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What happens when you are magnetic ink?

It is the same force that is transforming education, journalism and government, the power of people, once connected, to bypass gatekeepers and demand change. Once the process is underway the responsibility of organizations is to adapt. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Blankenhorn, Health Care, Clay Shirky, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources

Blog posts 2008-10-23

Supernova: Anti-social networks and the love connection

I'm sitting next to Mitch Ratcliffe at Supernova 2007 during the morning presentations. First up, Denise Caruso of The Hybrid Vigor Institute her view that today's social networks are anti-social and Clay Shirky of NYU talked about love and the open source community movement. Mitch covers the presentations and...

Tags: Social networking, Supernova

Blog posts 2007-06-21

Denise Caruso: Anti-social media defeats progress

Author and New York Times columnist and Hybrid Vigor Institute founder Denise Caruso, whose new book, Intervention, just arrived, launches the Supernova Conference with a call for diversity of ideas, conversation and, ultimately, collaboration. Leaping forward without first talking, discussing the potential benefits and consequences of a new technology creates...

Tags: Business &, Technology

Blog posts 2007-06-21

Second Life: Don't believe the hype

Clay Shirky is on a mission to debunk the resident numbers of Second Life that are routinely published by the games makers Linden Labs and subsequently banded about by bloggers and journalists alike. And hes doing a pretty good job:Lindens numbers also suggest that the Residents figure includes even failed...

Tags: Clay Shirky, Linden Labs

Blog posts 2006-12-26

Skype, SecondLife and the "TryMe Virus" phenomenon

I take great pleasure in reading passionate pieces where the writer calls attention to faulty and widespread thinking. (I like to write such pieces myself but I give props to other thought leaders no prob.)Writing on Valleywag, author and frequent conventional wisdom debunker Clay Shirky really has hit the...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Second Life, virus, Clay Shirky, Skype Technologies S.A.

Blog posts 2006-12-13

ETech 2006 wrap-up

As ETech 2006 winds down, I wanted to mention some of the highlights as well as a lowlight. The conference highlights included the keynotes by Ray Ozzie, Jon Udell, Clay Shirky for their simple, practical ideas...

Tags: strategy, last day, Clay Shirky

Blog posts 2006-03-09

Semantic web looking for the killer app

Tim Berners-Lee continues to preach the gospel of the semantic web. Speaking at the Fourth Annual Bio-IT World Conference and Expo in Boston, Berners-Lee discussed how the semantic web could solve problems in the life sciences: Life scientists in particular could...

Tags: Semantic Web, Clay Shirky, Tim Berners-Lee

Blog posts 2005-05-20

Semantic web looking for the killer app

Tim Berners-Lee continues to preach the gospel of the semantic web. Speaking at the Fourth Annual Bio-IT World Conference and Expo in Boston, Berners-Lee discussed how the semantic web could solve problems in the life sciences: Life scientists in particular could...

Tags: Tim Berners-Lee, Clay Shirky, Semantic Web

Blog posts 2005-05-20

Additional Resources

Social book reading in the digital age

* Jennifer Leggio is on vacation Guest editorial by Andy Santamaria I know what you're thinking. You read the title of this post and thought, "Books have always been social, we share them with friends, form book clubs, and bend at Oprah's...

Tags: Twitter Inc., Blog, Andy Santamaria, E-books, Blogging, Personal Technology, Internet, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-11-02

Yahoo plots app mall, app portability through its properties

Yahoo has been busy rolling out new features---new home page, revamped My Yahoo, Mail and Messenger overhauls---that come courtesy of its infrastructure revamp a few years in the making. Among the most promising efforts by Yahoo are its homepage applications. Open to all third parties and self...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., App, Mint, E-mail Providers, Strategy, Personal Finance, Financial Accounting, Internet, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-12

News to know: Oracle; Sidekick; Win7 party; Google; Yahoo Hack day

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Jason Hiner: Ellison rips IBM, shows off Sun-Oracle benchmarks, offers $10M prize Scott McNealy names Sun's top 10 tech...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Ryan Naraine, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Federal Government, Internet, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Government, Management

Blog posts 2009-10-12

Clay Shirky, live from Yahoo Open Hack Day 2009

We're live at Yahoo's Open Hack Day 2009 in New York City. by Andrew Nusca

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-10-09

Facebook pages for schools

Separation is KeyI don't think Facebook is an appropriate medium for schools to communicate with students/parents/faculty. One of the issues that comes up in our household frequently is the separation of personal and professional life on Facebook, i.e., I am not "friends" with any of my professional acquaintances on...

Tags: SECURITY, Facebook, Facebook Pages, social media

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

Social networks change how we understand Sotomayor nomination

Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Sonia Sotomayor are happening now, with partisan forces on both sides cheering on their relevant Senators. The debate, of course, is also happening online, The Washington Post's Jose Antonio Vargas reports. One Facebook group, "Sonia Sotomayor for U.S. Supreme Court Justice" now...

Tags: Facebook, Senator, Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-13

News to know: iPhone OS 3.0; Text messaging; Social search; Morro; Palm

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Former Softie to take real-time social-search startup public Matthew Miller: iPhone OS 3.0 update fails connecting...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Social Search, Palm Inc., Text Messaging, Corporate Communications, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Centers, Branding, Marketing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-18

Crying Wolff? News As We Knew It Dies -- In 8 Years.

Leave it to YouTube to defend "the idea of news" and a Vanity Fair media columnist and online news aggregator to put a deadline of eight years on its demise. Two newspapers in two different two-newspaper towns Seattle and Denver have died in the last month. Journalists...

Tags: News, Corporate Communications, Portals, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Internet, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-03-18

Gagging patients from online criticism

Gagging patients from online criticismThe empowered patient's perspectiveStrictly speaking, I myself didn't call it repulsive – I quoted the founder of RateMDs.com, as reported in the AP article. I called it disempowering and "an almost comical attempt to hold back the tide." :–)Check out, in that post, what Clay...

Tags: patient, online criticism

Discussion threads 2009-03-04

Enterprise 2.0: innovation is the name of the game

I'm at the Microsoft FastForward conference in Las Vegas, and seeing and hearing quite a bit about the growing movement to open up enterprises and drive greater innovation with Enterprise 2.0.  Here are some observations: There's what I call it the LIFT phenomenon -- Linked In, Facebook,...

Tags: Game, Innovation, Network, Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-02-10

You get what you pay for: Paid contributors drive open source

What's the difference between a paid contributor to a FOSS project and a volunteer contributor? According to a paper by Evangelia Berdou, quite a bit. Berdou finds that paid developers take up key positions in projects, while volunteers often work on the periphery. In other words -- much of the...

Tags: Developer, F/OSS, Contributor, Core Contributor, Open Source, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Are you suffering from information filter failure?

Clay Shirky, an author and an instructor at New York University's Interactive  Telecommunications Program, says personal lives are a thing of the past, privacy is an  information management problem and life is quickly becoming a systems design issue. Shirky, speaking at the Web 2.0 Expo in New...

Tags: Information, RSS, Web 2.0, Strategy, Security, Internet, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-18