A Future Views™ Focused Research Project to provide knowledge agents in support of the AdFlight Zoomtrax™ Event, February 15, 2001

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Suggestions of where to go for more knowledge agents ...
FastCompany.com - Good source of "new economy" stuff
RedHerring.com - Good source of "new economy" stuff

Wired News - Good source of "new economy" stuff

Wired Magazine - Good source of "new economy" stuff
Business 2.0 - Good source of "new economy" stuff
CyberAtlas - The Web marketer's guide to online facts.
Iterations Virtual Knowledge Wall® Displays - Check the current K-Wall page, as well as the pages from last year for a wide variety of interesting material.
Articles

$10 paper mobile phone to launch this year, by Linda Harrison, The Register, January 19, 2001

Category: Opportunities

A US inventor plans to have a $10 paper mobile phone on the market later this year. The disposable device is the brainchild of Randice-Lisa Altschul, who has 22 patents on the technology. Called the Phone-Card-Phone, it is the thickness of three credit cards and made from recycled paper products. It comes with 60 minutes of calling time and a hands-free attachment.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/16232.html

Africa Rising, by John Perry Barlow, WIRED, January 1998

Category: Opportunities

Everything you know about Africa is wrong.

Most Africans stayed out of the loop of the 20th century and were not homogenized into the generica that is now much of the Northern Hemisphere, or what they call the North. And thus their continent - so intensely different from the rest of the world, so vastly different within itself - represents a huge and still unconnected battery of stored potential. All it would take for Africa to leapfrog into the wonderland of an information economy would be to attach the electrodes - get it wired, in other words - and then watch its huge voltage zap the gap. Or so went my theory.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.01/barlow.html

Aimster Aims for More Than Swapping Files, by Michael Hill, San Jose Mercury News, January 1, 2001

Category: Napster/P2P

It might sound like Napster redux. Even the name plays on its famous forebear: Aimster. But Aimster is no Napster.

http://www0.mercurycenter.com

Amid Net Wreckage, Two Firms Show How to Climb, by Steven Syre And Charles Stein, The Boston Globe c.2001

Category: Internet

Pleasant surprises come few and far between in the investment carnage of the electronic commerce world. But there they were, surrounded by companies of all kinds busy confirming disappointment from the immediate past and talking down expectations for the foreseeable future.

http://199.97.97.16/contWriter/cnd7/2001/01/31/cndin/1661-0321-pat_nytimes.html

Are movies about to meet their Napster?, by Justin Hibbard, Red Herring, January 16, 2001

Category: Napster/P2P

They called it Project Mayo. The hush-hush operation started last spring when four entrepreneurs set out to develop a commercial version of DivX;-). It's software used for passing illegal copies of movies around the Internet. Fans call it the MP3 of video. Hollywood studios consider it a tool for piracy. But if Project Mayo's founders are right, those same studios will soon be knocking at their door with checks in hand.

http://www.redherring.com/vc/2001/0122/vc-mag-90-divx012201.html

The Army Is Watching Your Kid, by Jeffrey Benner, WIRED News, Jan. 29, 2001

Category: Privacy

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has asked the Department of Defense to explain why it is monitoring the Web surfing habits of children using the Internet at school.

http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,41476,00.html

Betting on Bandwidth, by David Sheff, WIRED, February 2001

Category: Opportunities

Edward Tian has a pide dream for China. It's called democracy.

http://www.wired.com/wired

Big business and government stretch the boundaries of privacy yet again, by Dan Gillmor, San Joses Mercury News, February 7, 2001

Category: Privacy

In the name of convenience and safety, big business and big government keep pushing the boundaries of privacy and surveillance. Consider the latest from online retailer Amazon.com Inc. and the Super Bowl. Trusting businesses to protect privacy is always a risk, because personal data is a valuable commodity. That's why I'm hesitant to take at face value a new Amazon service that looks quite useful -- and which, at least for now, is sensitive to privacy concerns, more so than many other e-commerce sites I can name.

