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Contrary to vertically integrated, non-collaborative media companies, platform publishing is an ecosystem whereby platform based service providers enable the emergence of new innovative micro-publishing models.
China's thriving culture of hacking poses the greatest information security risk in the world and especially Africa. http://t.co/Xx4q5csXYJ
Yochai Benkler, Joseph M. Field '55 Professor of Law, Yale Law School (RT @MariamCook: Watching, again: Yochai Benkler - Freedom in the Commons: Towards a Political Economy of Information...
Our technology may be getting smarter, but a provocative new study suggests human intelligence is on the decline. In fact, it indicates that Westerners have lost 14 I.Q. points on average since the Victorian Era.
The world was introduced to conspicuous consumption in 1899 when Thorstein Veblen wrote the book The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study in the Evolution of Institutions. Veblen explained that some people express their prestige and social status by spending money and acquiring luxury goods. At that time, before the middle class had fully emerged, only a handful of people were able to indulge in conspicuous spending, which is what made luxuries so prestigious. Over the last century, however, attitudes towards conspicuous spending, as well as the spending habits, themselves, have changed. More and more people have access to luxury goods, which has made conspicuous consumption generally more accessible, and therefore less desirable in illustrating social prestige.
In the second part of The Networked Society City Index films, Patrik Regårdh looks at how cities are improving literacy, education, healthcare and sustainability using user case examples from Singapore, Sao Paulo, Paris and more.
In a production economy, value creation depends on land, labor and capital. In a knowledge economy, value creation depends mainly on the ideas and innovations to be found in people’s heads. Those ideas cannot be forcibly extracted.
Nick Miller is the CEO of Parking Panda — a service that enables parking space owners (both individuals and commercial lots) to capitalize on underutilized parking spaces by renting them to a community of drivers.
Local Motors shares its innovations and lets customers be part of the car-building process, while keeping it local.
The sharing economy: How do you stop something you can't keep up with?
The first major conference for the digital currency suggests it is gaining legitimacy, but in a manner disappointing to some early enthusiasts.
Even GitHub uses GitHub: Co-founder and CEO Tom Preston-Werner recently experienced in a very meta way the power of his online hosting service for software-development projects (and the largest open-source community around). Preston-Werner asked users to help him build a new type of data format; within two days, hundreds of contributions to the project had been made.
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Social Business: Valuable Inside as Well as Out CFO Magazine If you can't recall, says Vala Afshar, chief marketing and customer officer for network security firm Enterasys, your business is probably missing out on innovations and ideas fostered by...
Mickos defends the open core license as being a healthy alternative for software startups.
WikiSpeed is a social enterprise applying cutting-edge collaboration techniques from the open-source software world, to solve problems for social good.
Past scandals, bad photos, critical comments: the internet has a long memory.
Car sharing with strangers a growing bus...As a result of the recent economic crisis, the US ...Companies like Sidecar and Lyft, operating in citi...Zimride is the alternative for longer distances.
An open source business model for short films. I've spent a lot of time over the years thinking about how to address this short film paradox: people love great shorts when they get to see them, but rarely get to see them.
New York is cracking down on peer-to-peer business. What could that mean for the rest of the sharing economy?
With a little juggling and tweaking all the docking stations (in the critical-mass numbers needed to have a successful program) could be placed in locations that actually make sense. Almost everyone at the very well-attended recent Community Board 2 forum said, “I support bike-share,” and then followed up by pleading for the city to work with them to achieve smarter, more nimble and appropriate locations. Not everybody is a NIMBYist. Some New Yorkers are just smart, concerned citizens who simply want their government to listen and really hear them — you know, it’s called participatory democracy.
This gave me an idea. Why not go straight to the source? Here’s a reading list for INFS1602 – the Wikipedia edition:
MORGANTOWN - With eight in 10 farmers making less than $10,000 a year, West Virginia will never rival big Midwestern factory farms in producing food. But creative collaborations with food entrepreneurs are seeding a new kind of economy that federal officials say could become a model for 12 other Appalachian states.
Ericsson engineers have begun experimenting with a new type of cell site – one embedded inside a window. As demand for mobile data grows, networks must get denser. That means building increasingly smaller cells and putting them much closer to mobile users. So why not take advantage of the glass surfaces that cover our homes, businesses and vehicles?
The evolution of collaborative consumption continues, with several startups serving up different takes on monetizing shared meals in North America.
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