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)

Positive feedback loop?

A draft book introduction can now be downloaded here. (Many thanks to Naresh Ramchandani for the PDF cover idea, John Dutton for the photo, and Dan Norris for the design and layout).

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...