http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/columns/gillmor/docs/dg020701.htm

The Big Picture, The Economist, January 4, 2001

Category: Opportunities

The rivers of electronic information gushing around the worldÕs companies ought to reveal a lot about how people communicate within these organisations. But until now the very volume of data involved has defeated attempts to analyse it. A group of Finnish academic physicists has, however, developed some nifty software to help with the task. And, judging by the startled reactions of some of the managers who have seen the results, it could be of much more than purely academic interest.

http://www.economist.com/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=463720

Boom Box, by Michael Lewis, New York Times Magazine, August 13, 2000

Category: Media

The new technology from Tivo and replay provides the ultimate in television convenience. It will also spy on you, destroy prime time and shatter the power of the mass market.

http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000813mag-boombox.html

CEO wants to drive start-up to big time, by David Barboza, San Jose Mercury News, February 12, 2001

Lloyd D. Ward, the former chief executive of Maytag Corp., is sitting in a cramped office in San Francisco, talking about how he is going to make a household name out of a company most people have never heard of. After 15 stormy months at the top of Maytag, Ward resigned last November and then stunned corporate America by accepting a job as chairman and chief executive of an Internet start-up called iMotors, an online seller of used cars.

http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/business/docs/imotors12.htm (this will be a short lived link)

Circles of Trust, by Wendy Grossman, Scientific American, August 2000, pg. 34.

Category: Privacy

How Vouching for Users Beats Encryption Alone in Maintaining Privacy

http://www.sciam.com/2000/0800issue/0800cyber.html

The Cluetrain Manifesto

Category: Marketing/Opportunities

People of the Earth ... A powerful global conversation has begun. Through the Internet, people are discovering and inventing new ways to share relevant knowledge with blinding speed. As a direct result, markets are getting smarter - and getting smarter faster than most companies.

http://www.cluetrain.com/

The coming backlash in privacy, The Economist, December 7, 2000

Category: Privacy

New privacy services will soon allow consumers to buy goods anonymously onlineÑforcing web-based retailers to change the way they do business

http://www.economist.com/science/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=442790

Computing Goes Everywhere, by Robert Buderi, Technology Review, January/February 2001

The dream of "ubiquitous computing" has been around for a while. Now it's serious enough that a company like IBM is willing to throw $500 million at it.

http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/jan01/buderi.asp

Convergence of Media, Entertainment, Computing, and Communications, by James Herman, InTouch

Category: Media

Convergence is one of those widely used buzzwords that has taken on many different meanings over the years. In working with companies across a broad spectrum of industries, we see three primary dimensions to the concept of convergence: the proliferation of digital technology infrastructure, an expansion in the forms and uses of content, and growing overlap among previously separate markets, industries, and competitors.

http://intouch.3com.com/infocus/convergence/northeast.html

Convergence, media and marketing: an eye for an I, by Paul Woolmington, Young & Rubicam, International Advertising Association

Category: Media

IF YOU LET CONVERGENCE into the front of your mind, its presence is suddenly everywhere. In the magazines you read. The television programs you watch. The people you talk to. Everyone seems to be talking about it. As it overtakes the senses, the message crystallizes: convergence really will change the way we live our life.

http://www.atalink.co.uk/iaa2000/html/p020.htm

Court Orders Modified Napster Injunction, By REUTERS, New York Times, February 12, 2000

Category: Napster/P2P

In what the recording industry called a major victory, a U.S appeals court on Monday said that users of Napster were infringing on copyrights and that an injunction against the song-swapping service was "not only warranted but required."

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/business/tech-napster.html

Death of Banner Ads Exaggerated, by Julia Scheeres, WIRED News, January 26, 2001

Subject: Marketing

Sick of those pesky little banner ads? Just wait and see what's around the corner. Despite setbacks, the online advertising industry is poised to grow and get even more irritating, er, effective, than ever, Internet pundits say.

