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• New Rules for the New Economy
  November 19, 2012
• Because the nature of the network economy seeds…
  November 1, 2012
• In the network economy, ownership is fragmented…
  July 26, 2012
• Fourth, the Silicon Valley model of compensation…
  May 25, 2012
• Third, the same type of fine-grained…
  May 23, 2012
• Second, as the ease and price of transactions drop,…
  May 21, 2012
• First, the spread of ownership is becoming global,…
  May 18, 2012
• This network equity is made possible by…
  May 16, 2012
• Networks promote this equity culture.
  May 14, 2012
• The sources of capital, which in the industrial age…
  May 11, 2012
• The network economy will unleash opportunities…
  May 9, 2012
• Maximize the opportunity cascade.
  May 7, 2012
• Scout for upside surprises.
  May 4, 2012
• Why can’t a machine do this?
  May 2, 2012
• Our minds will at first be bound by old rules
  April 30, 2012
• “Need” is a loaded word.
  April 27, 2012
• A dry room with running water,…
  April 25, 2012
• Needs are neither fixed nor absolute.
  April 23, 2012
• Faster than the economy can produce…
  April 10, 2012
• It takes 56 hours of wasting time on the web…
  April 5, 2012
• Before the World Wide Web there was Dialog.
  March 26, 2012
• The network economy is destined to be a fount…
  March 2, 2012
• Opportunities and productivity work hand in hand…
  February 29, 2012
• At this point we are still in just the third decade…
  February 27, 2012
• There is no doubt that many past purchases…
  February 17, 2012
• In the coming era, doing the exactly right…
  February 15, 2012
• Where humans are most actively engaged…
  February 13, 2012
• Productivity, however, is exactly the wrong thing…
  February 9, 2012
• There is more to be gained by producing more…
  February 7, 2012
• “Don’t solve problems; pursue opportunities.”
  February 3, 2012
• As the transmission of knowledge accelerates,…
  February 1, 2012
• Oil paint, keyboard, opera, pen…
  January 30, 2012
• Long before Beethoven sat before a piano…
  January 25, 2012
• We can rearrange more than just bits.
  January 19, 2012
• Every opportunity seized…
  January 16, 2012
• It is this expanding space of opportunities…
  January 13, 2012
• It is not money the Great Asymmetry accrues,…
  January 11, 2012
• The ratchet is the Great Asymmetry…
  January 9, 2012
• Over the long run, the world’s economy has grown,…
  January 6, 2012
• Don’t Solve Problems; Seek Opportunities
  December 28, 2011
• Imagine your customers as employees.
  December 19, 2011
• All things being equal, choose technology…
  December 1, 2011
• Connect customers to customers.
  November 28, 2011
• Make customers as smart as you are.
  November 17, 2011
• The network economy is founded on technology…
  November 15, 2011
• At the end of the month I get a privacy statement…
  November 11, 2011
• We see the first inklings of this trust machinery…
  November 9, 2011
• One of chief chores in the network economy…
  November 7, 2011
• Privacy is a type of conversation.
  November 3, 2011
• The technologies of relationships will not ease…
  November 1, 2011
• A conversation is a pretty good model…
  October 21, 2011
• Information shifts toward the peerage of customers…
  October 11, 2011
• Expertise now resides in fanatical customers.
  October 7, 2011
• A user group is a peerage of responsibility.
  October 5, 2011
• And whoever has the smartest customers wins.
  October 3, 2011
• Letting the customer learn with help from the firm…
  September 16, 2011
• Good products and services are cocreated:
  September 7, 2011
• As in other technological evolutions…
  September 5, 2011
• The beauty of network logic is that the mechanics…
  September 2, 2011
• Online booksellers such as…
  August 31, 2011
• The real power of this system…
  August 29, 2011
• To anticipate what a customer wants.
  August 26, 2011
• Since a relationship involves two members…
  August 17, 2011
• To remember what a customer wants.
  August 15, 2011
• To create what the customer wants.
  June 27, 2011
• The drive to relate to the consumer intimately,…
  June 22, 2011
• The premise of mass customization is simple.
  June 20, 2011
• In the network economy, producing and consuming…
  June 15, 2011
• Outsiders act as employees,…
  June 13, 2011
• When you pump your own gas at the filling station…
  June 8, 2011
• When information is plentiful…
  June 6, 2011
• The network is a structure…
  May 27, 2011
• Start with Technology, End with Trust
  May 23, 2011
• Preserve the core, and let the rest flux.
  May 5, 2011
• You can’t install complexity.
  April 18, 2011
• Exploit flux instead of outlawing it.
  March 31, 2011
• Skate to the edge of chaos.
