Major publications like The New York Times have begun moving forward with plans to charge for online subscriptions. Brian Noguchi of Austin, Texas’ local T3 (The Think Tank) advertising firm makes an interesting point in this post about the future of online content and its value: People and business that provide insightful, imaginative, helpful, and progressive content [...]
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Summary: Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action — and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group. About Howard Rheingold: Writer, artist and designer, theorist and community builder, Howard Rheingold is one of the driving minds behind our net-enabled, [...]
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Communities are built on communications. With stunning advances in communications technology and inexpensive, powerful, and reliable platforms readily available, the art of communications also needs to be matured and implemented. Many workers and business fall into a model of Personal Information Managers (e.g. MS Outlook) and the MS Office trinity of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. [...]
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A collaboration platform utilizes a “Network Effect” where the system itself becomes more valuable to those who use it as the number of participants increase and information is created. In the world of Web 2.0, “critical mass” describes the amount of data held in the system which allows the user community to easily retrieve information. [...]
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In the Web 2.0 world, rapidly distributing information has never been easier. Sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and Myspace allow individuals to share information about events in their lives to anyone around the world, while sites such as Wikipedia allow individual to globally share collective knowledge. These and other Web 2.0 systems are rapidly changing [...]
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