Category Archives: Web 2.0
Best Web 2.0 Acquisition Bait
Check out WIRED magazine’s recent top 10 web 2.0 acquisition bait. Wired 15.01: START 1. FACEBOOK This social networking site is gaining on MySpace as the hipster destination. Reportedly, it spurned a $750 million offer in hopes of netting $2 billion. 2. DIGG Claiming 20 million users a month, Digg is the Mack Daddy of [...]
Odeo
I have found myself listening to a few podcasts on ODEO. It’s so much easier than subscribing to the podcast on iTunes. Granted I can’t take it with me on my iPod but it is nice to search and find with such ease. It’s worth a shot if you haven’t checked it out. I’ve included [...]
I think Twitter is onto something. You sign up and anytime you update (send an SMS) it updates your friends and the website (if you’re comments are public). In some aspects this is just an easy way to send out a text to many. Do I care what my friends are doing? Do I want [...]
WeThink
Charlie Leadbeater has released an interesting book on mass creativity and innovation (well sort of released, it’s actually now online for mass collaboration). We-Think: the power of mass creativity. Here’s an excerpt: The basic argument is very simple. Most creativity is collaborative. It combines different views, disciplines and insights in new ways. The opportunities for [...]
Drive home from Yahoo! Music
Yesterday on my way home to Orange County from a lunch meeting at Yahoo! Music, in Santa Monica, I decided to count how many times I changed the radio the station in search the music I felt like listening to. I lost count after 20 switches — and that was before I had made it [...]
Link: Everyone as Co-Creators: Harnessing Collective Innovation with Web 2.0
Unfortunately my time has been crunched over the last few weeks or I would have attempted to summarize my own thoughts on open innovation. That being said, I guess part of the genius behind open source innovation is “harnessing collective innovation”, in which the link below is a great introduction to the subject: Everyone as [...]