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,41404,00.html

Digital Divide, So close and yet so far, by Chris Taylor, Time Magazine, December 4, 2000

Category: Opportunities

It's in everyone's interest to pull the stragglers aboard the high-tech express, but only education will keep them there.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,90496,00.html

Digital ink meets electronic paper, The Economist, December 7, 2000

Category: Opportunities

Printed with digital ink, electronic paper promises an era of reprogrammable newspapers, books, billboards, garments and even wallpaper.

http://www.economist.com/science/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=442911

Don't People Want to Control Their TV's? - Roy Furchgott, New York Times, August 4, 2000

Category: Media

TiVo and ReplayTV may change viewing habits, but consumers aren't clamoring for them yet.

http://channel.nytimes.com/2000/08/24/technology/24tivo.html (Registration on New York Times Website required.)

Dots Dashed, Unit of One, Lucy McCauley and Christine Canabou, Fast Company, February 2001, page 85

Category: Internet

Dotcoms come and dotcoms go, but the lessons we learn from them last a lifetime. The new economy has turned a corner; that's old news. It's far more interesting and useful to spot the new economy's new location. Where you think we are now depends a lot on what you think you learned from the last round. Here's a report from the GPSs of 16 explorers -- gurus, VCs, leaders, and bleeders -- of the Internet's opening act.

http://www.fastcompany.com/online/43/one.html

E-music: Piracy fight turns into long, bumpy road, by John Borland, ZDNet, January 24, 2001

Category: Napster/P2P

Two years have passed since the group of computer, consumer electronics and record companies agreed to work together toward broad anti-piracy technology standards. A first round of standards released a year ago has seen almost no adoption by participating companies, and a second, more ambitious song protection plan has been long delayed.

http://www.zdnet.com/filters/printerfriendly/0,6061,2678069-2,00.html

Ebola. Smallpox. Christina Aguilera, by IanÊMount, e-Company Now, October 2000

Category: Marketing

What do the above have in common? They all spread virally.

http://www.ecompany.com/articles/mag/print/1,1643,7511,00.html

Exploring the Science of Change, by Alex Carter, News from Harvard Medical, Dental and Public Health Schools, May 5, 2000

Category: Marketing

An article on Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

http://www.med.harvard.edu/publications/Focus/2000/May5_2000/forum.html

Follow Your E-Mail Everywhere, by Julia Scheeres, WIRED News, February 8, 2001

Category: Privacy

Imagine being able to trace where your e-mail goes, and where it's forwarded. Say you had a way to verify that the CEO of the Fortune 500 company you've been hounding for a job indeed got the resume you e-mailed him. Or that you could tell if your girlfriend lied when she denied getting your message that begged her not to go to that conference in Jamaica with her assistant who turned out to be rather hunky?

http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,41686,00.html

Free Riding on Gnutella, by Eytan Adar and Bernardo A. Huberman, First Monday, October 2000

Category: Napster/P2P

http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_10/adar/index.html

The Freenet Project - "Re-Wiring the Internet"

Category: Napster/P2P

http://freenet.sourceforge.net/

Friends Don't E-Mail Friends HTML, by Julia Scheeres, WIRED News, February 6, 2001

Category: Privacy

Carl Voth describes himself as a regular guy -- a 37-year-old family man who lives in scenic British Columbia with his wife and three young daughters. But he's also the dude who discovered a fatal flaw in Microsoft and Netscape programs that allows forwarded e-mails to be traced and read.

