Generativity is one of the core concepts I keep coming back to. I think it’s at least as important as “sustainability” and we shouldn’t think about one without thinking about the other. Recently I noticed Tim O’Reilly mention it with new (to me) associations in a TechCrunch post about Gov 2.0: The government may build [...]
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There’s some good insight to be gleaned from this throwaway quote by Marc Andreessen (at Wired: Epicenter): “Twitter was timed right: Two years earlier, or later, and it would have been a failure,” he says. “This is what our problem was 15 years ago (with Netscape).” It’s a good following to the last post, about [...]
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Survival of the Fittest Ideas
by OpenConceptual on 07-07-2009
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There’s some good insight to be gleaned from this throwaway quote by Marc Andreessen (at Wired: Epicenter): “Twitter was timed right: Two years earlier, or later, and it would have been a failure,” he says. “This is what our problem was 15 years ago (with Netscape).” It’s a good following to the last post, about [...]
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