
What is going on with LinkedIn?
Some co-workers and I were studying the Alexa and Compete scores of popular social networking sites yesterday and I was shocked to see LinkedIn traffic dwarfed by Facebook, Google and MySpace. I include Google, because according to Jeremiah Owyang (and I agree), Google is building a stealth social network by linking all of it’s web […]

IBM Public Policy Prediction Markets: Collective Wisdom on Education, Transportation, Energy and Healthcare
IBM recently launched its Smarter Cities initiative. Part of its overall SmarterPlanet project, Smarter Cities is an effort to find solutions to the problems that will occur due to our ever-increasing population growth in urban centers around the world: In 1900, only 13% of the world’s population lived in cities. By 2050, that number will […]