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When I sat down in my first economics class at UCLA, the professor wrote on the blackboard all we would learn, in really big letters: SCARCITY I've been blogging for five years as of this month, and here's what I've learned: ABUNDANCE I have discovered I have a lot to give.  And when I give, I notice others give more.  Some of them I've formed relationships with, and trust opens giving, but I have

In two hours, eBay is holding a conference call about buying Skype.  I'm visiting the Skype guys in Tallinn a couple of hours later.  Lot's of folks are scratching their heads.  I have no inside information, nor really want it, but can offer a simple explanation that the market seems to be missing -- that markets are conversations. Pierre Omidyar once explained to me that one of the smartest thing

Notes from a panel at AO on Is the Whole World Going Open Source.  Here is the video and chat archive of the session. Ray Lane Industry being democratized.  Interesting developments from other parts of the world.  Business models changing, the focus of Software CEOs, they know they need to change to something different from a salesperson pitching software for perpetual use.  Top 15 companies repre

One of the most popular sessions at PC Forum was the Roundtable on User-generated Metadata. Moderated by David Weinberger and Esther Dyson, it engaged the former audience in a conversation.  Good thing too, as many of the experts were in the room.  You can see from my raw notes that it covered the topic widely. But the gem was from two comments by JP Rangaswami, CIO of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserste

Chris Anderson at the Media Center seminar.  Starts by reviewing the content of The Long Tail, go read it again.  His presentation used dark red letters, which in a brightly lit room was a demonstration of the long tail, there was abundant knowledge to be read, but it was hard to discover. Distribution of income vs. goods reveals a power-law, a new market beyond the 20% mainstream market.  Every s