I recently found out that Wikinomics has been nominated as one of six finalists for the prestigious Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.
This year’s competition for the Business Book of the Year Award drew more than 150 entries. The judges, which include such luminaries as Lionel Barber, editor of Financial [...]

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My Wikinomics co-author Don Tapscott has an interesting post on Wiki cities over on wikinomics.com. He discusses the “Wiki City Rome” initiative, a project led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that uses data from cellphones and other wireless technology to illustrate the city’s pulse in real time. The project features a giant on-screen display [...]

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British psychologist Will Reader presented research today suggesting that social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace do not help users make genuinely close friends. Users may amass hundreds or even thousands of acquaintances, however Reader claims that face to face contact is nearly always necessary to form truly close friendships.
The research, based on a survey [...]

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A few weeks ago the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office opened an online forum where citizens can contribute their thoughts on the government’s foreign policy priorities. Several hundred comments have been posted to date.
Such forums have become more numerous as governments have slowly awakened to the opportunities that the Internet provides to exercise the democratic [...]

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