As content and people increasingly cross freely between domains in the emerging standards-based social universe, I think we'll see a shift in business models from today's focus on owning content to a new focus on owning the metadata about the content and the people interacting with the content. Tags: Analytics & ROI Distributed Community Identity Manifestoes Metadat As an information architect, I work with metadata a lot. I

Tom Haskings is groping for a synthesis of various typologies to understand both governance and relational models, and he’s making quick progress. The series starts here, under the title “ Combined models for pattern recognition “ , Tom merges David Ronfeldt’s TIMN model of governance, with the epistemological Cynefin framework by David Snowden. Tom writes : “Ronfeldt’s Networks can bring order to complex situations by providing platforms for the vast interdependencies, connectivity and emergent phenomena to express itself.

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I was reading Clay Shirky’s book "Here Comes Everybody" over the weekend, and came across another version of his great analysis in measuring participation distribution in social systems. Rather than a Gaussian Bell Curve, a more precise model is used based on a Power Law Distribution . In a pure power law distribution, the gap between the first It plays on the concept of Pareto’s principle of 80% of the work/people comes from 20% of the work/people, and also the participation inequality description from the 90-9-1 principle . Basically,

special subcase of this concerns the proprietary platforms, only Google being an exceptional case of having managed a thriving business model based on its ability to micro-target our interests. This model is not working for YouTube, Twitter and probably a host of other companies. An important question for the future is: if such business model failing turns out to be permanent, With Adam Arvidsson, I have outlined on several occasions the Crisis of Value facing capitalism, because the exponential rise in use value production (value produced by ourselves, outside of a market setting), is outpacing the linear capability of monetizing them.

Does it produce more for a community/society/environment than it takes, including balance of profit distribution v. Tags: Open Models P2P Business Model Proposed by Franco Papeschi & Tory Dunn: (details details and background here ) “1. Does the initiative help people use time to their best advantage?

Put Jeff Bezos, Pierre Omidyar, Elon Musk, Tim O’Reilly, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Nathan Myhrvold, and Danny Hillis in a room somewhere and don’t let them out until they have framed a new, massively-distributed financial system, founded on sound, open, peer-to-peer principles, from the start. So will this be more reliable and cost effective than the current model? How to best transcend the current economic mess? And don’t call it a bank.

The consolidation of open and distributed manufacturing as a real alternative, though presently operating at the margins of the economy The new model of manufacturing, based on collaborative platforms, shared designs, and distributed (relocalized) manufacturing, has definitely emerged as a practical alternative, even though it is now operating at the margins of the current system, though it’s illegal variants, such as the Shanzai system, are very important to the Chinese economy. Below, I’m focusing on trends in business and politics. WHAT DID I FORGET?

However, working, teaching and learning models in WEB 2.0 Some group systems are owned and centrally controlled by one member who made an account Distributed course landscape case 3 course moodle ...Tags: I have been busy writing the descriptions of three iCamp cases and looking back of what was actually important, what we can bring at the more general level. Previously i have not been thinking enough of the phenomenon what i would name ‘blind space’.

About | Contributors | Contact us | Subscribe: via RSS , via Twitter + sponsored by QuickBase Sponsored post : Access the 7 Tip Series from Intuit QuickBase on using Web-based software Being social at work: which communications model to adopt for the enterprise? Obviously, traditional communications models focus on the delivery of information as a top-down process, and as a result, limit the amount of shared knowledge that can be passed between the organisational silos. by Matthew Hodgson April 28, 2009 at 9:05 pm · Filed under Enterprise 2.0 , Web 2.0 , social media , social networks Web 2.0