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,41639,00.html

The FUTURE

Category: Opportunities

The Phone-Card-Phone is just the beginning. By expanding on our Super Thin Technology we have developed a variety of groundbreaking products for the delight and convenience of consumers of all ages.

http://www.dtcproducts.com/future.html

The Future is Now, WIRED, October 2000

Category: Napster/P2P

Ever since computers started communicating across the ether, geek pundits, nerd poets, and online philosophers have talked about The Future The Net Will Bring, foreseeing that the lightning-speed distributive power of the medium will wreak creative havoc on the world. A few of these predictions have already come true, a few haven't. For the most part we've been waiting, impatient and hopeful.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.10/p2p_intro.html

Gnutella

Category: Napster/P2P

http://www.gnutella.wego.com/

Here Comes Paper 2.0, by Ron Dagani, C&E News, January 15, 2001

Category: Opportunities

Corporate researchers are developing flexible, paperlike electronic displays that one day may change the way we read books and periodicals.

http://cen.acs.org/isubscribe/journals/cen/79/i03/html/7903sci1.html (subscription required)

How We Went Digital Without a Strategy, by Ricardo Semler, Harvard Business Review, September-October 2000

Category: General

(Click here for the pdf document)

In praise of disruption, The Economist, December 7, 2000

Category: General

Technologies such as Bluetooth broadcasting, optical switching, codeÐmorphing and proteomics are threatening the old industrial order. Rejoice.

http://www.economist.com/science/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=442777

Industry focuses on privacy, by Heather Fleming Phillips, San Jose Mercury News, February 7, 2001

Category: Privacy

Learning a lesson from a series of high-profile privacy debacles on the Internet, wireless phone companies are taking steps to win customers' confidence that their personal information will remain private, even as the industry develops new technology for tracking a mobile phone user's every movement.

http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/business/docs/wireless07.htm (this will be a short lived link)

Internet Computing and the Emerging Grid, by Ian Foster, Nature Web Matters

Category: Opportunities

A good resource on the distributed computation paradigm of Popular Power.

"Internet computing and Grid technologies promise to change the way we tackle complex problems. They will enable large-scale aggregation and sharing of computational, data and other resources across institutional boundaries. And harnessing these new technologies effectively will transform scientific disciplines ranging from high-energy physics to the life sciences."

http://www.nature.com/nature/webmatters/grid/grid.html

Internet Everywhere, by John Adam, Technology Review, September/October 2000

Category: Opportunities

"Handheld devices are taking computers from personal to intimate. A new generation of wireless network is coming that could keep everyone connected all the time."

http://www.techreview.com/magazine/sep00/adam.asp

Issues Aside, How Napster Works and What It Really Matters, by Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News, August 5, 2000.

Category: Napster/P2P

"To understand why Napster and its clones may be the most significant development in software since the graphical Web browser, you have to forget about music, copyright and piracy."

"Napster is a giant step toward turning the Web into what it was always supposed to be -- a multi-directional medium that gives consumers of information an easy, powerful way to be producers too."

http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/columns/gillmor/docs/dg080600.htm

Latin America: The Mobile World, by Julia Scheeres, WIRED News, Jan. 25, 2001

Category: Opportunities

While cell phones are basically prestigious toys in the United States, they're a necessity in many parts of Latin America.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,41309,00.html

A Love Song for Napster, by Jaron Lanier, Discover, February 2001

Category: Napster/P2P

Imagine what could happen to democracy if the courts kill off this popular software.

http://www.discover.com/feb_01/gthere.html?article=featnapster.html

Marc Andreessen: Act II, by George Anders, Fast Company, February 2001

Category: Internet

What's still true -- and what was never true -- about the Internet.

http://www.fastcompany.com/online/43/andreessen.html

The Media Lab at a Crossroads, by David H. Freedman, Technology Review, September-October 2000

Category: Opportunities

"Fierce competition, radical expansion, a dubious funding model and maybe even a new director spell the end of an era. Can a trailblazing enterprise survive and thrive?"

