What’s the Curriculum to Build Technology Skills?
We all know that the younger generations are known for their technology savvy, however I think we sometimes forget that there are still significant parts of that population that lack even basic com...
Alice.com: can selling online (through a new intermediary) work for CPGs?
The recession has been a challenge for CPGs – particularly as price-sensitive shoppers flock towards cheaper, private label products. With many analysts believing this flight to private label goods...
So Long, Geocities!
Today is the end of an era. Yahoo! is finally pulling the plug on GeoCities, the staple web1.0 web page publishing service for the masses. Through a modern lens any given Geocities site was like an...
Can job search be eHarmonized?
It’s not uncommon to read about how sites like LinkedIn are becoming a more important way to find jobs (or, from the other side, employees) than sites like Monster.com. The reasons for this tend to...
Road Rules: Interpreted For Social Media
Organizations are recognizing the need to expand into the social media space to better understand their customers. Stories like those of Jet Blue, Whole Foods and Dell are becoming more widespread ...
A potential framework for how different brands are using Twitter
For the last little while I’ve been looking at how different brands are using Twitter, in an attempt to come up with a framework for the various approaches being taken. Below is but one of the two...
First 100 Days: Harness the genie of citizen engagement
Reuters asked me to write a column tied to President Barack Obama’s first 100 days in office. My response: When President Obama announced last month that he’ll ask ordinary Americans to help him c...
Mobile marketing, the Blyk way
Launched in the UK in September 2007, Blyk is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) headed by former Nokia President Pekka Ala-Pietila. On the surface, their approach doesn’t sound incredibly i...
The wrong change (dot Gov)
Has the internet made great strides in democratizing politics? Dan Herman forwarded me a link to this new book, The Myth of Digital Democracy, which deals with a topic that we had recently been di...
Broad Band(ages) aren’t the Solution
I’ll start off here by introducing myself – I’m the new intern here at nGenera (which I’m pretty excited about). As you can see from my bio, a lot of my interests have to do with politics, so I th...
Keep your plants healthy (or alive) with Twitter’s help
In line with Alan’s recent post on Twittering to machines in your home, I’ve come across an interesting story on plants that tweet. With Botanicall’s, your household plants can remind you (through ...
Multi-use cell phones teens’ top technology
The cell phone continues to be the tech tool of choice for today’s teens, according to new numbers released this week by the Consumer Electronics Association in the US. Teens say technology in gen...
Social Media Marketing: long-term dividends vs. being a waste of time
Just came across an interesting post by Peter Da Vanzo on seobook.com - Is social media marketing a waste of time? If you read through the post, it’s easy to jump to the conclusion that the author ...
Rupert Murdoch’s Take on the Future of Newspapers
Recently, media magnate Rupert Murdoch delivered a series of lectures with the Australia Broadcasting Corporation’s through their annual Boyer Lecture Series. He had some interesting about the futu...
Facebook’s conundrum as they try to woo marketers
For years marketers have been hearing the famous quote that “advertising on TV is like admitting you don’t know who your customers are.” In this light, diverting such ad spend towards things like F...
Obama’s web 2.0 strategy: from campaigning to governing, part 2
Late last week I started posting my initial thoughts on how Obama can tap into the same grassroots energy and organization that propelled him to the White House to address the major challenges that...
My unforgettable trip to Bogota, Colombia
I spent the last two days in Bogota Colombia meeting with NGO’s social entrepreneurs, government and business leaders who are all working together to change Colombian society. The Fundacion Saldarr...
Be somebody…else
While i’m out with my Oompa-Loompa posse, you could be working on the next presidential speech, entering into a world of fame and fortune, or changing the world! Well… not really, but you can pre...
If the early bird always gets the worm…
What’s left for those who start their day at 10am? It seems that a quick way to get the public talking about much needed educational reform may be as simple as pushing back the time of the morning ...
Robot suit from Japan can assist elderly
As boomers reach retirement age, we face issues related to workforce knowledge retention, financing longer retirements, and healthcare provision for aging populations. While these questions are imp...
They don’t call them Smartphones for nothing
Praised for their use of social networking throughout the presidential campaign the Obama team has added yet another social media weapon to its arsenal. The following blog post caught my attention ...
Net Generation and Technology at Work
The following is from our recent Talent 2.0 research… Perhaps troubling to employers is the extent to which the Net Generation says they use work technologies to complete non-work tasks . Half (50%...
