I'm looking forward to this year's Social Capital Markets conference. Last year I came way with a sense of a movement - a long term movement that was working with the balance of social and financial objectives in service of a better world for all. I'm sure this year will do much of the same - bringing the best of the movement together to share their progress and inspire those who are looking to explore 'the intersection of money and meaning'. If you are interested in this space, it's the place to be.
This year though, I'm going with a more ...
Popularized by Twitter, the public micro-messaging medium is leading to a major evolution of the web and society.
Twitter is just the beginning of this real-time internet - the simplest manifestation of this long term trend - that spells the end of communications and start of an interaction society. ~ Om Malik, What Twitter and Broadband Mean to Me.
The public micro-message medium represents the potential for a 4 billion person global message board, where anyone can share their interests, ideas, and actions real-time, and where every message can be seen, referenced, and responded to by anyone directly, person to person. This ...