Difference between online and offline communites – is there one?l
People (i.e., my non-geeky friends) often ask me why I am so fascinated by social media. I almost always answer “it’s the sense community that it offers”. I know… I know – that’s a lame answer but it’s what everyone says, right?
I needed to come up with a better and more meaningful version of [...]
The future of real time and open collaboration: Google Wave
First of all What is Google Wave?
A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets [...]
In my universe, the internet is an economy on to itself and social media is the means by which any business can take part. The internet creates equality between all its participants. No matter how large or small your business is, you can compete side-by-side with your particular industry’s top guns.



