Earlier this year I submitted a proposal to the Graham Foundation for a Research and Development 2009 Grant.
Last week I found out it was not accepted for the final review. Understandable and expected. But since the proposal was about workspaces, a repeated topic of mine, I decided to share the full proposal, reprinted [...]
Tag Archives: social
Workspaces: How We Work and Our Changing Workspaces
November 3, 2008 – 8:49
Conscious consumption requires a different approach to marketing
August 20, 2008 – 10:21
Social | Bangkok, Thailand | Aug 2005
Albert Wenger at USV:
There are good reasons to believe that structural change to smaller units and individuals will continue and offers opportunities for new marketplaces.
Marketplaces as organizations; exchanges instead of firms.
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In the near future, advertising will no longer be the default revenue model for web startups. To start: [...]
Reality Check
June 6, 2008 – 8:28
Faces, Ellis Island Museum, New York City, New York
Most people I know:
Do read articles on the web.
Do not read things written by individuals, preferring “traditional media”.
Do not write or share their own opinions online (e.g. write a blog).
Do not comment on website articles.
Prefer to debate and talk about ideas in person with people they know.
Visit [...]
Do we need a new funding model for starting businesses?
June 4, 2008 – 0:12
Three separate issues / trends that I’m looking at, and hoping to address:
Entrepreneurship: An increasing interest by younger people entering the workforce to create their opportunities (forming or joining startups or smaller companies) rather than have their opportunities handed to them (joining a larger company).
Collaboration: Rapidly decreasing startup costs [1] and continued development and usage [...]
Why does a combination of great individuals become an ineffective group?
June 2, 2008 – 17:40
Originally titled “How can groups hack?”, I decided to change the title June 22, 2008.
This is exactly what I need to read on a Monday morning:
Hacking means taking things that suck and making them better.
Sidenote: For my non-tech friends, don’t let the language obscure the meaning. Although we think of hacking as a [...]
Thoughts: Metadata, Conversations and Creating Businesses
May 20, 2008 – 8:40
Two weeks ago I realized I was using the wrong hashtag to follow the Twitter conversation at SocialDevCamp, thus completely missing out on the backchannel conversation.
(If I haven’t lost you yet just hold on, hopefully I’ll explain what I mean in non-tech terms.)
What is metadata? In my admittingly loose use of the term, metadata [...]
Is the context of time the untapped issue in social media development?
May 19, 2008 – 9:04
What is the next force that will drive development and user expectations for web services?
The prevailing opinion I have heard is that it’s about context-based personalization.
Social context is obviously a top-of-mind focus of personalization at the moment, with a range of services attempting to bring aspects of social context into their services. The examples [...]
Where do we want to work?
April 23, 2008 – 11:43
Internet Shop, McLeodganj, Himanchal Pradesh, India
How many of you are most effective at your desk at the office? Why?
What is the best place for you to communicate with the people you work with? Do you need to be physical proximity?
At one time working from home was a big change in the [...]
Splintering Conversations
Public Blackboard, Charlottesville, VA
How much of your day do you spend communicating with people in some way?
Has it always been that way? Before radio, TV, telephones, the telegraph, email, mobile telephones and the variety of online communication tools, how much time did people spend communicating? Is the nature of our communications different? [...]