Energy Mapping
An innovative project to promote alternative energy in San Francisco has resulted in the mapping of the city’s solar installations. The Google Maps mash-up allows users to find details on residenti...
Broadcasting Yourself: How important is it to YouTube’s success?
YouTube’s corporate trademark of broadcast yourself would appear to indicate that the success of the site is driven by the long tail - a whole bunch of people creating and re-mixing content and th...
CloudContacts – Web-Enabling Your Business Card Library
If you work at a start-up (or are an investor with deep pockets), you undoubtedly get dozens of business cards every time you enter a room. If you’re like me, you go home, skim through the ones...
Wikinomics and Risk Management
The economic “risk bubble” has broken, and it’s going to take significant changes to restore long-term confidence in the financial services market. In Risk Management 2.0: Overcoming the Current Fi...
P2P Lending Double Whammy – SEC and Credit Crunch
Peer-to-peer lending sites like British-based Zopa are starting to reflect the weakness cutting through the global economy. Their U.S. operations will now be handed over directly to their Credit U...
Brain food: …internet use?
As humans begin to age, their brains start to shrink and experience reductions in cell activity. For a long time, activities such as cross-word puzzles, and (in Chinese culture) mah jong, were cons...
Wikinomics Roundup: Week in Review
Welcome back to another edition of the Wikinomics Roundup: Week in Review, where I capture in brief, some of the thoughts, discoveries, and discussions that graced the blog throughout the past wee...
Gaming the multi-party electoral system
We’ve been talking a lot about the Webification of the Obama campaign, but there are also some interesting things going on in our own backyard. As Canadians gear up for our own Federal election thi...
Poptent: A new community for crowdsourced advertising
As TechCrunch reported on Wednesday, an interesting new company has moved into beta launch mode - Poptent, a “crowdsourcing platform” for the creation of advertisements. Why I put crowdsourcing in ...
NHS offers choice and asks for your feedback
Choice is a foreign concept in most health care systems around the world. Sick patients are advised on the appropriate course of treatment by their doctor, referred to a specialist where appropriat...
Guest Blogger Steve Ressler on Government 2.0 & The Rise of Informal Networks
This guest blog is by Steve Ressler, founder of GovLoop.com, a social network connecting the government community. Mr. Ressler is also a contributor to the nGenera Gov 2.0: Wikinomics, Government,...
Transforming politics: Eric Schmidt, CEO Google
Here’s a very interesting interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt regarding the impact of online tools on political campaigns and the political process. Consistent with Google’s mission of organizin...
Is Digg like the “cool table” in high school?
How often do you see the little digg logo on people’s blog posts? In most cases, it’s just a meek attempt at some attention…and hardly ever works. Appearing on digg can certainly help a blog. This ...
Dilbert mashup: August 29th 2008
For those of you that might not be up-to-date on your Miocene knowledge, Aquitanian is the first age of the Miocene Epoch, which dates back something like 23 million years ago. If you think I woul...
Rabies isn’t all bad
Once a rabies virus begins to affect the brain, the transfer of infection from neuron to neuron is almost always fatal (only one known case of survival). However, it turns out that scientists have ...
Forcing Governments to use Open Source
Bravo to Quebec’s open source software association for suing the provincial government for not tendering software purchases. Turns out the government used a rule that allows them to avoid tenders w...
A picture made of 1000 words
We’ve blogged before about visualization tools like ManyEyes and Swivel (here, here, and here), but I thought I’d reiterate the point of how powerful and readily available these visualizations are....
Democracy Digitized
Building on Will’s posts about Obama using text messaging to announce his running mate (which I thought was brilliant), there is a great video on the BBC web site documenting how democracy has beco...
Wikinomics Roundup: Week in Review
Welcome back to another edition of the Wikinomics Roundup: Week in Review, where I capture in brief, some of the thoughts, discoveries, and discussions that graced the blog throughout the past wee...
When a phone is a bridge between worlds
I’ve been looking into new ways that people can use mobile devices. Both Google and Apple have offered big prizes for people who develop applications for their Android and iPhone platforms. There a...
If you want to LinkIn with me, you better hurry.
I blogged earlier about how I was running out of space for contacts on LinkedIn. You see, after you have 500 contacts, the actual number is no longer listed on your profile — instead, it says 500+....
