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They’re Finally Saying Something New About Social Media

March 8, 2010

Now, all of a sudden, a new idea is emerging…it’s barely an audible chirp, but it will become a tectonic rumble before long: Social Media is beginning to take on the characteristics of Financial Instruments.

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When Social Media Becomes a Science

March 5, 2010

Jay Deragon posted a series of articles recently on his Relationship Economy blog which I found especially exciting. As usual, Jay is bringing forward some very important ideas related to social media components and outcomes, but what really sets this new mindset apart is the fact that Jay is asking the same questions that have been plaguing scientists for 100 years.

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Breaking The Monopoly on Money

February 10, 2010

Many people doubt that the dollar has more than a decade or so of steam left as the interest on debts mythically exceeds the total amount of money on Earth (at least in my world). Yet banks march on, heading straight for the cliff.

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Video: The Calculus of Global Outsourcing

February 8, 2010

Modern Globalization is a system – it must be analyzed like a system. Data, Information, knowledge, and Innovation are profoundly related in a system. If you take away one of the components, the others become worthless.

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Video: America; A Next Developed Country

February 5, 2010

Now that the factories are gone and the rest of the World has copied all of our tricks (while not copying our mistakes) it is time to move on. What is that next watershed economic paradigm? Who is going to figure this one out? The ones who do will define the new meaning of “A Most Developed Country”

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Video: Dollar Vs. Rallod; A Mirror Image Economy

February 4, 2010

Therefore, debt and innovation are blood brothers or mirror images of the other – they are both “currencies” (means of storing value) backed by future productivity. We can build a new economy around this concept which effectively weeds out the bad parts and keeps the good parts of the institutions and infrastructure that are already in place.

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Video: Tangible Knowledge; The Holy Grail of Social Media

January 22, 2010

What if knowledge assets were tangible? What if you owned your knowledge like a company owns a structure or specialized machinery? What if it could be quantified and qualified so that it resembles all other tangible assets? Easy answer…entrepreneurs will trade it, like money.

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Calculating The ROI of Social Media

January 18, 2010

This video introduces a new way of looking at social media valuation. People find value in social media otherwise they would not do it. How is that value expressed as a financial instrument? If you engage your clients in the same currency that they are trading among themselves, the greater the likelihood you will realize the value of the new media phenomenon.

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Pssst … Wanna Get Wasted?

January 16, 2010

This is starting to sound more like the neighborhood drug dealer than any sustainable economic paradigm: Go where your customers congregate and gain their trust by sharing your stuff. Soon, you can start to influence their behavior. Once hooked, they will do your deed for free.

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Using Social Currency To Fight Terrorism

January 8, 2010

Should a social currency credit score become imperative to social transactions as the financial credit score is for financial transactions?

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Social Media and Foreign Direct Investment

January 8, 2010

In the broadest definition, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is an investment outside the economy of the investor. Social Media has the effect of defining an economy not by an international border, but rather, by associations between people and their conversations.

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The Fundamental Flaw of NAFTA

January 1, 2010

Leading into 2010, The Ingenesist Project will release a series of videos that specify the construct of the Next Economic Paradigm. The following video discusses the flaw in modern globalization market economics that started with the failure of an obscure sub section of NAFTA – the free trade of services.

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Conversational Perjury

December 17, 2009

As brands get social, they enter the new media performing their best interpretation of a conversation. Face it, they are still going for the kill – like a wolf in sheep’s clothing – the dance of the pitch is just getting more sophisticated. Social media is powerful followed closely by the of abuse .

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Deep Web; Database of databases of databases….

December 16, 2009

We have posted a few articles about the Deep Web and presented an emerging technology project that promises to provide a database of databases for the next great development of Internet Search. This short post considers the significance of one aspect of Deep Web Search.

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Deep Web: The Data Will Set You Free

December 15, 2009

Conversational Currency Blog continues to present components of the Next Economic Paradigm as we spot the integrations. We believe that one of these features is the Deep Web, estimated to be 500 times bigger than the surface web or “Google-verse”.

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Dark Net and the Economics of Mutual Anonymity

December 14, 2009

The phenomenon to consider is that people with mutual anonymity are able to share more freely. Ironically, anonymity improves the quality of a conversation by eliminating the irrelevant data that often constrains conversation. Conversely, efforts to constrain anonymity destroys freedom of the web.

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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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Pirates, Anarchy, and the Monetization of Social Media

December 11, 2009

No sane blogger would post an article suggesting that anarchy is superior to government as a means of producing widespread cooperation…or would they? So far, the result has been phenomenally successful in social media and therefore demonstrates that anarchy may in fact work better than government.

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Fallout: FTC and Blogger Payola

December 11, 2009

The FTC recently issued guidelines for payola to bloggers. The impact and opinions are now emerging over what this means for social media. As with any game played on a new field, rules need to apply. The questions emerge regarding who the rules hurt, who they help, and how the game will develop in the future due to those rules.

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YoVille Economics

November 21, 2009

I am amazed at how many of my friends say that they do not understand economics – then I visit their facebook page only to find all the trappings of advanced economic theory. Economics is the science of incentives and currency is the medium of exchange.

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The Weakest Link; Advertising

November 9, 2009

As an Engineer, my respect for the Advertising/Marketing/PR, as an industry, is diminishing daily. I see what is gorged behind the curtain and I see what is reguritated in front to the curtain. The degree of hypocrisy defies social responsibility.

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A Taxonomy for Knowledge Inventory?

October 15, 2009

Given that a great deal of literacy is reflected in our conversations, it is not difficult to accept that much of what we say can be traced back to some book or classified publication. True, knowledge comes from experience, but knowledge is derived from information and information is classified by the Dewey system, WordThink, The Universal Decimal Classification System or any number of proprietary taxonomies.

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Coupon Search Engine – Are You Worthy?

October 9, 2009

What if many companies dropped their advertising spend into a several different buckets of cash representing various lifestyle segments? Now, suppose that the cash was distributed to social media mavens corresponding to their social media reach in the lifestyle segments. The advertisers and the amounts contributed to the buckets are fully disclosed. The Social Media mavens are compensated by their Alexa rankings – again, fully disclosed and objective. The Social Mavens are simply paid to blog their lifestyle experiences with no contract or commitment to any brand, nor retribution for any assessment – just like always.

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Twitter Vetting = Twetting?

September 14, 2009

There are 3 characteristics of financial instruments which make them tangible in a market: They live in an inventory, they are exposed to vetting mechanisms, and they are subject to constraints.

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