  March 17, 2011
• Change in technological systems is becoming…
  March 9, 2011
• Change comes in various wavelengths.
  March 7, 2011
• To achieve sustainable innovation…
  March 4, 2011
• This is where life lives, between the rigid death…
  February 20, 2011
• The selective flux of innovation…
  February 2, 2011
• In a poetic sense, the prime goal…
  January 20, 2011
• Silicon Valley is not far behind.
  January 10, 2011
• Nowhere is this trend toward constant flux…
  January 7, 2011
• If the system settles into harmony and equilibrium…
  January 5, 2011
• When flux is inhibited…
  January 3, 2011
• But the network economy has moved…
  December 22, 2010
• Seeking Sustainable Disequilibrium
  December 15, 2010
• Prepare for flash crowds.
  December 10, 2010
• The only side a network has is outside.
  November 18, 2010
• The net shifts from mass media to mess media.
  November 10, 2010
• The network economy has set into motion…
  November 3, 2010
• Network logic supports the middle space…
  October 26, 2010
• It takes a village to make a mall.
  October 8, 2010
• We see the problem of the unserved middle…
  October 6, 2010
• The network economy encourages the middle space.
  September 29, 2010
• Left behind by industrialization…
  September 24, 2010
• But the big will have a different kind of bigness.
  September 22, 2010
• Technology has always influenced the size of…
  September 17, 2010
• All nodes in a network are intermediaries.
  September 8, 2010
• Everywhere networks go…
  September 2, 2010
• When Wired magazine began developing…
  August 31, 2010
• The banking industry was the first…
  August 27, 2010
• In the marketspace of networks, value flows in webs.
  August 24, 2010
• The network economy shifts places to spaces.
  August 19, 2010
• Spaces aren’t bound by proximity.
  August 13, 2010
• People will inhabit places…
  August 10, 2010
• Making a Different Kind of Big
  August 4, 2010
• Searching as a way of life.
  July 27, 2010
• Question success.
  July 21, 2010
• Who is in charge of devolution?
  July 15, 2010
• Send the network out.
  July 13, 2010
• Don’t mistake a clear view for a short distance.
  July 8, 2010
• The basic rules of success are eternal:
  July 6, 2010
• To maximize innovation, maximize the fringes.
  July 1, 2010
• Because skill guilds constrain…
  June 29, 2010
• The more successfully integrated…
  June 24, 2010
• Letting go at the top is not an act against…
  June 22, 2010
• There can be no expertise in innovation…
  June 15, 2010
• With or without someone in charge…
  June 9, 2010
• And the better the company…
  June 2, 2010
• The harsh news is that “getting stuck…
  May 27, 2010
• Big and small companies alike…
  May 18, 2010
• After Success, Devolution
  May 14, 2010
• Employ Evangelists.
  May 12, 2010
• Side with the net.
  May 5, 2010
• Animate it.
  April 30, 2010
• Apply an embedded standard in a new territory.
  April 28, 2010
• Don’t invest in Esperanto.
  April 22, 2010
• Seek the highest common denominator.
  April 15, 2010
• Maximize the value of the network.
  April 12, 2010
• MIT economist Paul Krugman has an alternative…
  April 5, 2010
• The progression by which the old economy…
  March 29, 2010
• Because information trumps mass, all commerce…
  March 17, 2010
• And what could be more industrial-age…
  March 12, 2010
• Bit by bit, the logic of the network…
  March 9, 2010
• The wholesale migration from mass to bits…
  March 4, 2010
• The net is moving irreversibly to include…
  February 23, 2010
• To prosper, feed the web first.
  February 18, 2010
• The network economy is a meta-country.
  February 9, 2010
• Eventually technical standards…
  February 3, 2010
• I was associated with the genesis of the Well,…
  January 22, 2010
• As more of the economy migrates to intangibles…
  January 20, 2010
• In the network economy, ever-less energy…
  January 6, 2010
• For maximum prosperity…
  December 30, 2009
• The final stage in the life cycle of networks…
  December 29, 2009
• Networks in the fluid phase…
  December 24, 2009
• The prestandard phase…
  December 22, 2009
• In the network economy a firm’s primary focus…
  December 18, 2009
• As the destiny of firm and web intertwine…
  December 15, 2009
• Individual allegiance moves away from firms…
  December 11, 2009
• Members Prosper as the Net Prospers
  December 9, 2009
• Pinpoint where value is being given out…
  December 4, 2009
• The ancillary market is the market.
  December 1, 2009
• Turn off the meter, charge for joining.
  November 23, 2009
• Anticipate the cheap.
  November 20, 2009
• Invest in the first copy.
  November 17, 2009
• Act as if your product or service is free.
