The Power Of Us

03 Sep 15

27 Sep 11

Dániel Varga

peer.production

23 May 11

phoxi81

collaboration sharing

28 Jun 10

Johann Höchtl

"The Power Of Us
Mass collaboration on the Internet is shaking up business
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peer production economy collaboration

08 Sep 09

nunzsu

web2.0 collaboration

28 May 09

Mark Nelson

collaboration social technology community article power socialsoftware opensource commons Garrett Hardin Dan Bricklin tragedy of the commons

Ultimately, all this could point the way to a fundamental change in the way people work together. In 1968, ecologist Garrett Hardin popularized the notion of the tragedy of the commons. He noted that public resources, from pastures and national parks to air and water, inevitably get overused as people act in their own self-interest. It's a different story in the Information Age, contends Dan Bricklin, co-creator of the pioneering PC software VisiCalc and president of consultant Software Garden Inc. in Newton Highlands, Mass.

Instead, he says, there's a cornucopia of the commons. That rich reward may be worth all the disruption we've seen and all the more still to come.

11 May 09

Garrio Harrison

web2.0 social collaboration internet economics business community socialsoftware

16 Mar 09

Amaury de Buchet

enterprise2.0 collaboration crowdsourcing businessweek socialsoftware cooperation procter&gamble peer_production

12 Mar 09

Maximillian Kaizen

imported Bookmarks no_tag

The Internet's supreme group-forming capability suggests the rise of an almost spooky group intelligence. Within minutes of Pope John Paul II's death, hundreds of eBay sellers had posted related products for sale.
More companies are starting to understand the logic. If they can get others to help them design and create products, they end up with ready-made customers -- and that means far less risk in the tricky business of creating new goods and markets.
More than a third of the two dozen requests P&G has submitted to InnoCentive's network have yielded solutions, for which the company paid upwards of $5,000 apiece.
By using InnoCentive and other ways of reaching independent talent, P&G has boosted the number of new products derived from outside to 35%, from 20% three years ago. As a result, sales per R&D person are ahead some 40%.
"The more we talk to each other, the dumber we can get," he notes. Groups that discourage independent thought potentially could put a damper on out-of-the-box ideas from brilliant individuals. They can also become herds that buy or dump stocks on momentum alone. For that matter, they can devolve into lynch mobs and terrorist groups.
As companies have learned, the online hordes can quickly turn against them. Last September bike-lock manufacturer Kryptonite tried to downplay a blogger video that showed how to open its bike locks with a BIC pen. But the video instantly spread across the Net, forcing the company to spend more than $10 million on lock replacements.
Networks are becoming the locus for innovation," says Stanford University professor Walter W. Powell. "Firms are becoming much more porous and decentralized."
Ultimately, all this could point the way to a fundamental change in the way people work together. In 1968, ecologist Garrett Hardin popularized the notion of the tragedy of the commons. He noted that public resources, from pastures and national parks to air and water, inevitably get overused as people act in their own self-interest.

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04 Mar 09

D Thomarie

web2.0 internet media culture skype collaboration

29 Apr 08

pedro_daltro

matéria da business wekk sobre colaborativismo. achei no delicious do paul isakson mas li muito rapidamente.

businessweek ugc colaborativismo collaboration matéria conteúdo aprofundar

13 Apr 08

Lee Dryburgh

disruption

06 Apr 08

Thomas van der Straten

TFE

28 Feb 08

isaac Mao

Grassroots P2P Skype

18 Dec 07

Ian Farmer

Great article on the wisdom of crowds

wisdom-of-crowds

10 Dec 07

Sylvie Le Bars

2005 article del.icio.us imported travailcollaboratif

31 Oct 07

Marta Caño

article sobre la nova organització de les xarxes, més participativa i col·laborativa

web 2.0 delicious

06 Sep 07

Courtney P

30 Jul 07

debra47

article business community consumer del.icio.us economics future imported reference social socialnetworking society technology trends

19 Jul 07

Serge Courrier

e-entreprise e-business groupware travail_collaboratif [article] plateforme_collaborative collaboratif collaboration [tool] company

27 Jun 07

Darren Sharp

Collaboration web2.0 user-led innovation YochaiBenkler

26 Apr 07

midmarketplace_

way

Mike Nall

way

01 Jan 07

ethomsen

Web: Trends etc.

21 Dec 06

davidkato

collaboration economy socialsoftware business management

20 Nov 06

25 Oct 06

Stuart Maxwell

anewworld biznet collaboration imported:del.icio.us

07 Sep 06

xiuli zhuang

socialtech

25 Aug 06

imported blogging business collaboration community internet technology web wiki

08 Aug 06

Doug Adams

peer production crowdsourcing blog article business social technology trends

02 Aug 06

bob

nexus socialsoftware

20 Jun 06

collaboration community elmo marketing social.networks yahoo.teachers

14 Jun 06

Matt Schneider

collaboration collective commons community decentralization economics folksonomies future longtail opensource philosophy socialnetworks society system

07 Jun 06

Erik Stattin

21 Apr 06

Trebor Scholz

Business Week article on sharing economies, technologies of cooperation, The Cooperation Project

Social_media Collaboration Commons Community Cooperation Sharing_Economy

14 Feb 06

Michel Bauwens

P2P-Business P2P-Cooperation P2P

25 Dec 05

Hans Henrik H Heming

Mass collaboration on the Internet is shaking up business.

collaboration blogging business socialsoftware community corporate smartmobs wiki

20 Dec 05

Tara Hunt

powerofus meconomy web2.0 internet cluetrain delicious

26 Oct 05

Martin Lindner

The Market Power of Us: New Economy indeed

social_software socialsoftware web2.0 phone web2.0_market web20_economy delicious

