Archive for September, 2009
I’ve written about my days at Andersen Worldwide and my growing appreciation for the exposure I had to leading ideas and the people who share them. One of them was Victor Millar, one of the firm’s leaders at that time. First as his presentation producer [got his slides through the audiovisual department] and then as his junior speechwriter, I got exposed to a lot of good stuff. One of the concepts was what I called his ages — the progression he took you through on the way to the Information Age and what it would mean for business. As a result, I have a great interest in looking at what… Read More
Network Age Briefing: “Agility Beyond Coding”
October 1, 2009
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One part of what is happening in the Network Age is the phenomenon of customers, fans, and communities using their networks to rapidly explore design space and ideas. We’ve also seen the rise of coding methodologies such as Agile Development radically redefine how software gets built. But what if these concepts of agility were to be applied beyond the concept of a “development project,” and applied to business strategy? In other words…how can you make a large (or small, or medium) sized business more agile and more ready to keep up with your fans?
We’ll explore this topic with Cory… Read More
Supernova is thrilled to be a small part of David Weinberger’s new efforts to document the FCC’s broadband initiative. His new blog at Broadband Strategy Week has it’s first interview. This week David talks with Blair Levin, who’s the Executive Director of the FCC’s broadband “Omnibus initiative.”
David and Blair discuss the “Broadband Strategy strategy” and what this program is actually about. Very worth checking this out.
A new show, sparked by Supernova: Heather Gold, Deb Schultz and Kevin Marks talk “tummeling:” the art of energetically bringing things together: tech, culture, business and people. Watch and join in the pilot on http://twit.tv tonight, Tues Sept 22nd, at 7pm PST/10pm EST
The back story, according to Heather:
Kevin is was at the microphone at the Supernova conference a year or two ago addressing Clay Shirky who had presented his now classic book Here Comes Everybody. Kevin was insistent that there was often more to people randomly connecting and just showing up at places together. There must be people and methods which who played a serious role in making this thing happen. How do you… Read More
On the heels of last week’s “China in the Network Age/Why Twitter and Facebook Should Forget About China” call (recording here), there were three great presentations that were shared by the presenters. Most definitely worth checking out.
Number 1:
Comparison of Western Internet Companies in China v. Chinese Internet Companies in the World
Web2 Asia Startonomics Beijing
View more presentations from web2asia.
Number 2:
A Market Cap Overview of China’s Top 30 Internet Companies (read the post here)
Rank
Company
Market Cap
Stock Exchange
Description
1
China Mobile
US$ 214 Billion
NYSE/SEHK
Nationwide Mobile Telecommunication Provider
2
China Telecom
US$ 39.71 Billion
NYSE/SEHK
Nationwide Telecommunication Provider
3
China Unicom
US$ 32.44 Billion
NYSE/SEHK/SSE
Nationwide Mobile Telecommunication Provider
4
Tencent Holdings
US$ 26.8 Billion
SEHK
Internet & Mobile Phone Value Added Service… Read More
At the Supernova DC mixer I interviewed Dr. Jon Peha, a Carnegie Mellon professor in the Department of Engineering & Public Policy and the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. Jon’s describes his role at the FCC in this interview, and discusses a bit about the the national broadband plan. He predicts a future with more possible tech solutions than we have today to access the net, as well as different service configurations.
He also briefly discusses Mesh Networks with me, and the pros and cons of making us all nodes in a network.
Thanks again to Dr. Peha for spending time with Supernova Hub.
Network Age Briefing: “Is The Web REALLY Exceptional?”
September 23, 2009
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“Exceptionalism is the perception that a country, society, institution, movement, or time period is ‘exceptional‘ (i.e., unusual or extraordinary) in some way and thus does not conform to normal rules or general principles. Used in this sense, the term reflects a belief formed by lived experience, ideology, perceptual frames, or perspectives influenced by knowledge (or lack thereof) of historical or comparative circumstances.” (source: Wikipedia)
Join us for a thought-provoking Network Age Briefing with David Weinberger on September 23 at 1pm EDT / 10am PDT to discuss “Is The Web REALLY Exceptional?” On August 28 of this year, David wrote:
“We hear… Read More
With Isabel Walcott Draves
“We kept looking for multitaskers’ advantages in this study. But we kept finding only disadvantages. We thought multitaskers were very much in control of information. It turns out, they were just getting it all confused.” — Eyal Ophir, Communication Between Humans and Interactive Media Lab, Stanford University quoted in the New York Times, 8/30/09
The results of the recent Stanford study didn’t come as a surprise to Linda Stone, the high-tech writer and consultant who coined the term “continuous partial attention” in 1997 and was featured in one of Supernova’s Network Age Briefing, “Disconnecting in the Network Age.”
I asked Linda to talk a little bit about her own… Read More
Web and chat: http://tobtr.com/s/662500
When: 9/15 4:00 pm PDT / 7:00 pm EDT – 9/16 7:00 am Beijing time.
Most Western coverage of the Internet focuses on the narrative of censorship and control, but misses the vibrant social nature of what is now the largest internet market of the world. In the West, the internet started in business/academia/government, fulfilling mostly functional & utilitarian needs. But in China, the internet started as a consumer phenomenon, focused on entertainment and communications. Also, like most of the developing world, China’s internet has developed hand-in-hand with the growth of mobile, Internet-connected devices – about 25% of total internet users access the internet NOT on a PC… Read More