Want to know Obama’s VP Pick? Send him a Text
One of the most hotly anticipated political news these days is Obama’s coming announcement of who he has picked as his Vice Presidential Nominee. But while most politicians would deliver such news-...
Wikinomics in the Blogosphere
What are people saying about Wikinomics this week across the blogosphere? Daniell Pritchett’s blog, sharing at work, talks about seven great communities for sharing for collaboration in the workpla...
Wisdom of crowds + translation – update!
I wrote a few months ago about Facebook’s translation initiative launched to get Facebook translated into many, if not all, languages around the world. I was in a meeting with Don Tapscott the othe...
Astronomy 2.0
An article on CNN.com last week tells about a 25 year old teacher from the Netherlands who a whole new of celestial objects. The amazing thing is that she has no formal training in astronomy or ast...
Levelling the educational playing field
For those who have not yet heard, Don and I are working on a sequel to Wikinomics that will lift the lid on a wide range of topics that we did not really get to in wikinomics 1.0. So, for example, ...
Living the Dream with Google Docs
Google Docs are not new. All the same, last week Caleb, Will, Jude, Ben and I decided to try using them for a project at the office. Up until then, I had only ever used Google Spreadsheets as an in...
Hacking the hack - missed opportunity or just doing the “right” thing?
Late last week, newly-famed MIT students Zack Anderson, R.J. Ryan and Alessandro Chiesa were court-ordered to cancel their Sunday presentation entitled “Anatomy of a Subway Hack” at DEF CON , the w...
How efficient is synchronous communication?
There always seems to be some debate as to how synchronous communications tools like instant messaging affect productivity. The younger Net Generation workers in the office tend to love it – prefe...
Sorry Carr, the Cloud Looks Silver from Here
Nicholas Carr is a well-respected thought leader who we have agreed and disagreed with in the past (see here and here). A few weeks ago, he posted The Cloud’s Not So Silver Lining as a response to ...
Olympic medals reflect economic clout
It’s still early in the Games, but already one can see Asia — China and South Korea in particular — racking up an impressive number of medals, reflecting their growing economic clout. Of the top t...
Measuring Government 2.0
I got an email a few weeks back from a freelancer who wanted some information related to government 2.0, notably how do you measure it’s value, success or progress, i.e. show me the metrics. His ta...
Mass collab around Toronto explosion
Last night, there was a huge explosion at propane factory here in Toronto. News stories here, here, and here. As ususal, the Internet turned out to be the best place to keep up to date on the explo...
Dating 2.0 – Love at first sight?
So of course there is now the interesting phenomenon of online dating sites. These communities, like lavalife, have become commonplace and are a great way to connect people looking for love. I have...
The netGuide
With over one hundred million unique websites on the Internet it’s hard not to feel lost. As casual, and even sophisticated Internet users, there is often a major disconnect between the tools and ...
Agriculture 2.0: Server Farms
Lost in the quest for more data is the ever increasing cost of building and cooling server farms. A great article in Business Week proposes the of building a massive server farm in a small fishing ...
The Future of Mobile…Is Disposable???
What do you think of when you think BIC? Ballpoint pens? Single-use razors? Well, if BIC’s leadership has anything to say about it, that is soon going to change. Recently, BIC launched a mobile ph...
Wikinomics Roundup: Week in Review
Welcome back to another edition of the Wikinomics Roundup: Week in Review, where I capture in brief, some of the thoughts, discoveries, and discussions that graced the blog throughout the past wee...
Sinking, Thinking, and Looking Sharp
I was looking at the Cool Software community website where members post information about new software companies and then vote on whether or not they like it. One of the websites they as “cool” w...
Social Media for the Anti-Social
I’ve been trying to immerse myself in the world of social media over the last few months, and it has been quite an eye-opening experience. As I’ve navigated this remarkably inter-connected little w...
United Nations: The Mecca of Innovation Resources
Don’t ask me how it happened. I was just planning to check my email last night, but for some reason I ended up on the United Nations website. I spent a couple hours searching through the informatio...
Britain From Above
The BBC has announced an upcoming tv special: Britain From Above. The special makes use of aerial photography and computer visualization to show the flow of traffic, the use of telephone networks a...
Wikipedia: Living History for the Rest of Time?
It occured to me that in one hundred, or even one thousand or more years, historians are going to use Wikipedia to figure out what it is that we thought of ourselves. Apparently we like Pokemon. My...
