The creative class: Networked, high performing and disillusioned

It's no longer the distinction between management and rank-and-file that makes sense in a service-dominated economy, if it ever did in a manufacturing dominated world, but the quality of performance along the scale of creativity and actual contribution.

CrunchUp Tackles Real-Time

Yesterday, about 600 Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, VCs, and social media geeks piled into the historic Fox Theatre in Redwood City for the 4th annual TechCrunch CrunchUp. Instead of turning off our cellphones and keeping it dark and quiet, we filled the room with the blue glow of laptop screens and the rainstorm sound of typing. And instead of sitting back for a summer blockbuster movie, we watched Robert Scoble on the big screen, video streaming live from England.  (Well, okay, there were other panels and presentations, too.)

The topic of the day was Real-Time Streams, and it focused on the usual suspects: Twitter, Facebook, Twitter, Friendfeed,... Read More

Take Supernova Video Interviews With You

Just a quick update to let you know that the Supernovahub Video interviews with Kevin Werbach, David Weinberger, John Borthwick and JP Rangaswami are now available as a podcast on iTunes. You can subscribe to the Supernova channel on iTunes or if you use a different podcatcher, get the episodes directly from the Supernovahub RSS feed on Blip.Tv.

More interviews are coming soon, so subscribe today.

Open Thread: Supernova 2009 topics

We've listed some planned session topics on the About page. We welcome your input. What are we missing? What should we make sure to address at this year's event? And what topics are stale or overdone? Comment on this blog post with your suggestions.

Editor’s Note: Welcome to the New SupernovaHub

For the past seven years, the Supernova Conference has brought together a incredible cast of thinkers (and doers) from a wide variety of disciplines. Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsysystems, has said “Supernova brings us out of the weeds and into the real action, bringing together the right folks, and right forum, to advance the debate” while Joi Ito, CEO of Neoteny, commented “It was totally worthwhile. I’m addicted now.” Even Mike Nelson, Director, Internet Technlogy and Strategy at IBM, went so far as to say “In terms of the useful stuff I learned per speaker, your conference was the best I’ve ever attended.”

The conference has its groove, but... Read More