  November 12, 2009
• What can you give away?
  November 9, 2009
• Releasing incomplete “buggy” products is not…
  November 7, 2009
• Tens of thousands of software programs…
  November 3, 2009
• Talk of generosity…
  October 21, 2009
• But the migration from ad hoc use…
  October 16, 2009
• Another way to view this effect…
  October 14, 2009
• The natural question is how companies…
  October 9, 2009
• If goods and services become more valuable…
  October 7, 2009
• The task, then, is to create new things…
  October 2, 2009
• The accelerating expansion of knowledge…
  September 24, 2009
• Technology creates an opportunity for a demand…
  September 22, 2009
• Indeed, all items that can be copied…
  September 18, 2009
• Because prices move inexorably toward the free…
  
• Feedback loops saturate networks.
  September 16, 2009
• Why the Net Rewards Generosity
  September 11, 2009
• Don’t seek refuge in scarcity.
  September 8, 2009
• Avoid proprietary systems.
  September 3, 2009
• Don’t pamper commodities…
  August 31, 2009
• Maximize the opportunities of others.
  August 27, 2009
• Touch as many nets as you can.
  August 25, 2009
• Plentitude will soon reach the level of zillionics.
  August 21, 2009
• A network is a possibility factory.
  August 19, 2009
• The law of plentitude is most accurately rendered…
  August 13, 2009
• The more interconnected a technology is…
  August 11, 2009
• The power of the fax effect–
  August 6, 2009
• The abundance upon which the network economy…
  August 4, 2009
• The value of an invention, company, or technology…
  July 30, 2009
• Every time a closed system opens…
  July 28, 2009
• Proprietary, or “closed,” systems were once rare…
  July 21, 2009
• In the network economy, the more plentiful…
  July 16, 2009
• Value Flows from Abundance
  July 14, 2009
• It’s a hits game for everyone.
  July 8, 2009
• Protect long incubations.
  July 3, 2009
• Create feedback loops.
  June 30, 2009
• Coordinate smaller webs.
  June 26, 2009
• Check for externalities.
  June 24, 2009
• In the past, an innovation’s momentum…
  June 19, 2009
• Lower tipping points also mean that the threshold…
  June 16, 2009
• One more biological insight can be gleaned…
  June 11, 2009
• Technology has become our culture,…
  June 9, 2009
• Everyday we see evidence of biological growth…
  June 5, 2009
• A good definition of a network…
  June 3, 2009
• During its first 10 years…
  June 2, 2009
• What can be predicted…
  May 28, 2009
• The social web, even in the Valley…
  May 26, 2009
• Mono-sellers are actually desirable…
  May 21, 2009
• One reason increasing returns and network externalities are garnering attention…
  May 19, 2009
• In the industrial economy success was self-limiting;
  May 15, 2009
• An old saying puts it succinctly: Them that’s got shall get.
  May 13, 2009
• A network’s tendency to explode in value mathematically
  May 6, 2009
• Self-Reinforcing Success
  April 17, 2009
• Count on more being different.
  April 9, 2009
• If you are not in real time, you’re dead.
  April 3, 2009
• Distribute knowledge.
  April 1, 2009
• If it is not connected, connect it.
  March 26, 2009
• If it is not animated, animate it.
  March 19, 2009
• Move technology to invisibility.
  March 9, 2009
• The great benefits reaped by the new economy…
  March 4, 2009
• At present, there is far more to be gained…
  February 27, 2009
• Without some element of governance from the top…
  February 24, 2009
• Complete surrender to the bottom is not what embracing swarm is about.
  February 20, 2009
• Similar thinking has been used…
  February 17, 2009
• The surest way to smartness…
  February 12, 2009
• Dumb parts, properly connected into a swarm, yield smart results.
  February 9, 2009
• When we permit any object to transmit a small amount of data…
  February 3, 2009
• We are connecting everything to everything.
  January 30, 2009
• Today the world is populated by 200 million computers.
  January 28, 2009
• The dynamic of our society,…
  January 23, 2009
• The net is our future.
  January 21, 2009
• The Power of Decentralization
  January 16, 2009
• As the world of chips and glass fibers and wireless waves goes,
  January 14, 2009
• Our economy is an amalgamation of diverse styles of trade,…
  January 8, 2009
• As tremendous as the influence of financial inventions have been,…
  January 6, 2009
• Because communication–which in the end…
  December 30, 2008
• How ironic that ever since the future has arrived,…
  December 26, 2008
• The tricks of the intangible trade…
  December 23, 2008
• This new economy has three distinguishing characteristics:…
  December 18, 2008
• No one can escape the transforming fire…
  December 15, 2008
 


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