Monthly Archive: December 2006

Los múltiples retos de la innovación: de los menguantes actores tradicionales a los nuevos protagonistas

Arthur Schopenhauer: “Toda verdad pasa por tres etapas. Primero, es ridiculizada. Segundo, es violentamente rechazada. Tercero, es aceptada como evidente.“ (tomado de aquí).

La importancia de la innovación por los usuarios y de los modelos abiertos de gestión se están convirtiendo en verdades casi universalmente aceptadas pero, aún, muy poco Continue reading »

• December 27, 2006
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Financial business opportunities

Demand for credit seems to be an ever-growing market, highlighted by the West's obsession with paying for everything on plastic cards. Card spending in the UK, for example, continues to soar and a cumulative total of £470 billion was spent by Britons on cards in 2005 according to research undertaken Continue reading »

• December 20, 2006
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Is Social Networking Really Bad for You?

This is the last post by Charlie Leadbeater for 2006. Thanks! He has done a great job. Below he ponders what this social revolution online does for children, the media and the economy in general.....More to come in 2007.

• December 18, 2006
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Notas sobre o eletrocooperativismo

Como falar de uma experiência coletiva de transformação humana, sem incidir em uma teorização vazia? Como fazer jus ao brilho nos olhos de quem dela participa? Será que valerá a pena se isso por si só não transformar, a mim que tento Continue reading »

• December 17, 2006
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Open Business frente a la corrupción

Es evidente que me preocupa la percepción que la sociedad en su conjunto tiene de la empresa. A fin de cuentas paso mucho tiempo en empresas y trabajo para aportar mi grano de arena de cara a mejorar su gestión. Por eso Continue reading »

• December 16, 2006
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Catalyzing Creativity With Creative Commons

Imagine the following scenario. You go to a New Years Eve celebration. Your plan is to shoot lots of great video of all the festivities, your drunken friends, and the huge fireworks display at midnight. Monday morning you'll edit the video and send Continue reading »

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Point, Click, Make & Sell to the world

Amazon might turn out to be the real OpenBusiness provider. That's at least how their new business strategy sounds like: from user generated content, to user generated jeans, cars and what have you. Though I would think ebay, google and some others will Continue reading »

• December 15, 2006
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Charlie Leadbeater: Social Networking: Its Own Worst Enemy?

The greatest threat to the continued rise of social networking and collaborative media production may be its own success, or rather the interest it is attracting from venture capitalists and others. Over inflated prices for companies and over ambitions claims almost inevitably Continue reading »

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Take The Technology To The Eyeballs

When we started Eyespot we decided against creating a destination site. Competing for customers in an increasingly commoditized business (video hosting, social networking) was not something that appealed to us. It was clear at the time that there would be hundreds of video Continue reading »

• December 14, 2006
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2nd MiniBar recording

The second Minibar happened last Friday and perhaps because it was christmas season everybody got a bit silly. At the same time we had a great crowd ranging again from key geeks to media journalists, some artists to designers and even Continue reading »

• December 13, 2006
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