From the monthly archives:

February 2009

Innovation Bonds: 3 Million Jobs

by Dan Robles

Another approach for spending a Trillion dollars (backed by debt) would be for the government to issue innovation bonds (backed by innovation) to fund new enterprise.  Surely the World still greatly admires and respects American Ingenuity (social capital, intellectual capital, and creative capital) and would likely buy such a financial instrument instead of more of [...]

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If It Ain’t Broker, Don’t Fix It.

by Dan Robles

The knowledge market is the mother of all imperfect information markets. Social media is a single iteration away from greatly improving information in all knowledge markets.

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Got a Life?

by Dan Robles

Geographic Compatibility:
In the early 1990’s, traffic in Los Angeles was so horrendous, it could take hours to travel a dozen miles.  Commuting was a nightmare and the last thing anyone wanted to do was sit in more traffic.  As a single professional, every time I met a prospective lady friend, I had that elemental question [...]

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Who Owns Your Content?

by Dan Robles

The epiphany:
Something very interesting happened when Facebook changed their terms of service.   People who use the Facebook platform (for free) organized themselves using the (free) platform to threaten the core validity of the same (free) platform.  This could not happen in any other industry.
Saving face?
Ownership is largely characterized by the ability of one party [...]

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Social Media; The Engine of New Economic Growth

by Dan Robles

If social media can have such a profound effect in the REACTIVE role, what would be the underlying dynamic if applied in the PROACTIVE role ? The great new social media business models of the future will be in the areas of “The Last Mile of social media” and “Social Vetting mechanisms”.

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The Global Financial Crisis; The End Game

by Dan Robles

Likely the most optimistic projection of the future. This article predicts that social media will become the platform for an Innovation Economy.

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The US Financial System – Tail Wagging Dog

by Dan Robles

Finance and Innovation in the US is engaged in the dangerous dance of tail wagging dog. Innovation is as Wall Street does; not the other way around. This is wrong, this is very wrong.

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Necessity Is The The Mother of All Stimuli

by Dan Robles

The Ingenesist Project is to induce a crowd sourced innovation economy by integrating Social Media with three web applications. It’s all about to become extremely exciting.

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The First Mile in Social Media

by Dan Robles

The secret to finding a business case for social media can be found in “The Last Mile”. It would seem that innovators and entrepreneurs would be strafing each other to fill this vastly under served market and lucrative market segment.

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Oh, What a Semantic Web We Weave

by Dan Robles

As a test, try the following: every time you hear someone use the word “money”, simply insert the word “productivity”.

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The Résumé Must Die

by Dan Robles

Résumé: A French word for separating the brain from the body

The global imperative is for the United States to become an innovation economy now. This is an entirely different animal than the Industrial revolution; I have long argued that the résumé system is by far the most archaic knowledge management “currency” of trade in use today.

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