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SmartPlanet: CISCO in Lake Nona, Flordia – Brilliant Today, Flooded Tomorrow

A Florida aerotropolis bets on intelligent infrastructure By Andrew Nusca | October 23, 2012 Ever heard of Lake Nona? If you’re unfamiliar, it’s a 7,000-acre, 25,000-person planned community in Orlando, Florida with urban ambitions the size of Tokyo. In just 15 years, the community wants to become ”a global model and standard for sustainable urban development” …

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Michel Bauwens: The Third Wave: Peer-to-Peer Immaterial Expansion

Peer to peer and the feudal transition Executive Summary: First Wave: Extensive Development (Expansion across Space using Slaves) Second Wave: Intensive Development (Material Development Upgrading Slaves to Serfs) Third Wave:  P2P Development (Immaterial Developments Upgrading Serfs to Seers) 10 September 2012 In this thought capsule, inspired by the reading of the very stimulating book Deep …

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Yoda: Recording the Future – Repeat Itself, Foolishness Does…

Repeat itself, foolishness does. Predicting the future through online data mining Recorded Future predicts when and where a demonstration will occur after mining from the web all the related activities. EXTRACT As it turns out, the software company Recorded Future (which has recently been praised by Wired, the MIT Technology Review and other media outlets, …

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Richard Stallman: Free Software Issue 54 September 2012

Free Software Supporter Issue 54, September 2012 Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software Foundation’s monthly news digest and action update — being read by you and 61,769 other activists. That’s 1,189 more than last month! Encourage your friends to subscribe and help us build an audience by adding our subscriber widget to …

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Stephen E. Arnold: Online Pricing – Every Angle Except One – Affordable Effective Search

Online Pricing: Well, Who Knows? I read “Doubling SaaS Revenue by Changing the Pricing Model.” If you are involved in charging for online pricing, you will want to work through this write up by the founder of Kalzumeus Software. What makes the article valuable is its real world data. The article describes a “highly configurable …

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Jon Lebkowsky: Doc Searls Book & Discussion – The Intention Economy

I’m leading a discussion on the WELL with Doc Searls about his new book, The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge, which explores new thinking about the power relationship between customers/consumers and vendors. Doc has been rethinking those relationships through Project VRM (via his fellowship at the Berkman Center at Harvard), which has recently led …

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