My space: It’s 4 x 6 with bars
After reading Ian’s post last week about how in the new age of connectivity the lines between what is work related and what is personal are not only blurred, I was reminded of an article along the ...
Wordscraper and McDowell’s restaurant
Scrabulous has, of course, been removed from Facebook. It seems that Hasbro had some problem with EXACTLY copying Scrabble. Couldn’t they make the J worth 7 instead or something? Anyway, since it ...
Helping Teachers Out
I would like to take time now to apologize to many of you teachers out there. In my first blog post, I hopped up on my soapbox and condemned all academia. That was a little unfair. Growing up with ...
Is Law 2.0 possible?
Many enterprises are eager to take their first steps with Web 2.0 technologies. However, many of our [nGenera Insight’s] clients have cited legal as a major barrier to implementing these new techno...
Google Gets Icy Cuil Reception From New Browser
If you’ve been able to get through the high traffic loads on cuil.com (pronounced “cool”, meaning “knowledge” in Gaelic) today, you’ve been one of the first to use the world’s newest search engine ...
Wikinomics Roundup: Week in Review
Welcome back to another edition of the Wikinomics Roundup: Week in Review! In this week’s roundup, I will capture in brief, some of the thoughts, discoveries, and discussions that graced the blog...
China’s net nation
Interesting statistics announced today by the China Internet Network Information Center (CINIC) that 253 million people in the country are now online, meaning China now has the world’s largest num...
Great blog…now in convenient book form
One of my favorite bloggers has published his “best of” in a soon to be released book. Visit the blog when you have some time to kill (not that that the typical Wikinomics blog reader ever slacks o...
Another great piece on the literacy debate
There is a great debate raging all over the blogosphere, and more traditional media for that matter, in regards to the effect the Internet is having on the “wiring” of our brains, and more specific...
Run Linux? Save the World, Please.
Last week, O’Reilly Media hosted the 2008 Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, Oregon. The conference is described as “the crossroads of all things open source, bringing together the best, b...
The Internet grows past one trillion pages, a couple of them are useful
Jesse Alpert and Nissan Hajaj just shared this discovery over at the Google Blog. The numbers are staggering: in ‘96, the Internet contained ~26 million pages, then the count hit a billion in the y...
Sean Moffitt talking about ‘from Mass to Grass’
A couple of months ago Mike Dover wrote about our friend Sean Moffitt (a.k.a. agent wildfire), who was dealing with an unusual problem - he was approaching the 5,000 person limit on his Facebook fr...
No, It’s not a Fabric. It’s an Idea-gora.
The other day I found myself perusing the New York Times like I’m apt to do anytime I need a few minutes to de-focus and relax. The third most emailed article of the day, “If You Have a Problem, As...
Guest Blogger: Haydn Shaughnessy on Design and Wikinomics
This is Haydn Shaughnessy’s first Guest Blog on the wikinomics site, focusing on the issue of design in relation to wikinomics. You can check out his gallery of Innovative Contemporary Artists here...
Facebook and Libel
An article in today’s Financial Times describes how a private citizen has been ordered to pay £22,000 for starting a group called “Has Mathew Firsht lied to you?” From the article: In a legal rulin...
MLB uses Web 2.0 to improve officiating
A few weeks ago, my colleague Ben Letalik wrote about the MLB in his weekly Wikinomics Report Card. This Tuesday, the MLB announced that it began installing IBM software “to exploit the next genera...
NIMBY Stops Powerplant, Saves Mississauga Lakefront
Yesterday, the Ontario Government announced that they wouldn’t be putting a gas-fired generator on a Mississauga Lakeview site after a citizen developed waterfront plan was enthusiastically endorse...
Why is the mashable advertising contest random?
For those that might not know about it, mashable is a great site for social networking news. Today they announced a nifty little “contest”: they are giving away one full month of free advertising, ...
Comments: valuable contributions or ramblings of the inebriated homeless?
A little while ago I wrote a two-part series called “Looking into the blogosphere through a sporting lens” (part 2 is here). The purpose of the series was to look at some questions underlying a Cos...
Dilbert mash up: July 15th 2008 (+ bonus Hancock versus Hellboy)
As always, you can check out the original (and all the other mash ups) at www.dilbert.com. To celebrate my 50th mash up on the Dilbert platform, I thought that it was about time that I started bra...
Radiohead again leaves us thinking: Did they just do that?