Straight out of the Stages of an Enterprise Model, MIT's Media Lab pushes the Entrepreneurial Button.

http://www.techreview.com/magazine/sep00/freedman.asp

More on the $10 paper mobile phone, by Linda Harrison, The Register, January 24, 2001

Last week we reported that $10 mobile phones made of paper were scheduled to launch themselves onto the US market in the third quarter of 2001.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/16348.html

Music's Model Not Made for TV, by Brad King, WIRED News, Jan. 25, 2001

Category: Napster/P2P

Buckle up movie mavens, consumers are itching to take you for a ride. Discussions at this week's annual meeting of the National Association of Television Programming Executives focused not so much on digital rights management and security, but on developing tracking applications that would identify pirates after their works were stolen.

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,41385,00.html

Music Sites Laud Napster's Nadir, by Brad King, WIRED News, Jan. 30, 2001

Category: Napster/P2P

A new fee-based Napster is music to the ears of struggling entertainment sites.

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,41491,00.html

Napster Faces Shutdown, by Brad King, WIRED News, February 12, 2001

Napster faces extinction for the second time in six months.

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,41752,00.html

Napster's Offspring, by Brad Stone, Newsweek, October 16, 2000

Peer-to-peer upstarts try to fulfill a pioneer's promise.

The Napsterization of B2B, by Andrew McAfee, Harvard Business Review, November-December 2000

When companies can complete complex transactions among themselves through peer-to-peer networks, the need for centralized exchanges decreases dramatically.

New Snail-Mail Service 'Ads' Up, by Farhad Manjoo, WIRED News, February 8, 2001

Ah, the love letter -- still a beautiful institution. Even now, in this era of instant communication, nothing says "I Love You" like a romantic missive that comes in the mail, as powerful as a kiss. But with the U.S. Postal Service hiking its first-class mail rate faster than you can cash in your stock options -- the new 34-cent rate will likely be upped again next year -- and with Valentine's day around the corner, you might find your love letters straining your budget a little. But despair not, says Wilson Zehr, the co-founder and CEO of a company called Zairmail; using his website, you can send hundreds of snail-mail letters without any hassles -- no envelopes, etc. -- and all for free, he says. The catch? You agree to let the company insert some advertisements in the envelope.

http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,41647,00.html

News Flash, by Paul Kunkel, WIRED, August 2000

Category: Media

Scrap the presses - print and the Web are racing toward the biggest media merger in history.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.08/epapers.html

The Next Economy Of Ideas, by John Perry Barlow, WIRED, October 2000

Category: Napster/P2P

Will copyright survive the Napster bomb? Nope, but creativity will.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.10/download.html

Online privacy matters, by Luc Hatlestad, Redherring.com, January 18, 2001

Category: Privacy

http://www.redherring.com/industries/2001/0118/ind-mag-90-privacy011801.html

The O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer Conference, Westin St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, CA February 14-16, 2001

Category: Napster/P2P

The cluster of technologies we're now calling peer-to-peer is a melting pot of ideas that's about to boil over. The O'Reilly P2P Conference, the first and most important conference on P2P, will provide a unique opportunity for developers, entrepreneurs, investors, and those making technology-buying decisions to find out what's really going on.

http://conferences.oreilly.com/p2p/

Open Letter: We need an online privacy bill of rights, Red Herring Magazine, January 16, 2001

Red Herring editors appeal to president-elect Bush to create an electronic version of our bill of rights, for everybody's sake.

http://www.redherring.com/mag/issue90/mag-90-president.html

Internet going to 'next level', by Joshua L. Kwan, San Jose Mercury News, February 12, 2001

Napster could be just the beginning. The technology that undergirds the music file-swapping phenomenon is the first generation of what's being heralded as a revolution on the Internet: peer-to-peer, or P-to-P, networking. And it has much more than Britney Spears in its sights.

http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/business/docs/peer12.htm (this will be a short lived link)

P2P Pages, Wired's Guide to Global File-Sharing, WIRED, October 2000

Category: Napster/P2P

This list of 240-plus downloads, services, and information resources - most of them free - is designed for experienced P2Pers and novices alike.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.10/p2p_pages.html

