Sorry Carr, the Cloud Looks Silver from Here
Nicholas Carr is a well-respected thought leader who we have agreed and disagreed with in the past (see here and here). A few weeks ago, he posted The Cloud’s Not So Silver Lining as a response to...
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2018 – A Vision of the Future
One rainy day earlier this summer, nGenera’s Gov 2.0 Program Director, Dan Herman, locked three summer interns in a room (Ben and Jude, and I) and asked us to think about what life – and government –...
View ArticleWhen a phone is a bridge between worlds
I’ve been looking into new ways that people can use mobile devices. Both Google and Apple have offered big prizes for people who develop applications for their Android and iPhone platforms. There are...
View ArticleNing vs. WidgetLaboratory and the challenges underlying ‘open’ platforms
The combination of Ning and WidgetLaboratory (WL) was a story that had wikinomics written all over it. The former is a platform that enables anyone to create their own social networks focused on...
View ArticleSweet! More Portal!
Portal is my favorite videogame, it came out just about a year ago. For the uninitiated, the game is built around a new gameplay mechanic: portals. In a twist on the standard First Person Shooter...
View ArticleTrion World Gaming: Revolutionary or Just a Bunch of Hype?
I’m sure many of the Wikinomics blog readers are familiar with Massively Multiplayer Online Games, but there is an off-chance you haven’t heard of Trion World Gaming. They have yet to release a game,...
View ArticleCould Mass Collaboration Generate Life?
Kevin Kelly’s Lifestream is one of my favorite blogs. Earlier this week, Mr. Kelly wrote a post titled Evidence of a Global SuperOrganism, in which he seriously entertains the idea that the Internet...
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Jive: Social Networking for Seniors
Concerned that your grandparents won’t make it to your party because they didn’t get your facebook invitation? Fear not, sort-of. Introducing Jive. Designed by Ben Arent for his senior design project,...
View ArticleThe Economics of Collaboration – the dealer network.
Amongst the things making news today (other than the obvious) is the hook-up between Italian carmaker Fiat, and struggling, if not near-dead, American icon, Chrysler. The deal, if approved, would give...
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Twitter as the basis of an open login scheme
Everyone hates juggling usernames and passwords. So all the great activity around OpenID, Facebook Connect, and more recently OpenID and facebook – all which suggest that mainstream use of open web...
View ArticleMonday Morning Fun With YouTube
I see the future of YouTube as being a service to which people can upload their videos which — given the right licensing settings — can be remixed and reimagined in-browser by third parties. On this...
View ArticleCollaborating with competitors
(Editor’s Note: Kevin Cochrane is Chief Marketing Officer for Day Software. He joins us to share Day’s experience of collaborating with competitors on an open source platform for the benefit of an...
View ArticleApple and the Rise of Competitive Business Platforms – What Other Companies...
Last Friday, the Apple rumor mill went into overdrive. Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster and All Things Digital’s ardent Apple follower of Boomtown fame, Kara Swisher, openly discussed the long-rumored...
View ArticleBeyond public options or private options: Embracing the potential of the new...
In my previous post, I presented Apple, Inc. as a leader in using corporate business platforms and ecosystems for business growth. I also advised all industries to take notice and learn. But...
View ArticleCollaborative platforms and open data as keys to the new public-private...
In my two last two posts I focused on collaborative platforms and ecosystems in private sector and in the public sector. In my previous post, I specifically discussed the emergence of what I called the...
View ArticleSo Long, Geocities!
Today is the end of an era. Yahoo! is finally pulling the plug on GeoCities, the staple web1.0 web page publishing service for the masses. Through a modern lens any given Geocities site was like an...
View ArticleGoing Vertical: The New Reality of Vertical Integration in the Era of...
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal by Ben Worthen, Cari Tuna and Justin Scheck pointed out a resurgence of vertical integration as a company strategy as seen with Oracle’s recent acquisition...
View ArticleComplexity and Wikinomics
What do a city, a forest, and your business ecosystem have in common? It turns out, a lot. All three are examples of complex adaptive systems. Earlier this week I spoke at a conference hosted by the...
View ArticleWould you rather own Yelp.com or Milo.com?
One of the major themes we’re exploring in our research this year is how to take a platform approach to business strategy. Two of the more interesting ones i’ve been researching lately are both driving...
View ArticleThinking about YouNoodle for the enterprise
One of the more intriguing companies I stumbled upon in the last few weeks is called YouNoodle. The company’s key product is called YouNoodle Score: a quantitative measurement, on a scale of 0 to 100,...
View ArticleGames, user experience, and retroactive Continuity–All enabled by platforms
As I may have mentioned before, Valve Software‘s Portal is a favorite game of mine. At our December 2009 Insight conference I profiled it as an example of a game that does an excellent job of making...
View ArticleMobile platform magic: Five things executives must know about mobility
The real lesson of the iPhone turned out to have very little to do with the phone at all. The iPhone–and now Android–experience underscores the versatility of business platforms and ecosystems when...
View ArticleTwitter, and the challenge of managing competitive collaborative platforms
Late last year I wrote a report for nGenera Insight clients called “The Six Phases of Twitter’s Evolution“, which focused on distinct phases the company went through, rather rapidly, in terms of both...
View ArticleThe future of free, and other prices
Friday last I got talking to Nick Black over at Cloudmade in London. Subject: How does a start-up compete with Google or Nokia? We talked about other things too, like Free. Cloudmade is a great example...
View ArticleSurvey: How are you using Facebook, Twitter, smart phones, and other...
We know that companies can create competitive advantage through collaborative platforms—from internal, project-specific wikis all the way to Twitter, Facebook, and beyond. But how are platforms...
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