Archive for 2010

A compassionate society understands fairness

Wednesday, October 27th, 2010Twenty years ago, Ernst Fehr had a seemingly sensible idea – that a deep-seated human preference for fairness might play an important role in economics. He writes,A substantial number of people exhibit social preferences, which means they are not solely ...

Our 2.0 destiny with data

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010Refined Data, is the black gold of the 21st Century (SMLXL posts on data) something we have been writing about since 1995. We even wrote a book about it, as did Tony Fish (My Digital Footprint) So now The World ...

GrowVC launches in China

Thursday, October 21st, 2010Grow VC & C2I Ventures Launch National Funding Network For China.early stage startups in China into the “crowdfunding” arena and also aims to provide a strong startup support infrastructure that encourages startup culture. The launch of an exclusive funding network ...

We educate kids in batches

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

The Futures Agency takes off

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010I am proud to be part of the Futures Agency today which launches officially today. Gerd writes,Today I am delighted to officially announce my new company, The Futures Agency (TFA). TFA is based in Basel, Switzerland and is currently comprised ...

Mobile enterprise in Latin America

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010For two months this year, I travelled through Latin America on a speaking tour with Blackberry called, The Blackberry Collaboration Forum.My topic, was how mobile communications could enable businesses to be more effective, more engaged, to work smarter and leaner. ...

The Do Lectures, Paula Le Dieu

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010The Do Lectures and The Do Village BlogSMLXL on copyright, open source, innovation, culture

The problem with Murdoch’s media

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010Henry Porter discusses some of the key criteria as to why Vince Cable has such an important contribution to  make in controlling total media and therefore political power currently wielded by Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp. This follows on ...

tattoos, identity and meaning [2]

Saturday, October 9th, 2010I am writing this post as my old friend David O'Hanlon asked a question to my post on Tattoo's, identity and meaning that I think requires a somewhat in-depth response. Patrick Skinner is a PHD student at Cambridge University, his ...

Tattoos, identity and meaning

Friday, October 8th, 2010One of the aspects of the networked that I think is oft overlooked is not to do with technology but with people, something that I explore in some depth in the forthcoming No Straight Lines book and project. How do ...

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