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Innovation in Open Networks - Creative Commons, the Next Layer o In the past, organizations under the UN such as CCITT that later became the ITU worked together with governments, telephone companies and their huge research organizations to create enormously complicated standards anticipating every possible problem and building in features for the various constituents represented at in the meetings. After years of deliberation, these standards would be agreed upon and the telephone companies would contract massive projects taking years and millions of dollars to huge vendors who would develop the systems.

Every influential person with large follower numbers interacting online in social media spaces are not doing so in the same way. Social Media Influencers are not Traditional Influencers | Brian

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Going to Extremes to Build App Store Buzz - BusinessWeek Software developers are going to great lengths to get their wares noticed at the Apple ( AAPL ) App Store.

Google Adds Place Ranking System, Should Yelp Be Afraid? In your opinion can Google oust Yelp and Citysearch as the leader in business reviews?

Computerworld - It's that time of the year again, when we all settle in to soak up the warmth of a laptop while admiring the LED shimmering with holiday cheer. And that means it's time for me to take a look at what's going to happen in mobile technology in 2010. Opinion: The year ahead in mobile: Mobile services and fewer pla

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Foursquare Launches Location Check-ins for Facebook

Government 2.0: Five Predictions for 2010-12 - O'Reilly Rad Always on-the-record - When you combine the ideas above (local innovation + citizen 2.0 + mobile as primary + crude content) a fifth prediction emerges. I think that more and more, politicians and government officials will always be on-the-record.

What you plan and execute from headquarters can be either reinforced or undermined by what you don't plan and execute. Transparency is no longer an elective. And any one can create a brouhaha (some 6.6 million people viewed the YouTube video of United Airlines' mishandling of Dave Carroll's guitar , and many more people know the story); or, conversely, anyone can give you a "brand gift"—the same incident viewed from Carroll's brand-view. Brand Control to Major Tom: The New Rules of Brand Management :

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Early today, mobile maven Eldar Murtazin tweeted out the following: Foxconn received order for next generation iphone But when this guy comes along and says that the orders been placed, pretty much all doubt goes out the door. Myxer Launches MobileStage, A Mobile Marketing Platform For The