Sweden just announced that it will be become the first country to set up a virtual embassy in Second Life. The in-game embassy will serve as one of the country’s primary information portals for tourists and other users. Could your company, government agency, or non-profit organization benefit from a similar presence in this dynamic virtual [...]

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Wikinomics readers in Toronto may be interested in the following BarCamp get together this coming Sunday February 4, 2007. It’s organized by a network of Toronto bloggers who are keen to help the local transit authority improve many aspects of its operations, starting with its dismal web site. If you’ve lived in Toronto most of [...]

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One of the great things about the new business environment is that we’re starting to see a lot of experimentation with different models for organizing creative/commercial endeavors that rest on various degrees of openness, peering, and sharing. The really interesting models are the hybrid ones where project/business leaders manage to blend mass collaboration with a [...]

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Having worked with some of the strategy and intellectual property folks at IBM over the past few years I’ve come to regard them as some of the most progressive and thoughtful people on the planet when it comes to rethinking the nature of intellectual property system and fixing the ailing patent system. IBM recently launched [...]

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A few weeks ago I blogged about the fact that too few government agencies were leveraging their enormous stores of data in ways that could contribute directly to the public good. While leaders in the non-profit community are coming up with brilliant data-based Web applications such as scorecard.org and NKCA, the vast majority of government [...]

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Anamik Saha of Goldsmith’s University in London tipped me off about a new online journal called Re-public. The journal is currently featuring a fascinating series on the future of “the commons” and intellectual property in a connected world. The series includes contributions from Richard Stallman, Dougalss Rushkoff, and Michael Bauwens. I’m looking forward to reading [...]

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Continuing on the intellectual property theme, news surfaced today that Apple is threatening to sue the folks behind iPhony, a cloned version of Apple’s iPhone user interface that Steve Jobs unveiled a few days ago. The iPhony “skin” provides users who download it with a look-a-like set of icons that they can load on smartphones [...]

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In Wikinomics, Don Tapscott and I argued that the conventional view of intellectual property is ill suited to an economy where large-scale collaborations are increasingly the norm. Some recent research we’ve been conducting on the Net Generation–the first generation to be socialized in a world of digital communications–has really reinforced that view.
We first got a [...]

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I’m very pleased to announce that The Wikinomics Playbook, the “unwritten chapter” of Wikinomics, and the first peer-produced guide to business in the twenty-first century, just launched in beta-mode yesterday. We’ve already had over 300 people sign up to participate and changes are happening on the wiki right now.
For anyone who isn’t familiar with what [...]

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