COLLABORATIVE CREATIVITY

Yesterday, Jason McCabe Calacanis invited me to respond to his post “Has Google Been Naughty?  Yes.  Should the Government Get Involved?  No”.   You can read responses from Vivek Wadhwa and  Robert Scoble along with mine in a handy digest on the Launch blog.   The following post is the full text of my response [...]

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The advent of table computers and electronic book readers poses a serious challenge to the traditional business of book publishing.  As I’ve written previously, it’s entirely possible that the economics of print publishing will crumble faster than commonly expected. Recently I was invited to appear on “This Week In Books” to discuss the implications of [...]

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“Never make forecasts, especially about the future.” Wise advice from Samuel Goldwyn.   Which I am now about to ignore at my peril.   Here’s my take on what to expect in 2010. 1. The Dawn of Ambient Awareness & Networked Consciousness What happens when real-time status updates and news feeds are combined with GPS [...]

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Next week I will travel to Rome to give a keynote speech to the Nokia Developer Summit.   Some friends have asked me why.   Given the recent release of the Gooogle Android phone and the Apple iPhone 3G, there has been a surge of commentary about the smartphones in the tech blogs.  The general thrust of [...]

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Apple‘s legendary obsession with controlling information and availability of products has reached the tipping point.  A growing number of iPhone developers are grumbling about the arbitrary nature of the decision-making process which governs which applications get included in the iTunes storefront.   A spate of recent stories highlights what is clearly a haphazard and chaotic [...]

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