Collaboration
Friends of Friends – Thread.com
Great, so now you have a Facebook profile. And even one step further and made a few “friends”. What now? Expand your network even further by connecting with friends of friends? It opens up a whole new set of questions about the “What” and “Why”… but at least, the ability is here. Check out the [...]
Malcolm Gladwell: Human potential
Pop sociologist and best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell has honed in on a profound new question: what separates extraordinary and average people? Discussing findings from his much-anticipated book “Outliers,” Gladwell details how we’re squandering human potential everywhere from the football field to the classroom – and what we can do to change it. Tags: Collaboration, human [...]
Clay Shirky: How social media can make history
Twitter, Facebook and other forms of Social Media are continuing to change our world in ways we never imagined. Who imagined that Twitter and TXT messaging can facilitate the early waves of democracy in one of the world’s most authoritarian regime, Iran? And who imagined that in May 2008, BBC would first come to know [...]
Google Wave – another masterpiece from Google
Which one of the following communication mediums do you use the most? Email? Video Conference? Instant Messaging? Blogging? Bulletin Boards? Social Network? And if you said yes to at least 2 of the mediums above, am sure you have wished for a product that helps blur the boundaries between these products. Wait no more, Google [...]
Way-New Collaboration
Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action — and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group. As he points out, humans have been banding together to work collectively since our days of hunting mastodons. About Howard Rheingold: As Howard [...]
