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 own personalized collection of Facebook applications, much the way you can customize Firefox with thousands of third-party extensions. Following [...]
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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 thinking creatively about how to bring co-creation out of the grey zone. Back in February YouTube added AudioSwap to it’s [...]
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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 tapping into the community to build software, and Wikipedia, the community-built on-line encyclopedia. But is there anybody out [...]
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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 of digital fabrication technology could eventually put the means to produce physical objects in the hands of every household and community. [...]
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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 in the same revenue sharing and promotional opportunities that are available to YouTube’s other partners.†The company gave few [...]
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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 over the private sector, the imperative to harness new models of collaboration and innovation is arriving at the doorstep of [...]
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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 treats those less reputable internet destinations demonstrates the government’s complete lack of understanding of the potential benefits of social networking. [...]
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In their 2007 bestseller Wikinomics, Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams taught the world how mass collaboration was changing the way businesses communicate, compete, and succeed in the new global marketplace. But much has changed in three years, and the principles of wikinomics are now more powerful than ever. In this new age of networked intelligence, businesses and communities are bypassing crumbling institutions. We are altering the way our financial institutions and governments operate; how we [...]
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