Phone friend, by Duncan Graham-Rowe, New Scientist, January 31, 2001

Category: Opportunities

Software agents can use your pattern of mobile phone use to foil thieves. The way you use your mobile phone could help to foil potential thieves. So say software engineers who have developed a fraud detection system that uses artificial intelligence to monitor your phone usage, making sure you're the rightful owner.

http://www.newscientist.com/news/newsletter.jsp?id=ns9999370

Pink Slip in Your Genes, by Diane Martindale, Scientific American, January 2001

Category: Privacy

"Evidence builds that employers hire and fire based on genetic tests; meanwhile protective legislation languishes."

http://www.sciam.com/2001/0101issue/0101scicit2.html

Populist Power Tools, by Seth Shulman, Technology Review, January/February 2001

Category: Napster/P2P

The take-home message from Napster: Songs won't remain shrink-wrapped. We'd better get used to it!

Positive Deviant, by David Dorsey, Fast Company, December 2000

Category: General

Jerry Sternin's job was to help save starving children in Vietnam. Faced with an impossible time frame, he adopted a radical approach to making change. His idea: Real change begins from the inside.

http://www.fastcompany.com/online/41/sternin.html

The Power of Memes, by Susan Blackmore, Scientific American, October, 2000, pg. 64

Category: Marketing

"Behaviors and ideas copied from person to person by imitation - memes - may have forced human genes to make us what we are today."

Publishing Without a Net, by Robin Clewley, WIRED News, Sep. 16, 2000

Category: Media

Interested in reading the latest article online from Talk magazine? How about Vanity Fair? What about that one article that came out a few months back in The New Yorker? Don't even think about looking for these articles using the Web. They don't exist. You'll have to head to your local library and thumb through the old card catalogue.

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,38643,00.html

Putting Napster's Technology to Other Uses, by Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News, August 8, 2000

Category: Napster/P2P

http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/columns/gillmor/docs/dg080900.htm

Radio Active, by Alex Markels, WIRED, June 2000

Category: Media

Up against the megastations in a battle for the airwaves, do-it-yourself DJs are deploying two potent weapons - 100-watt transmitters and the global reach of the Web.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.06/radio.html

Radio Star Rising, Charles Graeber, WIRED, February 2001

Category: Media

The Revolution Will Not Be Napsterized, by Rafe Needleman, Redherring.com, January 26, 2001

Category: Napster/P2P

http://www.redherring.com/cod/2001/0129.html

The Revolution Won't be Televised. It'll be synchronized!, by David Coursey,ÊZDNet, January 30, 2001

Category: Napster/P2P

There's a saying that "the revolution will be televised." Maybe it has been already, but my revolution -- and it's happening right now -- will be synchronized. Synchronization is one of the big hurdles that we must overcome before our information can follow us wherever we go.

http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2679949,00.html

Robot Nails Online Gossips, by Duncan Graham-Rowe

Category: Opportunities

Rumor mongers beware: software robots are patrolling the Internet with the sole purpose of tracing idle or malicious gossip to its source.

http://www.newscientist.com/news/newsletter.jsp?id=ns227617

Satellite radio, by Barry Fox, New Scientist, January 24, 2000

Category: Media

Billions are being spent to try to deliver ad-free radio stations from satellites to moving vehicles.

http://www.newscientist.com/dailynews/news.jsp?id=ns9999354

Scient's Near-Death Experience, by Keith H. Hammonds, Fast Company, February 2001, 43, page 99

Category: Internet

The leaders of Scient Corp. built a thriving, fast-growing consulting firm that owed its very life to the Internet economy. Then the dotcoms imploded -- and many of Scient's customers folded. Here's how the firm is preparing for the next economy.

http://www.fastcompany.com/online/43/scient.html

The State of the Internet, by Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka, Something Aweful, January 15, 20001

