While WordCamp 2008 attendees were likely impressed with the huge number of page views (6.5 billion per year – roughly one for every person on the planet) and monthly unique visitors (up to 160 million…
Tech is back, people. Two huge reasons: Tech is still innovating big-time. Thanks to innovation, tech-centric industries (software, networks, online, services), and closely related industries (electronics, telcos, digital media, entertainment, gaming, tech consulting), are going…
Fresh from the IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS 08), slides from my talk on “How Web 2.0 Communities Solve the Knowledge Sharing Problem.” (Thanks to Andrew Clement for checking during the talk…
The rest of the economy may be going to hell, but American tech companies are still going strong. Last week’s article in Network World featured some of my thoughts on why tech is holding up,…
Does our Information Technology match our values? That’s not a question you typically hear companies asking. They usually ask: does the technology match my business and technical requirements? Requirements are the right way to think…
The newly-released book Computerization Movements and Technology Diffusion looks at how positive visions of the future convince people to invest in, adopt, and use new technologies. For many emerging technologies, rational arguments and financials aren’t…
In my recent USF talk on Alternate Reality Gaming, I used ARGs as one example of the “uneasy relationship” between the community-based, self-organizing dynamics of today’s web, and ‘normal’ businesses. Classic ARGs are not even…
The February issue of Communications of the ACM has our Alternate Reality Gaming article as the cover story. ARGs are games that mix online and real-world play, where players (sometimes thousands of them) work together…
Why the obsession with Macworld? The iPhone is hot, of course, and Macs are great machines. Steve Jobs is the 21st century genius of tech marketing. But there has to be something more fundamental to…
My new book project has the provisional title The New Web: Knowledge Sharing as a Part of Everyday Life. The book is my attempt to explain what makes Web 2.0 sites successful, but more importantly…