August 2011
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Corporate Rut
Rather, it is by creating an entirely new business model – a new form of organization, to use Schumpeter’s term – that makes possible what incumbents can, almost literally, not even dream of – not because it is beyond their imaginations but because it is beyond their desires.
Michael Raynor commenting on Schumpeter’s creative destruction and the dilemma of incumbents.
“As promised in my previous post, I’m going to tell you about how the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) (pdf) envisions an Identity Ecosystem that is more protective of your personal privacy. Today, a vast amount of information about you is collected as you surf the Internet and conduct transactions. How organizations handle that information can vary greatly, and more often than not, it’s difficult to understand how your privacy will (or won’t) be protected.”
—The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace and Your Privacy | The White House
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Teaching, I Love It
This is the best part of my job.
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And then, we got too good at it. We overlearned the game. Within the bounds of the rules of the game, we realized that there is a strategy to crafting answers to questions that guaranteed a win. The opposing teams would try to defeat this approach with more and more difficult questions, but in the end, we gave up, and stopped playing the game.
I think this problem, of overlearning the game to a point where you exploit the rules to achieve goals that are far removed, or even opposed, to the original intent of the game, is systemic in human society and permeates almost all aspects of our lives.
” —The “overlearning the game” problem - Andrew on Everything
“…we’re riding a second, much bigger wave of interactivity. It’s a convergence of TV and Internet screens and this time the interaction won’t happen via your Red Button – it’s on the web through your laptop, mobile or tablet. But most important of all, this time it’s Social.”
—Google Chairman, Eric Schmidt, Lauds Social TV and New Wave of Second Screen, Multiplatform Engagement
“Some people are just evil and we should be able to ID them and rank them downward.”
—Eric Schmidt paraphrased by Andy Carvin - Google - I’m at the Edinburgh Intl TV Festival and just got to ask a…
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iAlja's Online Hub: How to enable Profile Tag Review on Facebook? →
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This week Facebook announced some pretty neat changes to the way we share content. It is now easier to see and control who you share your content with, control the visibility of your profile elements and we have the ability to manually approve tags on photos or posts before they appear on our…
“It is the height of hubris to assume that, since all your tech friends scurried up the gangplank onto the Google Plus ocean liner, a host of other groups you claim to give a shit about will inevitably do the same, and their right to be known by a pseudonym is one you will defend to the death. Can’t you do something that would really help those you claim to defend – even if it hurts, like adopting a homeless gay teenager or donating a couple of grand to a real-world charity every year till the end of the decade?”
—Anonymous Cowards Plus ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto
