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Georgism; When Old Ideas Become New Again

by Dan Robles

Henry George was discredited for many ideas which are now emerging in with the increased economic influence of Social Media, social capitalism, trade of limited natural resources, and the trade of social currencies in reaction to the demise of financial currency.

Conversational Cannibalism

by Dan Robles

All of this tells us that Social Media is up against the ropes on the monetization plan. As a result it is starting to consume itself. This may be the first indication that the Dollar is NOT the currency of trade in the social media space, it’s a yet unnamed Social Currency. This definitely tells us that something new must happen soon.

The Brain-Picking Economy

by Dan Robles

[People who ask to pick your brain are either asking you to work for free or they are trying to bypass the very hard work required to build a social network by asking for your referrals].

Criminals Steal Social Agreements

by Dan Robles

A criminal can steal your time, labor, intellect and possessions, or they can just steal your social agreements and replace them with a social disagreements.

Culture: When Engagement Is Not Optional

by Dan Robles

Today we see Social Media duplicating many of the functions of earlier society by storing community wisdom, applying social vetting, and deploying social currencies.

Gowalla and Foursquare: Money is as Money Does

by Dan Robles

Money happens because people happen, not the other way around.
Wall Street has no idea what’s knocking at their door with the emergence of a new class of Social Media Applications that incorporate geolocation strategy.

The Interesting Thing About Interest Rates

by Dan Robles

The problem is that risk can never be negative, therefore interest rates can never be negative – that is called “breaking he buck”. Risk is a measure of volatility, or, “deviations from what is considered normal”. While there is certainly good deviations and bad deviations, there can never be a “negative” deviation from normal – it is a mathematical impossibility, a glitch.

The Investment Banker Vs. The Innovation Banker

by Dan Robles

Together with the financial banking, these two system engage in the dance of the virtuous circle of innovation enterprise. Apart, they collapse into the swirling cesspool of eternal debt and infinite interest (pun intended).

A Community of Knowledge Assets

by Dan Robles

Our culture organizes itself around winners and losers. Corporations reflect this competitive nature to the core of their Capitalist doctrine. Sports analogies abound across the enterprise straight through to the HR department always on the lookout for the most amount of superstar for the least amount of money.

Video: Taxonomy for Community Knowledge Inventory

by Dan Robles

ny taxonomy that is used to classify information is a candidate for the classification of knowledge. This is because knowledge is related to information in a differential equation that also includes data and innovation (another blog post).

Video: Tangible Knowledge; The Holy Grail of Social Media

by Dan Robles

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.

Calculating The ROI of Social Media

by Dan Robles

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.

Draw Your Own Org Chart

by Dan Robles

Then Robert walked around the corner. He stood next to me, applied a menacing grin, and stared my oppressors down. After a few moments, he walked away without saying a word.

Using Social Currency To Fight Terrorism

by Dan Robles

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

Political Memoirs; The Money Shot?

by Dan Robles

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

Conversational Perjury

by Dan Robles

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 .

Dark Net and the Economics of Mutual Anonymity

by Dan Robles

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.

Pirates, Anarchy, and the Monetization of Social Media

by Dan Robles

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.

Fallout: FTC and Blogger Payola

by Dan Robles

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.

The Invisible People

by Dan Robles

America does not know what Americans knows. Entrepreneurs do not know what knowledge is available to them. Markets do not know the supply and demand of knowledge assets. The self-correcting magic of market capitalism is utterly unavailable if people and their knowledge assets are invisible.

Building a Better Entrepreneur; Google 10^100

by Dan Robles

Google 10^100 award voting is Launched. There are two sectors that we believe would have the greatest impact on the greatest amount of people; building a better banking system and funding social entrepreneurs. You can’t have one without the other – if Google funds these two sectors in concert, the outcome would be incredible.

Critical Value of Conversational Currency

by Dan Robles

Can the value of conversation fluctuate when compared to a “basket of conversational currencies”? The translation is as follows; If several conversations are taking place at the same time, does yours hold more or less value depending on the value of the others?

9/11 and the Convergence Economy

by Dan Robles

My memory of 9/11 was quite personal; I was the customer engineering account manager at Boeing – my customer was United Airlines. I was fortunate to have worked with many UAL Pilots and Flight Attendants and their Unions; UAL lost 16 employees that day – I lost 16 friends.

The Vicarious Search Engine

by Dan Robles

This is how the innovation economy must play out. People must control, regulate, anonymize, and manage their own knowledge inventory. If only they could see their world through the entrepreneur’s eyes – perhaps they need a vicarious search engine more than anyone.

The Next Global Currency

by Dan Robles

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.

You Are The Algorithm

by Dan Robles

Google cannot organize knowledge because knowledge exists only within the consciousness of a person. Instead, busy little Google spiders scour the Internet looking for high rates of change of information and they use that as a proxy for “knowledge”.

The New Economic Paradigm: Part 7; Monetization of Knowledge Assets

by Dan Robles

We have specified a structure for a new economic paradigm by simply integrating the the knowledge economy into the same structure as the financial system. The result is a completely new way for entrepreneurs to create wealth.

The New Economic Paradigm; Part 6: The Business Plan

by Dan Robles

The business plan of the innovation economy is very simple; it starts with the single transaction between two people. The lender provides information and the borrower combines the information with their existing knowledge to create more knowledge.

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.

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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