Archive for 2009

Straight Line thinking stops here: MIT Enterprise Forum

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009I have been invited to speak at the MIT Enterprise Forum on the 17th NovemberI am in August company following Guy Kawasaki, and John Preston from the Sloane Management School.Recently an expert panel gathered to discuss clean-techYou can book hereMy ...

Google in 5 years time: an apps company

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009And Microsoft will reinvent itself through gaming.Even though Eric Schmidt might have a different point of viewThe reason for this is that the networked society is people powered, and its complex - in fact there is a term called complexity ...

The no straight lines of city innovation

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009Shareable cities - what is a shareable cityCities are shared spaces. That’s why we gather, in part, to share basic infrastructure, to socialize, to satisfy our human instinct to congregate, to make culture together. The call for a Shareable City simultaneously ...

Is Britain ready for the networked society?

Monday, November 2nd, 2009The economist wrote an article called The Great Giveaway in which it takes a critical look at the decentralising of government into the shires. Local decision making gets passed down from central government to local government.A great deal of this ...

Music + emotion + context + discovery = networked economics [2]

Saturday, October 31st, 2009SoundCloud is fast becoming the preferred streaming host for big name musicians writes Chris Salmon. Moby is using it to air his new album. Sound cloud allows people to listen and comment to the track but also specific parts of ...

Music + emotion + context + discovery = networked economics

Friday, October 30th, 2009The interest in both the prospect of Beatles downloads and the big sales of their re-released CDs highlights an increasingly important back-catalogue business within the embattled music industry. Struggling to earn money on new artists, record labels are mining their ...

African film and networked economics

Friday, October 30th, 2009The African Film Library is an initiative showcasing the best of the African film industry – making the movies easily accessible for movie aficionados around the world.The African film industry is one of the oldest – with its roots in ...

Dont stand at the end of the queue of information stand in its flow

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009Was the advice Howard Rheingold gave recently and I think Lee Bryant gives a very erudite explanation of the issues we face transferring ourselves from a linear world to a networked world. He spoke at the Social Strategy Talk, hosted ...

Grit in the mill

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009From Euan's post about Johnnie Moore's postJohnnie Moore wrote today:All this inventive technology is being made available to just about anyone with a web connection. How does it compare for engagement and collaboration with anything inside the firewall of organisations? ...

The economics of happiness

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009Does identikit suburban life leave you cold? Do you long for your children to grow up as part of a bigger community, where there's always help close at hand? Perhaps you are just looking to live a simpler, low-carbon existence, complete ...

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