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FACEBOOK IS A DATA ROACH MOTEL
by Emmanuel Verhagen on 10/08/2007 (6 comments)
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Social Networking
Internet
Innovation
Facebook
Ning
MySpace
Your data goes in, but it rarely leaves. At least according to Robert Scobble. It made me think about what the real value is of social networks. What are they actually doing and where do they go wrong? I have to admit: any social network I join asks me the same questions over and over again. Usually it ends up being an endless list of boring stuff. Meaning: self-evident. For me.
INNOVATION DEMOCRATIZATION
by Emmanuel Verhagen on 02/08/2007
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Internet
iPod
Apple
Sony
Innovation
The proliferation of "user-generated" designs signals the "democratizing" of innovation. Or so the saying goes, at least when you talk to experts like Eric von Hippel, a management professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. he argues that ordinary people, armed with inexpensive digital tools and networks can band together to push their own innovations. And furthermore "the people" can also hijack existing technologies, taking them in directions only dimly envisioned by the original creators. However...