21 Oct 05

Teemu Arina

collaboration business social cooperation

07 Sep 05

Mike Koss

Business Week article on Mass Collaboration networks. I really like the way "Peer Production" is described; and seems an extremely powerful concept - one with much more potential to tap into to create products, content, and services. P.S. I just bought

social

04 Sep 05

Nick Gall

BusinessWeek article on mass innovation. It's mainstream now baby.

via_delicious_20101217 ImportedFurl20071006 MassInnovation collaboration pinboardimport20141106 Mass Innovation

Mass collaboration on the Internet is shaking up business

04 Aug 05

Marco Mazzei

blog business corporate folksonomy media social trend technology collaboration internet newsletter

28 Jul 05

Alan Levine

social technology

01 Jul 05

paulcowles

innovation social web

30 Jun 05

Nigel Burke

3500-word overview of commons-based peer production, covering Skype, eBay, blogs, volunteer grid computing (like distributed.net), BitTorrent, Google, prediction markets, Smart Mobs, Open Source, Yochai Benkler, Wikipedia, much more

innovation crowds

27 Jun 05

Caspar Van der Linden

Is the internet bringing us a new kind of Industrial Revolution? Group-driven this time.

General Business Social Bookmarking

Behold the power of us. It's the force behind the collective clamor of Weblogs that felled CBS (VIA ) anchorman Dan Rather and rocked the media establishment. Global crowds of open-source Linux programmers are giving even mighty Microsoft Corp. (MSFT ) fits. Virtual supercomputers, stitched together from millions of volunteers' PCs, are helping predict global climate change, analyze genetic diseases, and find new planets and stars. One investment-management firm, Marketocracy Inc., even runs a sort of stock market rotisserie league for 70,000 virtual traders. It skims the cream of the best-performing portfolios to buy and sell real stocks for its $60 million mutual fund. Although tech companies may be leading the way, their efforts are shaking up other industries, including entertainment, publishing, and advertising. Hollywood is under full-scale assault by 100 million people sharing songs and movies online via programs such as Kazaa and BitTorrent. The situation is the same with ad-supported media: Google Inc.'s (GOOG ) ace search engine essentially polls the collective judgments of millions of Web page creators to determine the most relevant search results. In the process, it has created a multibillion-dollar market for supertargeted ads that's drawing money from magazine display ads and newspaper classifieds.

26 Jun 05

Frankwatching Furl

Innovatie Telecom - mobiel IT Branches internet

Dave McRobie

News-innovation

Mass collaboration on the Internet is shaking up business

24 Jun 05

emdiesus Diego

Bookmarks organizzazione collaborazione

22 Jun 05

Judith Perrolle

p2p

21 Jun 05

Mark Pesce

Business Week article about swarming, smart mobs, etc.

hyperpeople swarm P2P VOIP sharing social networks media open

20 Jun 05

Sam Rose

cooperation collaboration communities economics longtail media open_source opensource sharing_economy smartmobs socialsoftware software technology

19 Jun 05

Howard Silverman

commons economics newsreport

Randall Rode

Online Communities

17 Jun 05

Amy Gahran

"peer power presents difficult challenges for anyone invested in the status quo. Corporations, those citadels of command-and-control, may be in for the biggest jolt. Increasingly, they will have to contend with ad hoc groups of customers who have the powe

business sharing community problem+solving

peer power presents difficult challenges for anyone invested in the status quo. Corporations, those citadels of command-and-control, may be in for the biggest jolt. Increasingly, they will have to contend with ad hoc groups of customers who have the power to join forces online to get what they want.

16 Jun 05

alex de carvalho

business community networking

Todd Suomela

Putting mass internet collaboration to business use. Good basic survey of recent trends.

business collaboration import-delicious

Werner Trotter

mass collaboration peers networks internet kazza BitTorrent collective wisdom democratization of industry Collaborative Cooperative

The nearly 1 billion people online worldwide -- along with their shared knowledge, social contacts, online reputations, computing power, and more -- are rapidly becoming a collective force of unprecedented power. For the first time in human history, mass cooperation across time and space is suddenly economical. "There's a fundamental shift in power happening," says Pierre M. Omidyar, founder and chairman of the online marketplace eBay Inc. (EBAY ) "Everywhere, people are getting together and, using the Internet, disrupting whatever activities they're involved in."

15 Jun 05

Asteris Masouras

business future collab

Lloyd Shepherd

Very good Business Week overview of...well, everything that's going on

community socialsoftware socialmedia citi

Chrys R

collaboration community

14 Jun 05

tadej zontar

Society

The Power Of Us Mass collaboration on the Internet is shaking up business
The Power Of Us Mass collaboration on the Internet is shaking up business
The Power Of Us Mass collaboration on the Internet is shaking up business

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PG Holmlov

VoIP

... Last year they began using Skype, a program that lets them make free calls over the Internet, with better sound quality than regular phones, using headsets connected to their PCs. Callers simply click on a name in their Skype contact lists, and if the person is there, they connect and talk just like on a regular phone call. "Better quality at no cost," exults Meiosys Chief Executive Jason Donahue. Poof! Almost 90% of his firm's $2,000 monthly long-distance phone bill has vanished. With 41 million people now using Skype, plus 150,000 more each day, it's no wonder AT&T and MCI are hanging it up.
... Last year they began using Skype, a program that lets them make free calls over the Internet, with better sound quality than regular phones, using headsets connected to their PCs. Callers simply click on a name in their Skype contact lists, and if the person is there, they connect and talk just like on a regular phone call. "Better quality at no cost," exults Meiosys Chief Executive Jason Donahue. Poof! Almost 90% of his firm's $2,000 monthly long-distance phone bill has vanished. With 41 million people now using Skype, plus 150,000 more each day, it's no wonder AT&T and MCI are hanging it up.