The revolution: name it and own it?
What do the following pieces of jargon have in common?
- free software
- open source software (OSS, FOSS)
- open content
- Internet communities
- Web 2.0
- strong collaboration
- mass collaboration
- collaborative revolution
- crowdsourcing
(Can you add to this list?)
Answer: they are all used to describe the phenomenon of a bunch of people working together online, in open communities, to create specific bodies of free information, like open source software, Citizendium, Wikipedia, YouTube, Flickr, Slashdot, Web forums and mailing lists, and so forth. Granted, they each mean something slightly different. Internet geeks can expound on the differences and meanings at great length.
What name will win out in the long run? Or does that question not make sense — are we really dealing with many significantly different phenomena here, which really need all these different descriptors?
Yep. I can add…
Game-commerce
We own it.
Comment by Alex — May 14, 2008 @ 6:57 am
One more to add: Open standards
Without standards, no collaboration.
Comment by Thomas Bonte — May 15, 2008 @ 10:27 am
Could it be that it will be endless like the number of stars in the universe? Maybe some definitions will continue to evolve just as technology does building on previous versions based on the perspective and cultural experiences of those who create them. Thus they gain new meaning indefinitely.
Comment by Gibran — May 16, 2008 @ 3:30 pm
Mass Collaboration, Social Networking, Wikis, Folksonomies, Open Source, Prosumers, Networked Intelligence, Crowd Sourcing, Crowd Wisdom, Smart Mobs, Peer Production, Lightweight Collaboration, Emergent Intelligence, Social Production, Self-Organized Communities, Collective Genius, Loose Networks of Peers, Collaborative Infrastructures, Open platforms, Wiki Workplace, Open Innovation, Horizontal Networks, Collective Intelligence, Global Innovation Networks, Swarm Intelligence, Decentralized Collaboration, Participatory Culture.
Comment by Ryan Schultz — May 21, 2008 @ 8:02 am
oops… wikinomics.
Comment by Ryan Schultz — May 21, 2008 @ 8:04 am