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Quarantined Conferences: Claustrophobic Technophiles or Attentive Audiences?
November 12, 2009
Loren Feldman. 1938 Media. Audience Conference. That’s about as much of a summary as you’ll find about the Audience Conference held in New York last Friday. That’s because there were no open laptops allowed during the performances. There was also no Wi-Fi, no video streaming, no tweeting, and no blogging. I disagree with the notion that everything needs to be live streamed, live blogged, and live tweeted merely because we can.
Abandon Stocks, Embrace Flows - A Conversation with John Hagel
October 26, 2009
This interview covers three “Big Shifts” that have dominated 2009 (1) The move to the real-time web, (2) the move from the information web to the Social Web and (3) the rise of mobile. Since John co-chairs Deloitte’s Center for the Edge I wanted to get his take on each in terms of its impact on larger organizations. This first video covers the Real-Time Web.
The Fun Theory
October 21, 2009
Play is how our passions find us. Play is where failure isn't failure and isn't emotionally charged. Play is all about iteration and we iterate on the emerging questions that arise from within us and that we are driven to understand. With the Fun Theory Award, VW has sponsored a competition to award creative examples of changing behavior by making functional fun.
Mobile Banks in the Developing World Prove Simpler is Better
September 18, 2009
Recent initiatives designed to make U.S. consumer financial products simpler and intelligible to customers, reminds me of a study we did on Mobile Banks in the developing world. Designed to work on the simplest mobile devices and originally targeting the unbanked, mobile banks evolved from simple services to become widely used money-transfer and mobile payment systems. While it's technically easy to roll out a rudimentary mobile payment system, the most successful mobile banks in the developing world use complex software systems that handle more (near) real-time transactions than traditional banking systems.
Technology Innovation Site Will Launch in the Fall
By Kyle DentJuly 23, 2009
The Henry Ford, the museum associated with Henry Ford and his company, will be launching a new web site focusing on recent innovation and the people who make it happen.
Nine Essential Truths for Entrepreneurial Success
By Mark SigalJune 24, 2009
Leveraging the pattern recognition of others is one of the best ways to build upon best practices, while sidestepping avoidable mistakes. What follows is a primer of nine key lessons learned from doing eight startups (four as co-founder, four liquidity events).
The Myth of Macroinnovation
By Nat TorkingtonMay 26, 2009
An idea is making the rounds and appearing in articles like this New York Times piece, and it goes roughly thus: the age of the small inventor is over because to work on stuff that matters requires the largescale coordination of people and materiel that only governments and large corporations can provide. This notion that we're entering a Golden Age of Macroinnovation is bunkum, I'm happy to report.
Results from Wolfram Alpha: All the Questions We Ever Wanted to Ask About Software as a Service
May 8, 2009
Software as a Service, known in earlier decades as Application Service Providers, upends the relationship between computer users and software. I'm seriously tempted to say that Wolfram Alpha takes the SaaS model to its extreme. So Wolfram Alpha's chances at scaling the heights of fame should force us to stop for a moment and run our own calculations concerning the value to us of data integrity, reliability, privacy, and innovation.
Another ditzy patent application comes up for examination by Peer-to-Patent
February 19, 2009
Peer to Patent project is examining a patent application that tries to get a monopoly on a trivial tagging mechanism similar to what millions of people use on blogs, social networks, and media sharing sites.
Radar Interview with Clay Shirky
By Joshua-Michéle RossFebruary 19, 2009
Clay Shirky is one of the most incisive thinkers on technology and its effects on business and society. I had the pleasure to sit down with him after his keynote at the FASTForward '09 conference last week in Las Vegas. In this interview Clay talks about the effects of low cost coordination and group action, where to find the next layer of value when many professions are being disrupted by the Internet, and the necessary role of low cost experimentation in finding new business models.
Peer-to-Patent and Article One Drag the Reclusive Patent Onto the Thoroughfare
February 2, 2009
Peer-to-Patent, a research project affiliated with several patent offices, and Article One Partners, a commercial venture, are trying to bring public participation into the patent system. This article describes and compares these organizations, highlights a new "post-issue" site erected last week by Peer-to-Patent to seek prior art on patents that have already been issued, and tries to tease out the social and economic trend represented by the organizations.
Work On Stuff That Matters: Video Interview with Tim O'Reilly
January 15, 2009
Over the past few months I have been interviewing various people that are "on our Radar" so to speak. It recently occurred to me that we had never done a video with Tim. So last week Kirk Walter (bless him!) grabbed his camera and Tim and I took a walk behind the O'Reilly offices in Sebastopol. We had a wide-ranging...
Seeing New Possibilities in Existing Technologies: An Interview with April Allderdice of MicroEnergy Credits
January 13, 2009
This interview is with April Allderdice, CEO and cofounder of MicroEnergy Credits. MicroEnergy Credits has developed a mechanism using microfinance institutions and GPS cell phones to allow carbon credits to reach small households in the developing world. Until now the relatively high transaction costs involved in set up and verification of a carbon trade has made the market available...
Scott Berkun Talks about Innovation in Guy Kawasaki's New Book
December 30, 2008
Scott Berkun, the bestselling author of The Myths of Innovation, discusses how innovators and inventors get their ideas in Guy Kawasaki's popular new book, Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition.
Bailouts, Burnouts and Non-Linear Innovation
December 10, 2008
Think fractally, think non-linear, and help those of your linear friends, neighbors and political representatives who can't conceive that tomorrow will not be like today to understand that linear thinking is a dangerous, deceptive illusion.
When Times Get Tough, the Tough Invent
November 21, 2008
The best ideas are risky ... and often are not necessarily beneficial to the originator. At O'Reilly we recently had a discussion about the distinction between invention and innovation. Invention, the creation of truly novel ideas, especially the paradigm changers, is comparatively rare. It requires focused dedication, persistence, intelligence and a willingness to fight the status quo. This is because the status quo - our society overall - is resistant to the idea of change, and inventions by their very nature bring change.
A Critical Choice Regarding Innovation
By Tim O'ReillyNovember 12, 2008
This morning, via twitter, I came across two contrasting blog posts, one from JP Rangaswami (@jobsworth), and one from Martin Varsavsky (@martinvars), that seemed to me to sum up the very essence of the problem I've been calling out in my "work on stuff that matters" talks. In Faster Horses in the Age of Co-Creation, JP argues that Henry Ford's...
Bilski patent decision: trying to return patents to their technological origins
November 10, 2008
The software industry is abuzz--almost as much as the legal field--with a October 28 court decision that everyone regards as a verdict on business patents, and that some think it will change software patenting as well. I've just published an exploration of the issue. What I offer here is an inductive exploration based on hypothetical examples.
Can XML Help you Avoid a Disruptive Innovation?
By Brian O'LearyOctober 24, 2008
This semester, I'm fortunate to spend my Wednesday nights teaching management to students who are part of NYU's M.S. in publishing program. Although a significant share of the course is...
Scott Berkun on CNBC
By O'Reilly MediaAugust 14, 2008
Scott Berkun, the author of The Myths of Innovation joins the expert panel on CNBC's the "Business of Innovation." The all-new five-part series starts tonight and analyzes the real-word issues and challenges facing organizations in today's global economy.
Scott Berkun on CNBC Monday - Watch the first episode
By O'Reilly MediaAugust 14, 2008
The Human Element, the first episode of a new season of CNBC's Business of Innovation is now online for viewing. This groundbreaking series focuses on how to make innovation happen in order to maintain a cutting edge. And Scott Berkun, O'Reilly's bestselling author of the Myths of Innovation joined this season's panel of experts. Watch the episode now.
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