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The FLIRT model of crowdsourcing - an analytical approach

I write from time to time here about mass collaboration - and it is something I have been thinking about more recently as I read Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody. In a nutshell I’m excited about this space because the way the internet lowers the cost and barriers to collaboration has the potential to [...]

Will VRM be commercial?

I attended an NMK seminar on vendor relationship management (VRM) last night (thanks to Ian Delaney for organising a great event).  This is an area I have been getting excited about recently, and I posted some early thoughts here (the comments are also worth a read).
Unfortunately I had to leave the seminar early so I’m [...]

Musings on open-ness, extensibility and the writeable web

For me, it is increasingly the case that a lot of the best software is open and extensible, at least to an extent. The inspiration for this post came when I was playing with the photo sharing software and service from Jalbum last week, but it is true for a wide range of companies, from [...]

Brand, new media and big exits

Fred Wilson wrote this yesterday in a post lamenting Murdoch’s announcement at Davos that he plans to expand the subscription area of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ):
Here’s the deal. Digital media is not about scarcity and never will be. That’s the old media game. Online it’s about ubiquity, about being part of the conversation, about [...]

Mobile internet - when will it take off?

I have blogged a couple of times on the one internet versus two question, and it seems the debate is still raging - Alan Patrick wrote a great post on the subject last Sunday over on Broadstuff.
There are a couple of things I want to pull out from that post.  Firstly his concise statement of [...]

Mass collaboration alive and kicking in Europe

Check out this link for a list mass collaboration/open source style projects.  The link is to an EU site, but the projects are all over the world.  About 50 of them.  They are all non-software.
Thanks for the link Marc.

Second Life grows up??

Thanks to Nick Carr for putting this from the Guardian on RoughType
The formerly libertarian landscape has been overrun by rampaging nouveau-capitalists. They want centralised governance and stern economic ruling. Everyone is a potential thief. Fingers are being pointed and, in some extreme cases, avatars are being attacked. The digital idyll has become a world of [...]

Library House mediatech 2.006

   
I want to thank the folks at LibraryHouse for putting on a great conference today.  The things I liked about it were, in no particular order:

It was buzzy - London feels like a good place to be an entrepreneur right now and events like this are an important part of the mix
Bob Young - [...]

Rivers Run Red to launch Second Life TV channel

Rivers Run Red have been doing a lot of cool stuff in Second Life for a while now, including work with Duran Duran and Adidas (who have sold 18,000 pairs of virtual trainers).
They announced just before I went on holiday that they were launching a TV channel inside Second Life.  According to the press release 24/7 [...]

The Borg joins the Federation - MSFT ‘gets it’ part II

Microsoft seems to be losing all its old bad behaviours and changing to become an open, participative player in the new world.  And all power to them.  I think it is the right move strategically and it should open up opportunities for entrepreneurs and VCs.
I posted a couple of weeks ago that Microsoft are going after the [...]

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