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…
What really impresses me about the big Web 2.0 sites is how they use familiar metaphors in new ways. By starting from what we already know (such as profiles, groups, ratings, and ‘friends’), people naturally…
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…
Steve Sawyer and I organizing the second IFIP 9.1 workshop on IT and the Future of Work. With all the research focus on technologies and business models, we believe that significant changes to the nature…
What’s really new about the new generation of web sites and services? Whether we call it Web 2.0, mass collaboration, online community, or social networking, I believe what’s really new is how large-scale knowledge sharing,…
Slides from today’s social networking seminar at USF’s Center for Instruction and Technology are available here. Do social networking sites like Facebook have any ‘real’ academic uses? It’s a controversy we tried to engage. The…
Corporate entrepreneurship is the idea that large corporations can overcome their “risk-averse cultures” that “stifle innovation” and learn how to “create, develop, and sustain innovative new businesses”. I’ve prepared a new executive lecture session on…
In business schools, my academic specialization is called Information Systems. Information systems researchers study the design and use of information technology in all kinds of organized human activity: businesses, government, schools, hospitals, even social movements….