Sean Parker on Facebook Causes and the value of Chat Roulette

August 6, 2010

During the final sessions of the Techonomy conference, Sean Parker of the Founders Fund, Founding President, Facebook talked about Facebook Causes and why he’s obsessed with live video and why Facebook invested in Chatroulette.

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Nicholas Negroponte on the latest success of One Laptop per Child

August 6, 2010

(I’m reporting all this week at the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, California. For more coverage, check out the Techonomy blog.) At the Techonomy conference in San Francisco, Nicholas Negroponte talked about the latest success of the One Laptop per Child. The most impressive advance is that children are teaching their parents to read. Watch.

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How do you manage the new empowered workforce?

August 5, 2010

This week I’m reporting from the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe. No matter your company, everyone can seek out and get help from a distributed workforce. This panel provided some insight on unlearning traditional management techniques and adapting for the new workforce

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Wired’s Kevin Kelly on “What Technology Wants”

August 5, 2010

At the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, California, I chatted with Kevin Kelly, former Wired Magazine writer and currently author of the book, “What Technology Wants.” Kelly’s suggests that a wider definition of “technology” will allow us to see new opportunities for innovation.

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Some great advice and a really bad idea from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos

August 5, 2010

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos provided some insight on how companies need to revamp how they interact with their audience and develop product. Off camera, he provided a really bad recommendation for revamping the U.S. Senate.

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Our collective intelligence is powerful and dangerous

August 4, 2010

In the past, we haven’t been viewing history big enough to understand what makes humans unique to other species. David Christian argues that what makes us unique is our ability to collective intelligence which can bring forth innovations.

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Can we gather more ground-level data?

August 4, 2010

As countries are making ICT decisions, can we start utilizing all this phenomenal user generated data to make decisions about a country’s ICT best practices?

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Viacom and Google: Looking back at more than three years of bickering

July 19, 2010

After three years of arguing between Google and Viacom, what have we learned about the value of content, technology, and lawyers?

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How to increase the value of content without ever changing the content

July 8, 2010

Content isn’t king, it’s our perception of content that’s king. What are the techniques being used to increase the value of content without actually changing the content product itself?

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Cranky Geeks: Road warriors checking email on the toilet

July 7, 2010

In this week’s episode of Cranky Geeks, we got to arguing about the nearly half of all road warriors that check email on the toilet. We complain about what exactly is the problem with the new iPhone and we debated about how who you should and shouldn’t befriend when you start a new job.

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