Wikinomics has hit a few milestones recently. First, we’ve now reached over 100,000 copies in print. Second, there are plans for an expanded edition with a new chapter and a new introduction. Portfolio (our publisher) is aiming for an early 2008 release date. Finally, foreign editions of the book are starting to appear on bookshelves […]

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Facebook is the latest web 2.0 poster child to blow open the windows and unlock the doors by harnessing a platform strategy.
In a bid to become the mother-of-all social networking platforms, Facebook is opening up its APIs so that third party developers can add new features and functionality. Users will be able to assemble their […]

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In a recent post on Lucas Film’s decision to open up the Star Wars archive to creative remixers around the world, my coauthor Don Tapscott says “the fate of content creation and distribution on the web will be bogged down by legal wrangling for years.” It seems, however, that George Lucas isn’t the only one […]

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Ideagoras are emerging everywhere these days, from veterans like yet2.com to a recent entrant called Insight — an ideagora for business analysts. Great idea in my view:

Insight is a new on-line community dedicated to those of us who want to use our passion for numbers to make a difference.
You know about open source, which is […]

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In Wikinomics, we argued that personalized manufacturing could at last make us genuine producers of the everyday objects that have long been the province of large-scale industrial manufacturers. Just as the information revolution placed the means to manipulate information and media in the hands of everyone within reach of a computer, a similar wave […]

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YouTube’s recent announcement that the company will now share advertising revenue with premier content providers will represent one of the most important milestones in the emergence of “user-generated media” as a major force in the media and entertainment industry.
According to YouTube’s blog, contribtors, including Lonelygirl15, LisaNova, renetto, HappySlip, smosh, and valsartdiary, “will begin to participate […]

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Although Wikinomics was mostly about business, Don and I have always felt that the wikinomics era holds the promise and the inevitability of new models for delivering the functions of government. Our conversations with public sector leaders over the past few months have really reinforced this view. Just as new waves of innovation are washing […]

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New Paradigm researcher Paul Artiuch points out that the Ontario government has announced that it is set to ban the popular social networking site Facebook from all government workplace computers. Users will receive the same “access denied” message they would get when trying to access pornographic or gambling sites. Treating Facebook the same way it […]

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