A darling of the Wikinomics blog (1,2,3), Radiohead has impressed before, and with their latest video for House of Cards, they do so again. Maintaining their promise not to make any conventional m...
If Google ran the world
The folks at the Prometheus Institute* recently ran a great post on “if the US Government were run by Apple…” It’s pretty humorous (and either slightly sad given what doesn’t happen despite the ava...
A picture is worth 1,000 words
We’ve all heard it before. The nay-sayers doubting the benefits of social technology. However, Jive Software CMO Sam Lawrence has posted a series of 10 charts on his blog Go Big Always illustrating...
Dilbert mash up: July 14th 2008
As always, you can check out the original (and all the other mash ups) at www.dilbert.com. If these themes keep up I’m going to have to add “random violence” to the tag cloud.
The Wikinomics Roundup: Week in Review
Whether you’re a regular reader, or just pop in occasionally, it’s not always easy to keep up with our Wikinomics blog content. With this in mind, we have created the Wikinomics Roundup: Week in R...
Web 2.0 To The Rescue
Most of us use popular social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter for staying in touch with friends and meeting new people, but have you ever heard of someone using one of the...
Yahoo! is the B.O.S.S
On Wednesday Yahoo! made a pretty cool announcement: Today, Yahoo! Search is taking another step in extending the Yahoo! Open Strategy with the launch of Yahoo! Search BOSS, a web services platform...
Your Virtual Butler
One hundred and seventy-two million, three hundred and thirty-eight thousand; this is the number of unique websites on the Internet, as estimated by Netcraft, a well-respected UK based company. Th...
Guest blogger Stewart Mader on Wiki ROI #2: Collect and Refine Tacit Knowledge to Improve Efficiency
Editor’s note: this is the third post in a multi-part series from Stewart Mader, author of Wikipatterns. You can check out some of his other work at Grow Your WIki, and the first two parts of t...
Wild speculation: reddit is run by some very smart people
A few weeks ago, the popular news aggregator site Reddit went open source. This struck me as pretty surprising, as I know that reddit is competiting with Digg, and I was under the impression that b...
Google abandonware becomes open source
It appears that Google has discontinued its use of Browser Sync, an extension for Firefox that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, an...
Sneak Peak at the Absolutely Terrible Facebook Redesign!
A friend of mine informed me that you can check out the new facebook profile layout early (but you need to install the developer application to see it) — it goes live on the 17th of this month. In ...
Showtime Presents: The Ultimate 2.0 Fan Experience
I’m going to come right out and say it: people can get a little obsessive sometimes. And premium cable movie network Showtime has wisely decided to harness the power of their shows’ loyal fans by a...
A New Age in Customer Service
A few days ago, an article written in the Boston.com business column told a story about Comcast responding to a complaint by C.C. Chapman about his service. While watching his HDTV, the reception s...
Microsoft has a new approach to Vista… Putting makeup on the pig
An article on ZDnet comments about Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston yesterday. Microsoft executives explain that they will launch a 300 million dollar ad campaign to help clean V...
The Debate on YouTube
YouTube has entered the political arena once again. This September, New Zeland’s TVNZ and YouTube will partner to launch a website allowing people to submit video questions for the 49th New Zealand...
Google ads and the corporate weasel en espanol
Interesting story in the Wall St. Journal about language training company Rosetta Stone suing a competitor who has bought Google Ad words that encourage users to visit sites such as “Don’t Buy Rose...
Interview with Dipity CEO and co-founder Derek Dukes
What interests me most about the Internet is that it is a reflection of the physical world, and the same people, information, and problems inhabit both worlds. In the physical world it’s easy to ...
Wikinomics in the Blogosphere
What did people say about us this week? Andrew Jones of the Tall Skinny Kiwi talks about how the Wikinomics of transparency, generosity, and trust relates to the Bible and Christian> As mentioned ...
Dilbert mash up: July 7th 2008
Please note that the wikinomics blog team in no way supports violence towards those who suggest open source projects. As always, you can check out the original (and all the other mash ups) at www....
Obama and social networking
We’ve posted several times about the Obama campaign. See here, here, here, and here. Senator Obama and his team have done a really good job engaging with the electorate via LinkedIn. As of today, h...
Universal power adapter way overdue
Item number two on Dell’s IdeaStorm (a popularity contest for new suggestions) is to standardize laptop power cables. Why do we have such a proliferation of power cords when we could improve effic...
