Small is the Next Big Thing

The wisdom of clouds

Leading blog search-engine Technorati has just re-designed its home page. Founder and CEO Dave Sifry explains that the new layout is based on “using the wisdom of crowds as a mirror on ourselves”.

links for 2007-05-04

• CouchSurfing
  An interesting example of the internet’s geography of passion. A hybrid physical/virtual community where people track down likeminded individuals across the world, creating greater common understanding through cultural exchange in the process.
  (tags: community collaboration)

Built to shrink

Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and a number of other firms are currently fighting it out to buy Dutch banking group ABN Amro for around £45 billion.

A virtual world

Long-held precepts of Big and Small have been at the heart of conventional business wisdom since the industrial revolution.

What's the big idea?

Businesses should have a defining core idea, a purpose, an ideology, a raison d’être. There’s a lot of evidence to show that the ones that do out-perform the ones that don’t.

The democratization of philanthropy

Among the many fascinating talks at TED 2007, Katherine Fulton, president of social consulting firm Monitor Institute, gave an overview of what she called “The democratization of philanthropy”.

Her talk confirmed that some key Small-Big trends are not just fundamentally altering traditional commerce but making an equally significant impact on the business of non-profits...