Archive for the ‘Darwin’ Category

Grow VC the Kiva of tech start ups

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 I am proud to introduce Grow VC which has some great heritage behind it. Not only the creators but also projects like Kiva, Artistshare, Galaxy zoo and Local Motors (More on networked economics). Here is the context, 80% of the growth ...

Social media and mobile: my remote control for life bootcamp

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 Last year I sat with one of the anointed Glitterati of the US Digerati who was extolling the virtues of "social meeedijaa", but only from the context of online. In the end I could not take it any more and ...

Networked government – could reboot Britain

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 CFA is the latest wave in the growing government 2.0 movement, joining the ranks of Federal CIO Vivek Kundra's Data.gov site and innovation contests like Apps for Democracy and Apps for America, where citizens can create shared applications using public-sector ...

Obama and the superbranding of politics

Monday, January 25th, 2010 My god Naomi Klein takes me back - No Logo is up there for anyone who is remotely interested in brands. And were I to draw up a time line of books I have read and how each book subsequently ...

I get a 70% royalty for publishing my book

Thursday, January 21st, 2010 Quite extraordinary, I thought when reading about how Amazon is reaching out to authors in a manner that completely disintermediates publishing companies. And publishers as we know them are not happy campers at the moment. Arjan from Freedom Lab linked to ...

Was the promise made good for society through 2.0?

Friday, January 15th, 2010 Mr. Lanier, a musician and avant-garde computer scientist — he popularized the term “virtual reality” — wonders if the Web’s structure and ideology are fostering nasty group dynamics and mediocre collaborations. His new book, “You Are Not a Gadget,” is ...

Its not online or offline, it’s blended reality

Thursday, January 14th, 2010 We acknowledge that digital communication tools, fixed broadband, mobile, convergence, open source, cheap production tools have changed our world. And we have shown that we are reluctantly accepting that by using the word digital ever more frequently. Digital natives vs. digital ...

The cardboard futures as furniture

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 Proudly calling itself “the world’s first fully-specified mass production workstation made entirely of cardboard”, this is the Paperweight Desk, from British company Cardboard Future Ltd. “We are aware that cardboard furniture has enjoyed a mixed press over the last fifty ...

Alan Moore speaking @ sxsw 2010

Monday, January 11th, 2010 This weekend I was invited to give a keynote @ sxsw 2010 based upon my submission in August last year. (watch the 2.5 minute film) The topic is Straight Line Thinking Stops Here, something that I covered at The Do Lectures ...

The data war of the worlds

Friday, January 8th, 2010 [caption id="attachment_4376" align="alignleft" width="420" caption="War of the Worlds?"][/caption] We blogged this years ago and Christian brought it up in context of recent development at google. So what are the business models of the 21st Century? SMLXL archives on data + marketing ...