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Umair Haque said something (or actually quoted someone) at our Sessions event that has been rattling around my brain for the past week.Umair said: Herbert Simon said it in 1971, which is that "What does an abundance of information create?" [...]  Read more

Social production systems seem to deliver a much higher portion of the economic value created to the consumers than traditional production systems do. As Tim O’Reilly says,"if you look at … Ebay or Google, even though they're very, very successful [...]  Read more

As we get a chance to go back through the transcript of Sessions, we are finding a number of themes that are worth highlighting. We will try to get these thoughts up on the site over the next week or [...]  Read more

One of the companies that we are invested in is working on reshaping a large and important industry with a new technology platform.The team that is building this company is first rate and has already built several very valuable companies [...]  Read more

This is a really great story about the power and perils of peer production.This morning Brad told me that there was a reformatted version of the transcript of the Union Square Sessions event on our wiki.I assumed that Charlie did [...]  Read more