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Cambrian House And "Crowdsourced" Software

July 14, 2006By Rafe Needleman

Cambrian House is an odd incubator that's out to change the traditional startup funding structure, with a model that outsources idea generation and software coding to users of the Internet, and gives those users a stake in the projects' profits, too.

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Big Apps Are Coming Back

June 27, 2006By Rafe Needleman

I am a fan of the small online app. Simplicity is good, as I wrote about six weeks ago. Little programs like the SMS reminder app, OhDontForget, are not just amusing, they're actually useful. A lot of Web 2.0 startups that get attention these days are not much more than this -- "point applications," as they're called, that do just one thing, although usually quite well.

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Where's Esther?

June 15, 2006By Esther Dyson

I'm sitting at Where 2.0, the O'Reilly conference, hearing about all the great things that are finally happening around maps and all things geo... The old news is layers and data standards, geo-tagging and user-generated content. So the *new* news, I'd venture, is thinking about how we live within maps: What are the links between the virtual representations of the real world such as Google Earth, and the virtual worlds we build and then represent, such as Second Life.

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    June Publication

  • monthly report Visible Demand: The New Air-Taxi Market

  • by Esther Dyson

    The airline industry is one of the most effective users of IT - even though you see no evidence of that fact in the form of profits. Perhaps it just proves that using IT well to implement a broken model gives you, well, a broken model.

    When 2.0

    Audio excerpts from our recent event

  • Schedules and calendars

    • Things improve over time - even calendar and scheduling tools. A new generation of such tools is emerging; what's different this time?

  • Time and sequence

    • How can we deal with parallel time as people act simultaneously but independently?

  • Events as (social) objects

    • How do users plan their public activities? How can events be traded, shared and enriched, within the context of a community?

  • Time and functionality

    • How can applications use time under the covers to improve their functionality?

  • Time and detection

    • How can time patterns help us detect and predict both opportunities and threats, ranging from potential sales of expensive merchandise on the one hand, to computer security and health threats on the other?

  • Time and simulation

    • Will Wright talks about time in SimCity

    Also in Release 1.0

  • False Economies
  • by Rafe Needleman

    I could say a lot of nice things about money. I like having it and wish I had more of it.

  • Where's Esther?
  • by Esther Dyson

    I've been spending the past few weeks gearing up for Flight School: Air. Why all the excitement about air taxis? Isn't it just a clever new positioning of the same old air charters for the rich and the upwardly mobile? Add some vendor-generated excitement about some new jets, and you still just have.

  • The Community Site Gold Rush is Misguided
  • by Rafe Needleman

    In the past few months, I have talked with the founders of far too many community sites. To each of them I ask the obvious question, "How you will compete with MySpace?" All have an answer.

Our Events

recent events

June 15-16, 2006
St. Petersburg, FL

Flight School 06 Flight School 06

Thanks to everyone who made Flight School such a successful event. Flight School is a business-networking conference for the on-demand aviation industry.

Audio Highlights

Esther's introduction and Bruce Holmes' speech

 

Andy Steinberg's speech and panel on redesigning the infrastructure

PC Forum 2006

March 12-14, 2006
Carlsbad, CA

Thanks to everyone who came together to make PC Forum 2006 such a great success. We hope to keep the overall conversation going on our website, and encourage attendees to continue to make one-on-one connections on the attendee-only website.

Audiocasts and webcasts of selected sessions are now available.

Video Highlights

Barry Schwartz, the author of The Paradox of Choice, talks about why greater freedom and more choices often make us feel worse.

Barry Schwartz, the author of "The Paradox of Choice," talks about why greater freedom and more choices often make us feel worse.

 

eBay founder Pierre Omidyar talks to Esther Dyson about the three laws that create socially responsible businesses: access, connection and ownership.

eBay founder Pierre Omidyar talks to Esther Dyson about the three "laws" that create socially responsible businesses: access, connection and ownership.

When 2.0

December 6, 2005
Stanford, CA

Audio files from last year's event are available for download.

Personal Health Information workshop

September 30, 2005
New York, NY

Thanks to all who came together to make the PHI workshop such a great success.