The future is going to be built of communities of interest and how you can access any data from any device and share that not with a machine or another person in a one to one transaction but share it among a community of interest where you think together. I think this will forever change [...]

Property (copyleft) is only one issue. A sociable media platform does not even need to own the created content. The created sociality is the value!
Trebor Scholz - What the MySpace generation should know about working for free | Re-public : re-imagining democracy - english version
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Instead of watching TV, kids formulate comments, tag, rank, forward, read, subscribe, re-post media, link, moderate, remix, share, collaborate, favorite, and write. They flirt, work, play, chat, gossip, discuss, and learn. People value each others’ contributions because they have urgency and flavor and now mobile content contribution on cell phones, anywhere, is easier than ever.
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Im Juli 2007 wird der Basler Stadtteil Kleinbasel upgedatet: stadt2.0 will die Stadt-Surfer im Erholungsgebiet nahe dem Rheinufer mittels neoanaloger Infrastruktur zum Interagieren bringen. Mit welchen Mitteln? Im stadt2.0-Netzwerk bilden gekennzeichnete Telefonkabinen, unbedruckte Plakatwände die unterste der vier Rhein-Fähren und der Kiosk an der Feldbergstrasse 60 täglich aktualisierte Hot Spots, die Knotenpunkte also für das [...]

the interplay between cooperation and competition

I think accessibility and digital divide issues will continue to be a significant challenge to overcome since virtual worlds generally require high end computers, graphic cards, and high speed internet access. It’s a sad irony that the very populations who might most benefit from this technology might also be the least likely to have access [...]

Now, the interesting thing about a surplus like that is that society doesn’t know what to do with it at first–hence the gin, hence the sitcoms. Because if people knew what to do with a surplus with reference to the existing social institutions, then it wouldn’t be a surplus, would it? It’s precisely when no [...]

When you’re constantly traveling on a global scale, what becomes quickly evident is that convenient and available Internet access is just not there when you need it and have the time to use it. I guess that provides more justification to my theory that we, as an industry, still have much work to do to [...]

Rigide Arbeitszeiten und Hierarchien sind mega-out, gearbeitet wird nach Lust und Laune und nur, wenn es sein muss, im Büro. Dank Wi-Fi ist man rund um den Globus mit seinem Server verbunden, hat jederzeit alle relevanten Daten zur Verfügung und braucht nichts ausser einem immer kleiner und effizienter werdenden elektronischen Helfer: Laptop oder Blackberry. Bald [...]

A portable Attention Profile would allow a user to own (and optionally submit) a meta view of their interests to create instant relationships with “attention aware” products and services. This creates an instantly customized user experience.
APML wiki - “Attention Profiling Markup Lang…
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