Posts Tagged ‘economics’

The True Value Calculation

The True Value Calculation is the expanded ROI of a business venture which includes the positive and negative impacts on a much wider body of stakeholders in the sum total of viability.

Intellectual Property And The Cloud

Wall Street is quite happy collecting the royalties of the creative people in America – those people who actually produce something real and tangible. Social media is a social contract and Intellectual Property is our tangible currency.

Where is the Social Train Going?

The ROI from social media is called listening and learning to predict based on the conversations of the market

The Last Mile: Social Media Battleground

Nothing “Economic” can happen is Social Media until real people get together to build things. Sure, Marketers are trying their hardest to penetrate the last mile, but communities are trying to defend it too.

Google CEO Warns of Information Armageddon

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Google CEO Eric Schmidt warns of the future consequences of social media and networks, and the vast amount of personal data that users put out there on the Web.

“Social” Communities Are Mimicking Old Media Models

The old media models of propaganda, power and politics are changing slow but sure. The changes aren’t likely to be found in new media communities which are following old media models.

State of the Web Economy 2010

Chris Anderson at Wired Magazine led another lively discussion about the future of the web. On TV, Meg Whitman says she created 15,000 jobs at eBay, enabled lots of entrepreneurs, and now wants to become the Governor of California. Thousands of blogs w…

“Social” Solutions Are The Problem

Enamored at first by the utility the crowds adopt the technology then soon they find themselves stuck in the “usage trap” which steals time and productivity.

Social Currency Lives in Time

Talk about how your product lives in time and you’ll earn all the social currency that it’s worth – not the other way around.

Pareto Efficiency

A central concept in economics is Pareto efficiency. A situation is said to be Pareto efficient if there is no way to rearrange things to make at least one person better off without making anyone worse off.