Jeff tweets “it’s not you, it’s me”
Apparently Facebook and Myspace are ruining my generation’s ability to form relationships. That’s a relief, I always figured I was just really selfish. Apparently not: Dr Himanshu Tyagi, a psychiat...
Wikinomics Report Card: Blizzard Entertainment
Can the unstoppable gaming juggernaut continue to WoW with Wikinomics? This week’s edition of the Wikinomics Report Card will profile Blizzard Entertainment, the creators of World of Warcraft and o...
Google Expands Contextual Advertising
Last week, The New York Times covered a new project by Google: having targeted, text-based advertisements that are influenced by past user search history. With this new program, a user who makes se...
The Obama file: can he really deliver change?
He’s mobilized youth to previously unprecedented levels, shattered fund-raising records with an Internet-enabled army of small-dollar donors, and made many impassioned calls for sweeping changes i...
George A. Romero Unrealistic About Zombie Impact on Web 2.0
I just watched George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead last weekend. For those who haven’t seen it, it’s your typical zombie apocalypse movie – the reanimated dead wreck havoc, attempting to eat the l...
Dilbert mash up: July 4th 2008
Now I’m REALLY starting to think things being thrown at other people is a dominant theme - see here, here, and here. Or if you prefer, you can check out the original - and all the other mash ups ...
Dilbert mash up: July 3rd 2008
Things being thrown at heads seems to be an emerging theme here… you can check out the original, and all the other mash ups, at www.dilbert.com.
My Facebook birthday
I had a birthday recently. It went well; a pretty relaxing long weekend with lots of well-wishers. The birthday wishes got me thinking though – a birthday provides a good opportunity to review one’...
Google, Mobile, and You … Oh My!
It’s no secret that Google sees mobile phones as an emerging frontier for search; as smart phones (and carriers’ data plans) become more sophisticated, it becomes possible to interactively exchang...
Big Tech Companies Form Patent Alliance, and are Corporations the Future of Government?
Tech companies have long suffered from patent trolls: companies that bulk-buy cheap, unused patents from bankrupt companies, wait until someone becomes successful at doing something similar, and th...
New open source cell phone: Imagine the possibilities
An article on ZDNet announces that the Openmoko Neo Freerunner will debut in markets July 4th. This new phone will run a linux based operating system and is entirely open source. It will include Wi...
Wikipedia - from ‘anyone can edit’ to ‘any reasonable person can join us in writing and editing…’
I have to credit Nicholas Carr’s blog for pointing me towards this interesting little article by Jimmy Wales, founder of wikipedia. For a long time, wikipedia promoted itself as “the free encyclope...
Guest Blogger Stewart Mader on Wiki ROI #1: From ‘Interruptivity’ to Productivity
Editor’s note: this is the second in a multi-part series from Stewart Mader, author of Wikipatterns. You can check out some of his other work a Grow Your Wiki, and his first post on the wikinomics ...
Dilbert mash up: July 1st 2008
Let’s just say it’s in honour of Canada Day. You can check out all the other mash ups, and the original, at www.dilbert.com.
Could the body be more important than the head AND the long tail?
The Harvard Business Review recently published an interesting article called “Should You Invest in the Long Tail?” - to summarize the findings the answer would be a definitive “no”, which is based ...
Wikinomics in the Blogosphere
Our weekly look at what people are saying about us: Wikinomics has won the Highams Business Technology Book of the Year award. One of the judges, Mark Samuels, blogs about the decision with some k...
An interesting social network combo: Ning’s Andreessen joins Facebook’s Board of Directors
Facebook, as almost everyone knows, is a social networking site that has quickly emerged to be the market leader with the tag line “Facebook is a social utility that connects you with the people ar...
Training Medical Professionals with Video Games
Business week is running a great slide show of screen shots from Zero Hour: a video game in which you play an EMT responding to a biological weapons attack in downtown Chicago. Players must diagnos...
Dilbert mash up: June 27th 2008
Check out the original, and all the other mash ups, at www.dilbert.com. Who knows - maybe this one will spark another Friday Dilbert mash up war.
In 2009 Chrysler Will Offer Wi-Fi in Their Cars: Good or Bad?
A report in the LA Times and on ZDNet.com explains that Chrysler will offer Wi-Fi service via their UConnect web service in many of next year’s Dodge, Chrysler, and Jeep models. The system will cos...
