When Estonians regained independence from the former Soviet Union in 1991 they not only acquired new political freedoms, they inherited a mass of rubbish–thousands and thousands of tonnes of it scattered across illegal dumping sites around the country. When concerned citizens decided that the time had come to clean it up, they turned not […]

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It’s the first I’ve heard of a dissertation being written on mass collaboration, although I suspect there are many more out there. I have yet to read it in full, although I did note that our friend Howard Rheingold is one of the examiners. The author, Mark Elliot, points out that while Don and I […]

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Don and I have been ruminating over the potential to develop the equivalent of the human genome project for climate change and would like your input on the issue.
An optimist could argue that we’re in the early days of something unprecedented—thanks to the web 2.0 the entire world is beginning to collaborate around a […]

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Regular readers of Wikinomics.com will likely know that we’re gearing up to publish version 1.0 of the Wikinomics Playbook — the first peer produced guide to business in the twenty-first century — this fall. To keep the momentum going over the summer months we’re issuing weekly challenges to the Wikinomics community. Last week’s challenge was […]

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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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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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Sounds a little lofty to me, but this is not the first time ideas like this have come across our radar. Faithful bloggers around the world have been discussing the ideas explored in Wikinomics and wondering about the implications for their respective institutions. Here’s one from Cynthia Ware:

The 2007 book by Don Tapscott & Anthony […]

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One of our readers, Martin Kunert, wrote in to point out an “omission” in Wikinomics:

You mentioned the wikiized film created by the Beastie Boys in 2006. The first wiki-based film was in fact mine - VOICES OF IRAQ - made in 2004, where sent 150 DV cameras into Iraq and had Iraqis film their […]

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