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The Biggest Ponzi Scheme of Them All 
Tim O'Reilly via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, on Tue, 06 Jan. 2009
Since Bernie Madoff has put Ponzi schemes back onto the front pages, it's worth considering whether we are all complicit in the biggest Ponzi scheme of them all, the idea that the global economy can grow indefinitely.
I grew up on the idea that humanity would grow out i
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O'Reilly Media on Twitter
Tim O'Reilly via O'Reilly Network Articles on Mon, 29 Dec. 2008
Laurel Ruma (@laurelatoreilly) just did a quick census of the number of O'Reilly employees on twitter. She came up with 74 twitter accounts out of about 300 employees worldwide, plus five people who were controlling departmental or project-based O'Reilly twitter accounts like the following: Official O'Reilly account: @oreillymedia: The top level O'Reilly Media site. @oreilly_verlag: O'Reilly Germa
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Google, WalMart, and MyBarackObama.com: The Power of the Real Time Enterprise
Tim O'Reilly via O'Reilly Network Articles on Sat, 27 Dec. 2008
What do Google, WalMart, and MyBarackObama.com have in common, besides their extraordinary success? They are organizations that are infused with IT in such a way that it leads to a qualitative change in their entire business. I get frustrated when I see people highlighting use of social media--blogging, wikis, twitter, customer feedback systems like Dell IdeaStorm or MyStarbucksIdea--as if they...
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Google, WalMart, and MyBarackObama.com: The Power of the Real Time Enterprise
Tim O'Reilly via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, on Sat, 27 Dec. 2008
What do Google, WalMart, and MyBarackObama.com have in common, besides their extraordinary success? They are organizations that are infused with IT in such a way that it leads to a qualitative change in their entire business.
I get frustrated when I see people highlighting use of social media--blogging, wikis, twitter, customer feedback systems like
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Waking Up from the 'Nightmare on Tech Street'
Tim O'Reilly via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, on Mon, 22 Dec. 2008
Reading Om Malik's Nightmare on Tech Street piece, I wonder if we're actually just waking up from the nightmare. Yes, the abrupt collapse of demand for consumer electronics and their ilk will hurt tech companies--I'm bracing my own for the slowdown--but the icy bath that brings down a killing fever trades pain for
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Hard Work and Practice in Programming
Tim O'Reilly via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, on Sat, 20 Dec. 2008
At the Program For the Future event commemorating the 40th anniversary of Doug Englebart's "mother of all demos" in 1968, I was privileged to hear an inspired rant by Alan Kay about the unwillingness of people to work hard to learn
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Register's Googlewashing Story Overblown
Tim O'Reilly via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, on Mon, 15 Dec. 2008
I'm disappointed by the pile-on of people rising to Andrew Orlowski's classic bit of yellow journalism (or trolling, as it's more often referred to today), Google Cranks Up the Consensus Engine. If so many other people weren't taking it seriously, I'd just i
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O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures Invests in Amee
Tim O'Reilly via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, on Fri, 12 Dec. 2008
I'm pleased to announce that on Wednesday, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, our VC affiliate, closed an investment in UK-based Amee, which bills itself as "the world's energy meter." Here's their description of what they do:
AMEE’s aim is to map, measure and track all the energy data on Earth. This includes
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Why I Love Twitter
Tim O'Reilly via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, on Sat, 29 Nov. 2008
If you care what I think, you know that Twitter is just about the best way to learn what I'm paying attention to. I pass along tidbits of O'Reilly news, interesting reading from mailing lists and blogs I follow, and of course, tidbits from the twitterers I'm following. These are all the things I could never find time to put on my blog, but that I sp
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Put change.gov Under Revision Control!
Tim O'Reilly via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
Last week, the New York Times wrote about Changes at change.gov:
The policy section of the transition site was removed without notice just days after Change.gov went live shortly after the election. At the time a spokesman for the Obama-Biden transition effort said they w
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It's Not Over: We are "the change we need."
Tim O'Reilly via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, on Sat, 22 Nov. 2008
Like a lot of people, I was feeling a bit of post-partum letdown after the election. Those of us who were really engaged, following the polls, making calls to undecided voters, arguing out the merits of the candidates, experienced a bit of a vacuum after the election.
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Voice in Google Mobile App: A Tipping Point for the Web?
Tim O'Reilly via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, on Tue, 18 Nov. 2008
As I wrote in Daddy, Where's Your Phone?, it's time to start thinking of the phone as a first class device for accessing web services, not as a way of repurposing content or applications originally designed to be accessed on a keyboard and big screen. The release of
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Daddy, Where's Your Phone?
Tim O'Reilly via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, on Mon, 17 Nov. 2008
I met recently with Vic Gundotra, formerly Microsoft's head of platform evangelism, and now VP of Engineering at Google, responsible for all their mobile efforts outside of Android. We were talking about Google's mobile strategy and the
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What Would Depression 2009 Look Like?
Tim O'Reilly via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, on Mon, 17 Nov. 2008
Boston.com has a really thought-provoking article entitled Depression 2009: What would it look like?. The subtitle answers: "Lines at the ER, a television boom, emptying suburbs. A catastrophic economic downturn would feel nothing like the last one."
This is one of those "Duh!" articles that makes you see the obvious. As the article notes:
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Is a Political Endorsement Appropriate for a Technical Site?
Tim O'Reilly via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, on Mon, 03 Nov. 2008
A number of people have responded to my endorsement of Barack Obama with complaints that it is inappropriate for a tech publisher to publish on political issues. While most of the people responding to the post have either been supportive, or thoughtfully countered one or more of my arguments, a number of people have
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Network Effects in Data
Tim O'Reilly via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, on Mon, 27 Oct. 2008
Nick Carr's difficulty in understanding my argument that cloud computing is likely to end up a low-margin business unless companies find some way to harness the network effects that are the heart of Web 2.0 made me realize that I use the term
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Why Dell.com (was) More Enterprise 2.0 Than Dell IdeaStorm
Tim O'Reilly via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, on Mon, 29 Sep. 2008
In my keynote last week at Web 2.0 Expo New York, I made the comment that, cool as Dell Ideastorm is, the fundamental supply-chain approach behind dell.com is actually a better example of how Web 2.0 applies to the enterprise. I also made the provoca
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Is Google Spreading Itself Too Thin?
Tim O'Reilly via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, on Wed, 24 Sep. 2008
I just read an article entitled Is Google Spreading Itself Too Thin? over at ReadWriteWeb. It repeats the endless canard that Google hasn't built another business yet to rival its initial search franchise.
How dumb is that? No one has built another business on the web to equal Google's i
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Web Meets World
Tim O'Reilly via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, on Mon, 22 Sep. 2008
My talk last week at Web 2.0 Expo in New York was entitled "Web Meets World." I covered this theme from two directions:
The idea that in the future, Web 2.0 "collective intelligence" applications will be driven by sensors rather than people typing on keyboards. What's more, this idea is also key to "enterprise 2.0." Dell's integrated supply chain, which takes real time demand feedba
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Twitter Epigrams and Repartee
Tim O'Reilly via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, on Mon, 08 Sep. 2008
I recently encountered the following zinger on twitter:
@jayrosen_nyu: Scoble is like a guest at a hotel for one, where a huge staff is trying to anticipate his every need. And he's angry.
Shades of noted wits from the past! As when Dorothy Parker, asked to
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