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A Community of Knowledge Assets
Our culture organizes itself around winners and losers. Corporations reflect this competitive nature to the core of their Capitalist doctrine. Sports analogies abound across the enterprise straight...
View ArticleThe New Definition of Innovation
Innovation is most often defined as a good idea that has a favorable economic outcome – in other words, you know it when you sell it. I have seen Corporate executives glow red in the face shouting down...
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Factor of Production #2; Creative Capital
The financial system that we live in today is allocated to us all through combining chunks of Land, Labor, and Capital. It should be fairly obvious that there are some issues with land (real estate...
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Everyone, Inc.
In the state of Washington, it costs 200 dollars to establish a Limited Liability Corporation. All the documents are online and there is no shortage of tutorials on the process. It’s a whole lot easier...
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The Invisible Surplus
Knowledge is THE Asset. Deal with it. I don’t care what the “definitions” by the Experts, the Patent System, Production Systems, Money, corporate bonds, marketing, advertising, or all the rest of that...
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Foursquare Economics
The Next Economic Paradigm is arriving and the first entries include Foursquare. Few people understand the significance of this new class of social media applications. Foursquare contains many (but...
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Gowalla and Foursquare: Money is as Money Does
Money happens because people happen, not the other way around. Wall Street has no idea what’s knocking at their door with the emergence of a new class of Social Media Applications that incorporate...
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Culture: When Engagement Is Not Optional
Today we see Social Media duplicating many of the functions of earlier society by storing community wisdom, applying social vetting, and deploying social currencies. It takes a Community Here is an...
View ArticleDoes School Interfere With Education?
I guess that is could be considered sacrilege for a college professor to suggest that higher education is inadequate in some way. My position is that the college degree must go away in favor of...
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Is Anonymity an Asset or a Liability?
Facebook is delivering incredibly rich data about people, their activities, preferences and knowledge assets right to the doorstep of marketers, employers, and likely, Government. Uhm…is this what the...
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The Brain-Picking Economy
I come across an increasing amount of posts and discussions related to alternate currencies, social currencies, and knowledge as a tangible asset, etc. It is as if people are grappling with something...
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Innovation Suicide
The following question appeared on a Linkedin Forum that I follow: Complete this sentence: The ONE factor that is MOST important to innovation is… and here’s why… I have said this in a few blog posts...
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The 1:1000 Rule; A Social Currency Imperative
What’s the difference between money and value? Today, I saw yet another doom gloom economic forecast with the proverbial exponential graph of interest-on-debt climbing out to the stratosphere. The...
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Social Currency and Anonymity
The subject of privacy and anonymity are again rising up with the latest move by Facebook to integrate updates across the Internet onto the Facebook platform. Conspiracy theories about Facebook and the...
View ArticleFuture of Money and Technology Summit; Non-Quantifiable Exchanges
The above video playlist consists of the full 6 parts of the expert panel discussing non-quantifiable exchanges as recorded on April 26 2010 at the Future of Money and Technology Summit in San...
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To Accelerate Serendipity, The Whuffie Factor
Tara Hunt; Future of Money and Technology Summit 2010 In 1999, Cluetrain Manifesto flipped everything we knew about online behavior on it’s head. The integration of information being published on the...
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Trading Money in for Value
Money is a convenient way to store and exchange value. Unless the world enters into a free trade agreement with Martians, Earth is the physical boundary of all existing value. No matter what a monetary...
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Crowdsourcing The New Exploitation
The cadence of modern globalization has been set by the steady drive to lower labor costs across the world. Not surprisingly, the greatest threat to the global economy is social instability. As usual,...
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Social Capitalism: Meet The New Intangibles
Today, land, labor, and capital make up the “Tangible” assets allocated by entrepreneurs in the production of all products and service. Meanwhile, Social Capital, Creative Capital, and Intellectual...
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Bizarro Capitalism
In the 1960’s Superman comics, Bizarro World was a place where everything was the opposite as Normal World. On the planet Htrae (Earth spelled backwards) lives Bizarro Jimmy Olsen, a Bizarro Lois...
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