Dilbert mash up: June 26th 2008.
You can check out the original at www.dilbert.com.
Dilbert mash up: June 25th 2008
You can check out the original, and all the other mash ups, at www.dilbert.com.
Intoducing our first guest blogger: Stewart Mader
Several weeks ago we invited people to contact us if they were interested in being a guest blogger on wikinomics (and importantly, if they had an interesting story to tell). Today we are pleased to...
Virtual Chemistry
I came across this great post at the SLED (Second Life in EDucation) Blog: If you’ve ever seen a floating molecule in Second Life, chances are it was created by Dr. Andrew Lang, a mathematical phys...
Dilbert mash up: June 24th 2008
Like many of my colleagues (which helps explain the temporarily low blog post count), I’ve been busy at our Enterprise 2.0 conference today - so I thought this mash up would be appropriate. As al...
The End of Capitalism
At nGenera’s Gov 2.0 conference at Harvard last week, I had the opportunity to meet Ben Rattray. Ben founded Change.org, a Facebook-like social-networking site specifically designed for engaging pe...
Toward a complex adaptive intelligence community
We’ve written a fair amount about Intellipedia on this blog. Many people see it as one of the premier examples of enterprise 2.0 innovation.Not many people realize, however, that Intellipedia is no...
Dipity Timeline Created
Hello Big Brother
As my colleague Lawrence notes in his latest blog, the potential abuse of personal data shared by users in social networking spaces is of increasing concern. But key to the discussion is the potent...
Dilbert mash up: June 23rd 2008
As always, you can check out the originals, and all the other mash ups, at www.dilbert.com… and you never know, a few more might even pop up here in the comments box as the day goes on.
Generation X Saves the World
I just finished reading Dan Gordinier’s book “X Saves the World.” We’ve mentioned it a couple of times on the blog (here and here), so as I set it down I thought, ‘well this was a pretty darn good ...
It’s All Coming Together… In Your Living Room
You can get a great media center for about 20 dollars. Sure, it’s ‘illegal,’ but not in the way you might think. I’m talking about modding an old XBOX, and loading it up with XBOX Media Center (XBM...
Wikinomics Report Card: Major League Baseball
How Does America’s PASTime Fare in the World of Wikinomics? Hello Wikinomics blog readers! I’m a new summer student with the Wikinomics team. I have decided to do things a little differently and ...
McCain and Obama will tweet it out in Twitter debate
That’s right. Starting tonight, a designated representative of both of the major presidential campaigns are going to participate in a free-wheeling debate on technology and government, moderated by...
Dilbert mash up: June 20th 2008
As always, you can check out the original (and all the other mash ups) at www.Dilbert.com. The site is having a couple of issues right now, but the new tool that enables group mash ups is partic...
What movie speaks for your generation?
As part of my research on Net Generation leadership, I’m reviewing a lot of interesting books on the subject. I’m part way through Motivating the “What’s in it For Me?” Workforce: Manage Across the...
The Anatomy of the Enterprise Octopus
If this picture of the enterprise octopus doesn’t encourage you to read Sam Lawrence’s post on enterprise technology (how it’s moving from file-centric to people-centric), I don’t know what will… w...
Blogging from Harvard
The Gov 2.0 team is in Cambridge this week hosting our Government 2.0: Wikinomics ,Government and Democracy community at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Rather than try and parse out som...
More news about the death of email
Here is a great article on the death of email. While it is a popular subject, Dave Pollard does an outstanding job of providing valuable advice on when to avoid email altogether. Thanks to our frie...
Pornography: The Good, The Bad and The Creative
The battle continues to protect children from pornography. This week an AT&T Press Release announced a collaborative effort between AT&T and a variety of nonprofit groups such as the Internet Keep ...
Dilbert mash up: June 18th 2008
You can check out the original, and all the other mash ups, at www.dilbert.com. Also click on the dilbert tag to see all my other mash ups over the last few months - guaranteed to make you laugh o...
Entertainment Evolved
“You can take any core human technology and kind of understand it as an extension of the human body. So in some sense, cars are an extension of our legs, television extends our eyesight, telephon...
Join the conversation on ‘Who needs analyst firms anyways?’
For readers that might have missed it last week, I just wanted to highlight the very interesting conversation going on in regards to Naumi’s post Who needs analyst firms anyways? There have been ab...
