09/01/2012
Managing Creative Scarcity (Fighting the Unionization of Ideas & Innovation) | Soul United Times
A lot of what we talk about with respect to Internet economics deals with concepts tied to scarcity: The notion that coming off the heels of post-industrialism, demand is still created and/or managed as a result of the inaccessibility - or limited...
09/01/2012
"Owner:" Popular Gen Y Job Title on Facebook | Inc.com | Soul United Times
Forget teacher or assistant, among those aged 18 to 29 on Facebook, owner is a more popular job title, underlining the strong connection between this generation and entrepreneurship.
08/01/2012
Transact Socially - The Social Payment System | Soul United Times
The Social Payment System - buy & sell In exchange for a Tweet or a Facebook post!
08/01/2012
Code Year | Soul United Times
Make 2012 the year you learn to code!...
07/01/2012
Open Source Creativity - Hackerspaces | Soul United Times
Inspired in part by the open source movement, public spaces are emerging where people congregate to share ideas, make cool projects, teach, and brainstorm wi...
07/01/2012
Introduction to OpenIDEO / OpenIDEO.com | Soul United Times
A short animated film introducing OpenIDEO, an online community where people can create solutions to some of the world's toughest challenges. http://openideo...
04/01/2012
How crowdsourcing is changing science - The Boston Globe | Soul United Times
Want to help cure AIDS, decipher ancient texts, and spot new galaxies? Now you can.
04/01/2012
File Sharing Is Now an Official Religion In Sweden | Soul United Times
Rejoice, brothers! File sharing is now an official religion in Sweden. For real. It took two years, but it's done: it's called the Missionary Church of Kopimism and has Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V as its sacred symbols.
28/12/2011
Occupy Geeks Are Building a Facebook for the 99% | Soul United Times
Geeks in Occupy Wall Street think it's time to build open versions of the social networking tools they've used to gather support and get out their message. Think Facebook for the dedicated 99%.
20/12/2011
MIT to Offer Certificates to Students Taking Free Courses on the Web | Soul United Times
It happens at least a few times a day. Students look through our list of 400 Free Online Courses, and ask us whether they can get a certificate for taking a class.
17/12/2011
Public Libraries, 3D Printing, FabLabs and Hackerspaces | Soul United Times
We want to see 3D printing, FabLabs and Hackerspaces become a regular feature--in addition to its other services--at every public library in the country. Thi...
17/12/2011
The 10 key skills for the future of work | Soul United Times
A nonprofit research center that specializes in long-term forecasting recently released a report detailing the 10 key skills that will be relevant to the workforce of the future. What are they, and are our schools doing enough to instill them?