Category: Internet

Many people simply assume that the Internet and online advertising is simply a failed venture that cannot ever work. However, nobody is asking the more important questions: why has Internet advertising failed? Can any successful advertising model be implemented that will support online entertainment? What is the future of this market? I'd like to take a brief look at these questions and offer my input regarding the current online advertising crisis which is burning through networks like a wildfire.

http://somethingawful.efront.com/features/stateoftheinternet/

Strategy as Simple Rules, by Kathleen M. Eisenhardt and Donald N. Sull, Harvard Business Review, January-February 2001

Category: General

(Click here for the pdf document)

Ten Passed Technologies, by Nick Montfort, Technology Review, January/February 2001

Category: General

Not every disappearing technology deserves that fate. Sometimes the "losers" have an elegance and simplicity the "winners" lack. Here are ten examples.

http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/jan01/montfort.asp

Text of Napster Ruling, February 12, 2001

Category: Napster/P2P

FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

http://www.lycos.com/news/flash/napstertext.html

Themes and ideas: Communities of practice, Etienne Wenger

Category: General

What if the key to the complex knowledge challenges faced by most organizations today lies in age-old, utterly familiar, and largely informal social structures known today as communities of practice? How would we "manage" knowledge? What shape would a knowledge strategy take?

http://www.ewenger.com/ewthemes.html

Things That Matter: Khmer Kids Link to the Future, by Michael Hawley, Technology Review, January/February 2001

Category: General

As the digital industries grow out of their adolescence, people are beginning to question where these technologies are really taking us. So when an old lab's research themes fade and new ones emerge, folks pay attention. And at the Media Lab, the freshest aims involve domains such as art and human expression, creative societies in developing nations, expeditionary and ecological field efforts, and Media Labs in other countries as an ongoing way to explore creative technology in indigenous contextsÑbold and humane efforts that take computing and communication and any other sort of imaginative technology utterly for granted, like paper or duct tape.

http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/jan01/hawley.asp

The Transparent Society, by David Brin, WIRED, December 1996

Category: Privacy

The cameras are coming. They're getting smaller and nothing will stop them. The only question is: who watches whom?

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/fftransparent.html

Click here to purchase this book from knOwhere, in association with Amazon.com.

Viral Publishing, by Tom Ehrenfeld, The Standard, May 8, 2000

Category: Marketing

Ideas are like viruses, and they can spread at Internet speed. Malcolm Gladwell is learning just how fast with his bestselling book, The Tipping Point.

http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,14701,00.html

Vivendi's High Wireless Act, by Frank Rose ,WIRED, December 2000

Category: Media

CEO Jean-Marie Messier's deals with Vodafone and Seagram were a star turn on the European stage. As information becomes truly portable, a global media company paired with continent-wide distribution may prove an unbeatable combination.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.12/vivendi.html

Wait! Don't Forward That E-Mail, by Julia Scheeres, WIRED News, February 5, 2001

Category: Privacy

A simple JavaScript could make millions of e-mail accounts vulnerable to what basically amounts to illegal wiretapping, a privacy group reported Monday.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/1,1282,41608,00.html

We Have Lift-Off, The Economist, February 1, 2001

Category: Internet

Despite the dot.com crash, despite the job cuts announced this week by Amazon.com, the leading online retailers are big successful businesses. But the path they are following is not the one they first thought of.

http://www.economist.com/business/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=493932

The Wealth of Notions, Top 50 Global Brand Values, Infoporn, WIRED, October 2000

Category: Marketing

What New Economy?, Q&A with Lou Gerstner of IBM , Technology Review, January/February 2001

Category: General

http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/jan01/print_version/gerstner.html

Where Have All the Computers Gone?, By John Seely Brown, Technology Review, January/February 2001

Category: Opportunities

The following document arrived at the offices of Technology Review in a time capsule dated 2020. It purports to be a history of computers written by computer scientist-turned-historian John Seely Brown. In the late 20th century, Dr. Brown served as director of Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center.

http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/jan01/brown.asp

Where in the World?, Alexandra Stikeman, Technology Review, January/February 2001, pg. 34

