Review: “What Would Google Do?”
http://boztopia.com/?p=820Amazon, amp, Anders, Apple, Ars, auto industry, bloggers, blogging, buzzword, Cerf, Clay Shirky, content creation, Creative Commons, credit, democratization, evolution, expo, format, future, gatekeepers, Google, Here Comes Everybody, hope, information, innovation, IRS, jobs, love, Mac, market, NTIA, open access, organizing, public, rebuilding, reputation, social web, something, technology, Time, Wanted, Web, YouTubehttp://boztopia.com/?p=820#comments
When I was kicking around ideas for a book, one of them was a manifesto of how the opening of information and democratization of technology could contribute to innovation in multiple arenas-from the financial sector to the auto industry, from the real-estate market to the public education system. I didn’t intuit that Google would be the avatar of this new age, but looking back, it makes perfect sense. Google’s deceptively simple advancements to Web search triggered the “link economy” that led to a host of new creations, new technologies, and new ideas.
As it turns out, that missed intuition was picked up by Jeff Jarvis, who has already taken my idea and written a better book about it than I ever could-“What Would Google Do?”
Read the rest of this entry »
When I was kicking around ideas for a book, one of them was a manifesto of how the opening of information and democratization of technology could contribute to innovation in multiple arenas-from the financial sector to the auto industry, from the real-estate market to the public education system. I didn’t intuit that Google would be the avatar of this new age, but looking back, it makes perfect sense. Google’s deceptively simple advancements to Web search triggered the “link economy” that led to a host of new creations, new technologies, and new ideas.
As it turns out, that missed intuition was picked up by Jeff Jarvis, who has already taken my idea and written a better book about it than I ever could-“What Would Google Do?”
Read the rest of this entry »