A historical collection of our writing.
Charlie O'DonnellWe are very happy about the success of our new website. It has become a vibrant hub for thoughtful exchange and we hope we can facilitate even more dialogue that our audience finds interesting. This would not be possible if it wasn’t for the technical and design team behind our blog, namely Tim […] Read more
Brad BurnhamOur sessions event happened almost a month ago and it is starting to fade into my memory. But there is at least one phrase that came out of Sessions that we are still using with regularlity at Union Square Ventures. And it came out of this really interesting exchange between Brad and Tim O’Reilly on […] Read more
Brad BurnhamThere was a lot of discussion about the relationship between web service providers and consumers. This relationship is obviously especially important in services where the consumers are also the producers of the service. One thread of this discussion was about control. I hate to lead with Jeff […] Read more
Brad BurnhamThere was a lot of talk at Sessions about trust. The word appears 33 times in the transcript. Jeff Jarvis mentioned it 11 times himself. Here, Jeff makes the point that value is shifting from content to trust. “And so the content isn’t what’s valuable. It’s the trust and relationship that’s […] Read more
Brad BurnhamOne of the insights from our Sessions event was from Yochai Benkler who said the following about peer production: we do have very good research on how adding money undermines social motivations depending on contents I am not sure how to intepret that last part – “depending on contents” – but […] Read more
Brad BurnhamHere 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
