2
The World Economic Forum has wrapped up and the small town of Davos is being returned to the skiers. I’ve developed my top ten themes from the five-day event. I posted themes 1 – 5 yesterday. Here are...
View ArticleThe capitalist crisis – who does what next?
Last week’s fraud charges against Goldman Sachs were a wake-up call that trouble still lies ahead for Wall Street. With the global economy remaining stalled, the deepening jobs crisis, a looming...
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