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Occupy Search Engines! ;)

Yesterday a friend of mine shared this funny video: What is not funny, though, is when the joke is on you! Linked In News Post Forum

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800 million people helped facebook.com, not the other way around

We have already helped more than 800 million people map out more than 100 billion connections so far, and our goal is to help this rewiring accelerate. Linked In News Post Forum

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The difference between New World 1.0 and New World 2.0

Following up on the signs of the times, I want to now explain some significant differences between the “real” New World and the “virtual” New World. In order to simplify this exercise, I will not take such a broad view … Continue reading

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How to watch your watch

It’s mainly a question of walking the walk, talking the talk and understanding the signs of the times. Linked In News Post Forum

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Why has the information revolution not yet precipitated a social revolution?

To answer this question, it is necessary to separate the information revolution 1.0 from the information revolution 2.0. The way I see it, the First Information Revolution has indeed caused a social revolution… — but it took a very long … Continue reading

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Users buy containers because they expect to get value out of their contents

Actually, containers are very similar to markets — the containers I am talking about are words: more specifically, keyword domain names. Whereas suppliers use these containers to advertise and sell their goods and services, consumers use containers to express their … Continue reading

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Irrational denotations off the deep end

Whenever I read something David Brooks has written, I always regret it. It leaves me with something worse than a stale aftertaste… — I feel like I have to take a shower or something. So when Paul Krugman mentioned in … Continue reading

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Cory Doctorow is able to make reading news about the behavior of illiterate people entertaining

For example: The [aforementioned] rule of thumb works for cars, for houses, and for every other substantial area of technological regulation. Not realizing that it fails for the Internet does not make you evil, and it does not make you … Continue reading

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Not so fast!

If it takes 7 years for an idea to emerge via social media (did “social media” even exist as a concept 7 years ago?), then that is — in my opinion — quite slow. One reason why it might be … Continue reading

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Social animals — such as primates — like to communicate (in order to be social)

… and humans are primates. Communicating with others can be a kind of social grooming (if we communicate about a person, we thereby care about — i.e. “groom” — them) Linked In News Post Forum

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