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09.10.09It’s Go Time >> ChangeMedium TorontoIt's go time. ChangeMedium Toronto is slated for October 24th at MaRS. What is it? Read more to find out. Want a hand in it? Leave a comment below. What? ChangeMedium is an initiative to provoke public micro-messaging as a medium for change. Public micro-messaging (e.g. Twitter) is emerging as the most accessible, participatory public medium in history. Bringing the open and emergent properties of the web to the global reach of text messaging is already showing great potential for public benefit. But we’ve only begun to understand what’s happening let alone build an infrastructure to make the most of this medium. ...
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08.10.09“I am not a tool” – Twitter’s inflection of web and society.Image via Wikipedia Update (090811-20:51ET): The end felt incomplete - some more detail added. I've been getting some questions about how public micro-messaging is different than other social media. Why is it not just another tool? While the flip answer of "well it's public and micro and that's the difference" is correct what is more elusive is how that is changing things - an inflection in the web - and society. So let's start with 'micro'. Micro is about sms - the reach of sms means every mobile phone on the planet - or about 4 billion potential contributors. Being on ...
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08.03.09Framing our future: SoCap09I'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 ...
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07.29.09Remediating the web for action.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Image via Wikipedia"][/caption] We've become inundated with destinations, places to go, placess to post, places to read and place to make change... and the effort of aggregators seem largely only to have added another destination. And every destination seems to want us to have a conversation there. Well that's not really working either because there are just too many places asking us for conversation. Twitter however seems to be changing the game - for the first time enabling many to actually reduce the number of sources they monitor for information and the number of destinations they post at. ...
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05.26.09Twitter and the emerging medium for change -> “What are you doing?”Twitter is giving rise to the most accessible, participatory public medium in history. The implications for social change, innovation, and entrepreneurship are huge but hardly explored. In the coming paragraphs I explain what I see and call out to you, to all, to help surface what's happening and understand how it can help us create the world we want. I care because we need change like never before. If that matters to you too, please read, comment, and share. Let's see where this goes. What’s going on with Twitter (now at over 32m users - up from just ...
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05.21.09Free the Fail Whale!I think it's time to "pull a VISA" and free the Fail Whale. Back in the early days of credit cards, the banks were facing competitive and processing challenges. A number of them came together create this thing called VISA - an idea to develop and provide common standards and processing infrastructure for their competing cards. Well I think it's time to do it again for this thing called public micro-messaging. Here's why. With 3000% year over year growth, it's no question that Twitter is here to stay. It's also increasingly clear that what's behind the phenomenon is something bigger... as Om ...
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04.16.09The real-time web. Game on!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 ...
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03.13.09Reconfiguring my presence and channels.I've been unsubscribing from email subscriptions like crazy lately and have just been prompted to review my online profiles in prep for the launch of http://thread.IO. I used to want product/org updates to come to me... ones that I had requested. That seems to be changing though. I'm shifting to reliance on curation and synchronicity like never before. That means relying on Twitter, Friendfeed, Tumblr and direct notices from real people who know me to find out what's going on. It marks my trust that what needs to, will find me. This is big. And I think it's a ...
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02.06.09Researching Twitter MagicImage via CrunchBase Whether you love it, hate it or otherwise, there is something unique enabled through Twitter. I think there is something interesting and potentially powerful happening and seem to have ranted well enough to get the interest of Dr. Frances Westley, co-author of Getting to Maybe - How the World is Changed, a member of Social Innovation Generation, and the Chair of Social Innovation at University of Waterloo. Frances asked me to articulate my hunches from which we'll see what might be the most interesting research questions that someone from her team could dig in to. Though ...
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02.03.09VenTwits is alive and the adventure begins.This really began back at the StartupEmpire conference on November 14th, 2008 in the midst of Howard Lindzon’s StockTwits presentation. Today, VenTwits (^VenTwits) is live as a the first property in a series of initiatives to help things happen and create the world we want. Developed by Shouldless Inc. (^shldlss), VenTwits is a site for people building things they care about. We believe there is something special about communications that happen in public, 140 characters at a time. It seems to encourage a unique breadth and practicality of engagement such as the #hohoto party in Toronto. #hohoto emerged through Twitter (see ...
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