is “little bits everywhere” – don’t force customers to come to your site, let them do purchase your products on their site, where they are, and let their social network be informed. Amazon API Amazon and eBay dominate shopping widgets – Amazon lets you embed book widgets on your blog, and you get between 4-10% affiliate revenue. Episode 3 focusses on monetizing APIs and looking at revenue streams from widgets. Companies that open their business databases and stream that data out, can have an army of hundreds of thousands (mostly) unpaid developers

Informal Learning Blog home archives about ← Learning Technology 2008 on YouTube The future of management → Adaptation February 10th, 2008 | general CLO, February 2008 Business firms evolve or die . Information spreading through network connections empowers workers to make decisions and take responsibility for them. The network era is crowding out the industrial era. Some organizations will not survive the journey.

Informal Learning Blog home archives about ← McKinsey’s Global Survey on Enterprise 2.0 The key to the effective enterprise → Social Network Dreamtime August 2nd, 2008 | general This aboriginal painting in Queensland Art Museum in Brisbane, Australia, stopped me in my tracks. Social Network Dreamtime [...] #9 Accelerating innovation — Informal Learning Blog on 02.06.09 The label said the artist’s intent was a bit murky.

Informal Learning Blog home archives about ← Seminal Enterprise 2.0 For a fee… October 6th, 2007 | general The lead article in The McKinsey Quarterly issued today is titled Harnessing the Power of Informal Social Networks . As we studied these social and informal networks, we made article now free Learning for money. → rarr; Bad advice on social networks.

Informal Learning Blog home archives about ← Out of sight, out of mind Marc, Allison, Jay, New York, Free, March 25, 8:30 thru cocktail hour → Time to change centuries February 20th, 2008 | change JAY CROSS CHALLENGES THE CURRENT PARADIGMS OF BUSINESS AND LOOKS AT HOW TECHNOLOGY AND THE WAY WE COMMUNICATE IS TRANSFORMING LEARNING Business firms evolve or die. Information spreading through network connections, empowers workers to take responsibility

Critical Information Studies For a Participatory Culture (Part One) Last thought I would share my remarks for the “critical information studies” panel through the blog since they represent a pretty good summary of some of the things I’ve been thinking about and working on over the past few years. Tim O’Reilly’s original essay encoded the “best practices” of those companies (Amazon, Yahoo, Google, among them) which had survived the dotcom meltdown, offering Henry Jenkins posted this today about participatory culture: APRIL 8,

wanted to not only break down the financial barrier to the information, but also enable communities to share it to have the content be as useful as possible in the scenarios, opportunities and problems that face them. The book is available to buy on all the major Amazon sites: Canada France Germany Japan United States United Kingdom Even if you don’t buy it, I would be hugely grateful that if you like it, please go and review it on Amazon. Home About The Book About The Author About The Editors Spread Buy / Get Reviews Grab the RSS feed Art Of Community Online Posted on September 18th, 2009 Written by Jono Bacon

The main thing for me was to chat with Affiliate marketers about how social networks pass information around. But it does show that influencers can bridge social networks carrying the information across from one community to another. If he blogs something, he creates a wave of tweets and retweets - even people not connected to Problogger gain the information, through the 6 degrees of seperation (he may not be my friend but he’s a friend of a friend so I see that While you are reading the presentation outline below I’d like you to think about the Twitter change today.

Flixster implements Open Social then you could send this information over to Netflix. This is powerful and important, because it empowersconsumers to control their data and saves people time by helping information from one service bootstrap another. The first API is really about portability of widgets and applications, while the second and third are about portability of the social graphand attention information. ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteTalk Enterprise Jobwire About Subscribe Contact Advertise RSS RWW Daily by Email RSS RWW Weekly Wrap-up Home Products Trends Best of RWW Archives R/WW Thanksgiving: Thank You Google for Open Social (Or, Why Open Social Really Matters) Written by Alex Iskold / November 22, 2007 8:39 AM / 13 Comments « Prior Post Next Post » When Google and others ganged up on

home | archives & search | rough type store | nicholasgcarr.com « Understanding Google | Main | A star for "The Big Switch" » My(Work)Space November 28, 2007 The new edition of the Financial Times Digital Business podcast is out, and it includes, among other things, a commentary from me on the contrast between formal business software applications and informal social networks like Facebook and MySpace. And then there’s the informal organization, the one shaped by the day-to-day interactions of employees – conversations in hallways or in airport lounges,