By Brad Burnham—Nov 3, 2005

Here are some more of the insights that we gained from our Sessions discussion… Michael Parekh makes the point that all peers are not created equal… “Another thing, the term peer to peer, one of the things that’s implicit, unfortunately, is that everyone is participating in an equal way, and the […] Read more

By Brad Burnham—Nov 2, 2005

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?” A scarcity of attention basically, right? So I went to […] Read more

By Brad Burnham—Oct 28, 2005

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 companies, they’re actually pretty generous in […] Read more

By Brad Burnham—Oct 27, 2005

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 so. Our first observation is that we may need a finer grained definition of “peer […] Read more

By Brad Burnham—Oct 24, 2005

One of the first posts that came out of Sessions was Joel Spolsky’s comment on architecture astronauts. Joel said. I’m starting to see a new round of pure architecture astronautics: meaningless stringing-together of new economy buzzwords in an attempt to sound erudite. That’s one sure tip-off to […] Read more

By Brad Burnham—Oct 13, 2005

We are true believers in the potential of the web. Over the last year, we have seen a number of lightweight web services that could be the foundation for large and valuable businesses. Many of these services appear to be fundamentally changing the structure of their markets. This creates a […] Read more