JP on Gamification, Lipstick and Pigs

And here is another fantastic talk by JP Rangaswami, Chief Scientist Salesforce.com (twitter @jobsworth) on the gamification of companies and why this can’t be something superficial like putting lipstick on a pig. Was looking for a transcript, did not find it, so decided to do it myself. Below a summary of JP’s talk. Hope I [...]

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Innotribe at Sibos 2010: Gen-Y and The Future of Money

Cross-posted on Swiftcommunity.net Matteo may have been a bit over-enthusiastic when he declared his session "probably the best session at Sibos 2010" . I guess he may have been unaware of something very special that is happening in the context of the Innovation Keynote Sessions of Monday 25 Oct 2010 at 9am . What’s going [...]

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Social Currency: My Personal Identity

Recently came across this great site by Dan Robles. One of his latest posts Will Social Capitalism Replace Market Capitalism? (Parts 1&2) included great video material on how social currency can change industries. His forecasting example is the airline industry. And it’s even not so far fetched. What if you could “Time-Share” seats in private [...]

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Becoming Better Builders

This is about an amazing idea of a 23-year young big thinker who created a fantastic community on-line and almost by accident stumbled upon a new platform for on-line communication that could change our world. I stumbled upon this absolutely great video of a speech given by Vanessa Miemis in NYC during the Social Business [...]

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Identity Rights System 3.0

Next week, SWIFT Innotribe will be hosting the European eID Interoperability Conference 2010. It’s a great agenda with presentations by European experts on eID, and also some of the smartest SWIFT folks on identity. For example, we’ll have Jacques Hagelstein, our Chief Architect, and we’ll also run an Innotribe Lab on day-2. Check out and [...]

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Maslow for Stakeholder Relations

If you have any role in Stakeholder Relations (in some companies this is called “PR” and/or “Investor Relations” and/or “HR”), i can recommend reading Chip Conley’s book “Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow” Conley, the CEO and founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, turned to psychologist Abraham Maslow’s iconic Hierarchy of Needs. [...]

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Google Wave integrations for the Enterprise

Interesting blog straight from the Enterprise 2.0 Conference taking place this week in San Francisco. Wish i was there :-/ Integrations by SAP, Thoughtworks, and Novell. Boy, and knowing there are still people who don’t believe Wave is going to happen big time. Watch till the end, where there is an BPEL export of the [...]

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Energy from Passionate Creatives

Fantastic blog by Hutch Carpenter about The Passionate Creatives. His blog is always quality. Always new content. Feeling deeply the pulse of the Enterprise 2.0 wave. A lot in Hutch’s blog post reminded me about the book – The Cultural Creatives – How 50 million people are changing the world. By Paul H. Ray & [...]

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Privacy is dead

This blog post is triggered by a start-up demonstration i saw at DEMOFall2009 some weeks ago. The demo was about an iPhone application called “datecheck” aka “creepfinder” You can find the video here. Not that i am interested in on-line or real-life dating – i am happily married – but in essence the application allows [...]

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Social Volume Knob

Also all hyped up by “The Wisdom of Crowds” and “We are smarter than Me” ? Time for some anti-dose Two articles about some recent studies done on this subject. One from ReadWriteWeb and one from MIT Technology Review. It’s again from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). The author professor Vassilis Kostakos pokes a big hole [...]

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