This is an hour-long video of an announcement at Google of a set of protocols called “Open Social.” I cannot vouch for its economic significance. But any business sociologist ought to watch this to see the way these guys talk, the way they dress, etc.
Pointer from Marc Andreessen, one of the speakers. His blog posts offer additional perspective on the substance of the announcement.
Nov 4 2007
I took a lot of notes on 4 talks given at "MIT on the Road." Unlike the Valley Guys, who think that four new JavaScript function calls constitutes an economic revolution, the MIT folks had lots of interesting things to say. The four big take-aways were: 1. Managing innovation is not like managing projects, so that ...
Nov 2 2007
From a transcript of a panel on reading instruction, here is Dr. Reid Lyon: The biggest impediment to kids’ learning to read is not biological or genetic: it’s instructional. Instructional casualties account for the majority of that 50–60 percent of our poor kids who can’t read. It does not have to be that way...
Nov 2 2007
This is an hour-long video of an announcement at Google of a set of protocols called "Open Social." I cannot vouch for its economic significance. But any business sociologist ought to watch this to see the way these guys talk, the way they dress, etc. Pointer from Marc Andreessen, one of the speakers. His blog p...
READER COMMENTS
Jeff H.
Nov 3 2007 at 5:26am
Eeeesh. A little corny.
Perhaps it’s comforting to see that even a “cool” company like Google falls prey to lame gimmicky presentations–trying to marry technology to a smoky campfire is just weird.
And the first fellow needs to work on not sounding like he just read a book on how to give “dynamite” presentations.
Gary Rogers
Nov 3 2007 at 4:12pm
What do you mean these guys? After all, we cannot all be economists. Had you not mentioned it, I would not even have given a second look to the way anyone in the video talked or dressed. In fact, on giving a second look I don’t see anything unusual. How else do you describe new technology?
As far as the content, I think the technology has awesome potential and look forward to trying it out.
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