Gideon Rosenblatt

Author's details

Name: Gideon Rosenblatt
Date registered: September 6, 2010
URL: http://alchemyofchange.net

Latest posts

  1. The Sole of a Business — February 2, 2012
  2. Quiznos and the Old Business Model — January 26, 2012
  3. When Personal Brands and Corporate Brands Collide — January 25, 2012
  4. Testing G+ WordPress integration — January 20, 2012
  5. Four Ways to Improve Our Online Emotional Intelligence — September 9, 2011

Most commented posts

  1. Twitter is Not a Social Network — 50 comments
  2. The Sole of a Business — 18 comments
  3. “Third-Order” Engagement — 17 comments
  4. Balancing Tasks & Relationships – The Art of Engagement — 12 comments
  5. “Friend Discovery” Revolutionizes How Organizations Collaborate — 12 comments

Author's posts listings

“Square” Pegs Mobile Payments – Round Hole Still Not Filled

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May 27, 2011

Square Up!

The latest issue of Wired has an interview with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey on his latest venture – Square. If you’re not familiar with Square, it’s a simple way for merchants to accept credit card payments through a little device that plugs into their phone. Square has now shipped a half million card readers and is already …

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The Deep Science of Cooperation: Martin Nowak

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May 19, 2011

I'll help you, you help me

If you are interested in cooperative studies or just want to build a more collaborative culture in your place of work, watch the below 20 minute talk by Martin Nowak. It’s based on his (and Roger Highfield’s) new book: SuperCooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed. Nowak starts the talk with an …

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The Mesh: Why the Future of Business is Sharing

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May 17, 2011

We are all one

I just finished reading Lisa Gansky’s The Mesh and there’s much to like about the book. There are a few places where it gets a bit repetitive, but she does share lots of interesting anecdotes and she’s telling an interesting and very important story here – the story of better sharing through technology. The mesh is the …

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Wikipedia Now Crowd-Sourcing Article Ratings

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May 16, 2011

Wikipedia

The Wikipedia community is well aware of the criticisms of its reliability. So that’s why I was so interested today to stumble on a relatively new article rating system within Wikipedia. You can see it in action on the Dan Gillmor page, and here’s a close-up shot of the ratings:   First word of this move …

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Robots Rising…

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May 13, 2011

Small pieces, loosely joined....

We are sitting at the edge of the age of robots. Over the last year, a couple of interesting things happened that will greatly speed up the evolution of robots. Last year, hackers rather quickly figured out that they could reuse a Microsoft Xbox Kinect 3D sensor as a low-cost form of machine vision – …

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Gigwalk – Mechanical Turk Meets Yelp

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May 12, 2011

GigwalkG

The Next Web has an good article on the startup Gigwalk – a kind of Amazon Mechanical Turk meets Yelp or foursquare. It’s an interesting idea, especially in times like these when so many people are looking for incremental, low-barrier income streams. It’s no secret that the rise of mobile devices is creating an explosion …

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Smarter Search

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May 9, 2011

The ever growing brain that is Google...

A couple quick things to point out on Google’s search capabilities these days, that are also some interesting hints at where search is going. The first is a new “sort by subject” feature, which lets you organize your results on image searches based on categories. Say, for example that you do an image search on …

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In Connection We Trust

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May 6, 2011

Small Pieces, Loosely Joined

I just got back from a few days down at The Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) in San Jose, thanks to some coaxing from my friend, Kaliya Hamlin. In this post, I thought I’d share some observations from the trip on the future of the web – and the future of society. A Growing Interest inTrust The issue …

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The Biology of Organizational Intelligence – It’s People

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May 3, 2011

Membranes are people too

The membrane that surrounds the organization and connects it with its external environment is made out of a wonderful layer of humanity. What’s more the number of people involved in helping organizations exchange information with the outside world is radically multiplying and decentralizing.

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The Biology of Great Organizations

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April 26, 2011

Double the Stuff

The boundary between what’s inside and what’s outside the firm is where the future of organizational thinking now lies. The membrane is a powerful metaphor for the way modern organizations connect with people, organizations, and their environment more generally.

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