Category: Opportunities

A new scheme unites the Internet and geography

Where Napster is Taking the Publishing World, by Clay Shirky, Harvard Business Review, February 2001

A review of John Alderman's Sonic Boom: MP3, Napster, and the New Pioneers of Music

Whither Latino E-Commerce?, by Julia Scheeres, WIRED News, Jan. 30, 2001

Category: Opportunities

When the self-proclaimed worldwide Internet commerce authority cancels a conference on Latin America, you know there's trouble.

http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,41498,00.html

Why You Can't Sell What You Buy, by Brad King, WIRED News, January 16, 2001

Category: Napster/P2P

In the digital age, copy protection might not be copy protection.

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,41184,00.html

Winning in a Converging World, by Chris Mole, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Category: Marketing

The speed at which product markets are converging is one of the critical trends in marketing. Market Convergence is forcing reinvention of how companies define themselves and how they compete. A set of six 'convergence capabilities' are emerging as critical to succeeding in a converging world.

http://www.pwcglobal.com/extweb/indissue.nsf/DocID/85C1435BA01326AD852567A10055B3EE

The Wireless Web, Mark Alpert and George Musser, Scientific American, October 2000

Category: Opportunities

  • The Internet in Your Hands
  • The Promise and Perils of WAP
  • The Future is Here. Or is It?
  • The Third-Generation Gap

http://www.sciam.com/2000/1000issue/1000alpert.html

With AOLTV, It's Lonely at the Set Top, by Edmund Sanders

Category: Media

In AOLTV, no one can hear you scream.

http://www.latimes.com/business/columns/techcol/20010125/t000007113.html

You Got the Power, by Howard Rheingold, WIRED, August 2000

Next comes the payoff. A wave of startups is poised to harvest the network's most wasted resource: your idle CPU cycles.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.08/comcomp.html

Your Work is Mine!, by Michael Dertouzos, Technology Review, November/December 2000

Category: Napster/P2P

Let's not hide behind excuses. Napster is an act of aggrression that boasts, "I am entitled to your work for free."

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The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary, by Eric S. Raymond, O'Reilly, 1999. Click here to purchase this book from knOwhere, in association with Amazon.com.
The Cluetrain Manifesto, The End of Business as Usual, Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger, Perseus Books, 2000. Click here to purchase this book from knOwhere, in association with Amazon.com.
The Control Revolution, How the Internet is Putting Individuals in Charge and Changing the World We Know, by Andrew L. Shapiro, Century Foundation, 1999. Click here to purchase this book from knOwhere, in association with Amazon.com.
The End of Privacy, The Attack on Personal Rights - At Home, At Work, On-Line, and In Court, by Charles J. Sykes, St. Martins, 1999. Click here to purchase this book from knOwhere, in association with Amazon.com.
From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure, Access to Information in the Networked World, by Christine L. Borgman, MIT Press, 2000. Click here to purchase this book from knOwhere, in association with Amazon.com.
How Hits Happen, by Winslow Farrell, Harper Business, 1997. Click here to purchase this book from knOwhere, in association with Amazon.com.
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Secrets and Lies, Digital Security in a Networked World, by Bruce Schneier, Wiley, 2000. Click here to purchase this book from knOwhere, in association with Amazon.com.
The Tipping Point, How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, by Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown, 2000. Click here to purchase this book from knOwhere, in association with Amazon.com.

The Transparent Society, Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?, by David Brin, Perseus, 1998. Click here to purchase this book from knOwhere, in association with Amazon.com.

Trust and Risk in Internet Commerce, L. Jean Camp, MIT Press, 2000. Click here to purchase this book from knOwhere, in association with Amazon.com.
The Visionary's Handbook, Nine Paradoxes That Will Shape the Future of Your Business, by Watts Wacker and Jim Taylor, Harper Business, 2000. Click here to purchase this book from knOwhere, in association with Amazon.com.

 

 

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