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The Monetization Mystery

January 14, 2010

Show me how everyone is related and I’ll show you a new economic paradigm. Here is how they are not related:

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Political Memoirs; The Money Shot?

January 6, 2010

One must seriously ask, how exactly do political memoirs increase human productivity?

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Deep Web Search

December 13, 2009

Deep Web Search Engine is here. This represents a new economic paradigm since increasing the available information increases the rate of change of knowledge across diverse communities. Keep your eyes on this one – it’s a big one.

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Community Currency; Ithaca Hours

November 6, 2009

Many communities are giving up waiting on large corporations or government to invest or provide jobs, and are instead building on their own strengths and resources.

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A Local Currency Primer; Comfort Dollars

November 2, 2009

As more corporate and governmental institutions fail to meet the needs of society, people will need a currency that they can trade among each other. If the dollar fails, the need will be dire.
The difficulties that will ultimately limit such enterprise is the inability to capitalize and securitize a social currency.

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1.3 Trillion Dollar Professional Contact Market

June 30, 2009

It is only a matter of time until professional contacts will be for sale. The problem is that the ROI (return on investment model) is such a poor valuation tool for social media.

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Is the Corporate Structure Obsolete?

June 24, 2009

In short, we have seen social media replace or duplicate almost every structural element of the traditional corporation outside of the construct of corporations. Can social media provide a corporate structure in and among itself?

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The Next Global Currency

May 26, 2009

Charging interest on money was at one time illegal. The concept of “interest” was legitimized by the argument that lenders needed to be compensated for the risk that they assumed. As such, currency is married to risk and not necessarily actual productivity.

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The Currency of Transformation

May 19, 2009

Information, knowledge and innovation are distinct phases of human intellect which are profoundly related. The vehicle for transformation across these phases is the “conversation”.
The next economic paradigm will introduce thousands of convertible currencies in the form of infinite conversations. Those currencies will be converted in infinite combinations for infinite applications each time adding value.

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The New Economic Paradigm; Part 5: The Entrepreneurs

April 9, 2009

There is no shortage of entrepreneurs in this world. 6 Billion of them wander the Earth looking for assets that exists at a low state of productivity waiting to be elevated to a higher state of productivity.

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The Next Economic Paradigm; Part 4: Institutions

April 7, 2009

In this module, we will discuss the institutions in social media that could keep an Innovation Economy, free, fair, and equitable.

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The Next Economic Paradigm; Part 3: Knowledge Inventory

April 6, 2009

Most companies have an inventory of every nut, bolt, rivet, or panel that they need to build something tangible. In innovation economy, we will need to have an inventory to assemble knowledge assets so that we can build something tangible

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The Next Economic Paradigm; Part 2, Currency

April 5, 2009

Everywhere people are trading information and ideas with each other at an incredible rate. All of this information adds up to something because obviously things get built and stuff rolls off the assembly lines. People act on information obtained from each other to produce things.

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Who Owns Your Content?

February 21, 2009

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 [...]

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Necessity Is The The Mother of All Stimuli

February 10, 2009

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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To Awaken a Giant

January 23, 2009

“Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year. Our capacity remains undiminished”. – Barak Obama . The gloves are off: Mr. Obama’s statement is profound; in a single [...]

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Web 3.0; An Elephant Never Forgets

December 18, 2008

The opportunity for America reminds me of the elephant that is convinced since birth that the slender rope tying him to the fence post is stronger than he.  When the elephant grows up, he still believes the rope is stronger even though the elephant now has gained the strength to pull the whole building down.  [...]

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The Great Convergence

December 8, 2008

Hey Kids, It’s 3D: The objective of this article is to discuss the Great Convergence of computer enabled society. Social media must not be allowed to converge to a single apex – rather, it must converge to 3 distinct and tangible dimensions. The factors of production for the industrial economy are land, labor, and capital.  [...]

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Finally, A Definition for Innovation

December 5, 2008

[In earlier post we identified the 5 essential elements of a market economy. What would be the currency of an innovation economy? Currency is anything that serves as a medium of exchange, a stored value, and a standard of value. Basically we are asking; What are those things that people are out in the World [...]

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Factors of Production for an Innovation Economy

December 2, 2008

Many years ago, economists from the industrial revolution identified three variables (productive inputs) for building industries; Land, Labor, and Capital.  The rate of output was related to how these inputs were combined. If any of these factors of production were missing, the other two had little or no utility for production.  The concept of Land, [...]

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The Next Great American “Hail Mary” Pass

December 2, 2008

It is imperative that knowledge workers recognize this opportunity. We must have a national conversation about the next great leap and not just dwell on the current quagmire or roll over while the dark ages set in.

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Social Media; The Opportunity of a Century

December 1, 2008

The Perfect Storm: We are at an historic time in human history; one that may never repeat itself again. The current financial crisis may provide just enough disruption for a completely new economic paradigm to emerge; the Innovation Economy.  We cannot squander this moment arguing over common logon for our Twitter and Facebook profiles; a [...]

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Social Media; A Public Innovation System

November 21, 2008

In order to restructure our financial system; we first need to restructure our innovation system.  ALL of the top ten reasons for business failure are due to a lack of knowledge, not a lack of money. Top 10 reasons why businesses fail: 1.    Lack of an adequate, viable business plan 2.    Insufficient sales to sustain [...]

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Social Media; The Central Bank for Knowledge Assets?

November 20, 2008

It is very interesting to watch Social Media follow familiar trajectories as earlier paradigms in finance.  I see many social media platforms struggling to make human knowledge tangible in their respective markets.  The challenge is so simple, yet so complex.  Let the litmus test for knowledge tangibility be as follows; “Can you buy groceries with [...]

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