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A Better Way To Occupy Wall Street

October 10, 2011
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All we need to do is shift the factors of production to something else. We don’t actually need to shift Wall Street, we need to shift ourselves.

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It Is Time To Evolve

October 4, 2011
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This is a very easy problem to solve and we have all the cards waiting to be stacked in our favor using the tools that are right in front of our collective noses.

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The Geek Shall Inherit The Earth

September 26, 2011
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“it’s bad enough when we lose the accounting profession, but dear God help us if we lose the Engineers”

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A Radical Twist on Crowd Computing

September 13, 2011
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Imagine this, if the organizations at Innotribe were to integrate to create a new economy that is only slightly more efficient the old system, they may become the mother of all hedge funds. Remember the dictator caught without social currency? At least half the money in the world will convert, capitalize, and securitize in social currency. We may not be that far off from that day.

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New Economies; May The Best Street Win

September 7, 2011
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For the exact same effect as a Groupon, people can trade options on goods and services while hedging against Wall Street and restoring community Values. Don’t just change the game, just change the street that it is played on….

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New Economies at SIBOS; The Metacurrency Project

September 2, 2011
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The idea that Energy can exist is many forms cannot be separated from the fact that Value can and must also exist in many forms. The challenge that we face as a civilization is to build an economy that articulates all Value completely and truthfully.

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The True Economy, The True Value

August 31, 2011
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It is essential that we define Value much more completely than just those things that can be articulated with money and shift to include all forms of Value in our entrepreneurship. The Sun delivers value to the Earth. Parents deliver value to their children. Communities deliver value to society. A true accounting of all value is essential to the discussion of new economies.

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Another Opportunity To Observe Social Currency

August 23, 2011
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Anyone who does not believe that social currency exists today and is actively traded, stored, and exchanged in quantities far greater than financial currency, is looking in the wrong end of their binoculars. In fact, I would go so far as to say that the economy denominated in social currency is far greater than the economy denominated in financial currency.

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SIBOS 2011 – The Power Of Tribes

August 16, 2011
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Only after these components have developed to a sufficient degree and become integrated with each other, a social currency will emerge. It is wrong to say that a social currency comes first and all the rest will follow. The new currency will come AFTER the integration of Social Media.

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People Are Corporations Too

August 13, 2011
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Mitt provides us with a looking glass into the fundamental differences between the rich and the poor. The rich see themselves as the proxy for the prosperity of the poor. Meanwhile, the poor see themselves as the proxy for the prosperity of the rich. Neither side admits that they need each other,

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OWN Your Travel Game

August 1, 2011
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These vendors pay and extraordinary amount of money on business intelligence, Groupons, and social media campaigns trying to discover YOUR intentions data.

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How Can Startup Fundraising be Gamified?

July 27, 2011
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Build the knowledge inventory and all the money in the world will have no other place to go. That’s the game that we need to play right now.

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Virtual Hub And Spoke System

July 26, 2011
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The organization of people it figuratively (with G+) and literally (with corporations) is the exact same thing. This will become obvious when people discover the necessity to organize their selves into productive communities. But why wait – we can, and we will use social media to form a new system of social organization.

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BizDev with Cascading Info Game

July 18, 2011
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Social Flights would also be subject to the Cascading Information Theory, thus demonstrating how a corporation would enhance their own engagement, loyalty, influence, and time-quality in the communities where they operate.

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The Raw Material of Social Org Games

July 14, 2011
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When a person states their intention to fly to a distant place, this creates immensely valuable data. Such information is highly specific and even quite intimate because people share their hopes, dreams, and aspirations when they meet, travel, learn together.

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The Game and The Counter-Game

July 7, 2011
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The Value Game does not kill the Financial Game, rather, it challenges, corrects, and improves it. The Value game has reached a critical milestone – it has been funded in dollars by investors.

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Why This Bubble Is Completely Different

July 5, 2011
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As our noble politicians continue to play their game of chicken with the productivity of honest, educated, and productive Americans, they fail to see the polarity shifting away from money and into “true value”.

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When The Customer, Supplier, And Competitor Are The Same

June 27, 2011
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The most disruptive innovations follow a similar path when a small uprising emerges to delivers a superior value proposition. Large corporations may be faced with a disruptive force that they never anticipated – social virtualization.

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The Human Infrastructure Game

June 25, 2011
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In this scenario; 32 seats must be filled to support a flight plan for two round trips in an 8 person aircraft AND the 3 steps outlined for each and every flight remain relatively constant – only their order may change.

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The Gamification of Air Travel

June 23, 2011
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What if a person with high Social Flights Frequent Flier Miles represented a better social influence predictor than say, a Klout score or Twitter follower count? Would vendors want to know who these magical people are? Will vendors compensate them for their influence in a community? Wouldn’t the community then define the ads that get pitched?

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The Art and Science of Social Sudoku

June 3, 2011
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With that, I invite our readers to try and imagine what skill set would be the starting condition for an iterative process of finding hundreds of entrepreneurial community leaders that can solve this puzzle. I am leaning more and more toward the Gaming community on sites like http://gamification.org to find this skill set. Any thought?

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Are We Hard Wired?

May 31, 2011
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Social Flights is attempting to do something that has never been accomplished in social media with such high value shared assets. We seek to answer the question: Can people organize themselves around the concept of “Value” much like we have organized ourselves around the concept of “Money”.

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Control The Information And Control The Game

May 9, 2011
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A Value Game depends on the control of information. If someone else controls the information – they control the Value and there can be no game. Technology is deployed to the game – the game is not deployed to the technology.

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How To Use Data Correctly

May 5, 2011
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The Value Game does not need to know your name, address, phone number, or credit score to compile useful information. The Value Game does even need to know such information about your friends, family, or professional relationships. Nobody needs to know your private information – unless they intend to use your data incorrectly. After all, they need to know who to restrict your data from – you.

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