Wind instruments were the first computers, with the notes and silence being binary information. Chris Messina from Google gave a solid review of the history of online streams, with his take being that we are essentially stuck in the RSS / late 90s portal mentality. I’m in Austin for SxSWi (South by Southwest interactive) with several colleagues from Forum One and several thousand colleagues from around the world working in the digital and interactive fields. The “festival” is a nonstop series of keynotes and panel discussions during the day, and social events and meetups

Network maps are diagrams of lines or arrows (representing connections) and nodes (representing individuals, organizations, ideas) that can visually communicate tremendous amounts of information much more easily than volumes of text. Verna emphasizes the importance of including both contracted tangible exchanges such as money, and intangible ones such as information. Steve Waddell of Networking Action Excerpts from an excellent blog from ValueNetworks.com colleague and customer, Steve Waddell of Networking Action We can easily be overwhelmed by the complexity of large networks where there are many different organizations and people involved.

Yet never before have companies had such powerful technologies for interacting directly with customers, collecting and mining information about them, and tailoring their offerings accordingly. Information about customers consisted primarily of aggregate sales statistics augmented by marketing research data. This strategy may be more challenging for firms whose distribution channels own Harvard Business Review Cart My Account Downloads Explore Today on HBR Blogs Magazine Books Authors Store Harvard Business School