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Mapping the Networks of Business

Posted in Emergence, Ideas on October 24, 2003 | Leave a Comment »

Through the years, I’ve seen more “value chains” than I care to remember. “Where do you see yourselves in the value chain?”, is a VC question ranking up there with “Are you burning enough?” and “Would you people consider yourselves to be a [fill in the blank: infrastructure, content-only, aggregator, consolidator, etc.] company?” [...]

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Man or a mouse

Posted in Emergence on September 24, 2003 | 1 Comment »

Few things amuse me more than pointing out to people how predictable we humans are. Our imprinted view of ourselves as almost not a part of the animal kingdom is of course very arrogant. Our animal-like behavior is however often quite apparent and one of the best examples is in crowd movement. Pictures from [...]

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And there was a map…

Posted in Emergence on September 11, 2003 | Leave a Comment »

Collective intellect (or stupidity) has always fascinated me and the Web allows curious people to test many such concepts with ease. Such interest was in part the reason for making my Are you random? test. Now, Douwe Osinga has come up with a brilliant collective mind project, where Internet users try to draw a map [...]

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