November 13th, 2008
Opening speech yesterday at SIME 08 after Ola handed over by Morten Lund was about some of his personal history, and to me he appears like an compulsory investor, that can’t help but keep going, almost as an addiction to get involved in new things.
He have successfully created much more momentum that he let on; and I was a bit disappointed by the a bit negative or not very forward attitude of his own history. I think Morten Lund should try convey more of the results he achieved, will make a more interesting presentation. But in light of the events that past few months in Morten Lund’s life, many would not keep the spirit up at all…
Take risks - is Morten Lund’s message
Some of the highlights from Morten Lund’s presentation, in light of the current situation in the economy and the outlook for the near future.
- There is a fine line between vision and hallucination.
I think this is very true, you have to be on the border line of crazy to chase dreams and make them into reality, change does not happen by itself, and society and people in general resist change.
Next BIG
Focus is important, and what’s needed to evolve your business ideas into the next BIG thing, Morten Lund emphasized things such as:
- People - You need to work with the right people.
- Network - You need to connect to find the right people.
- Technology, not bleeding edge, proven…
- Timing - You need to know when to do things.
These things have not changed; the same rules apply. The big difference is probably that they are more important than ever.
Some other good quotes from Morten Lund:
- Risk = Return = Impact
- Self confidence, turn doubts into wins.
- Be determined
- Being postive, power of minds.
- Being knowledgable.
- It’s all your fault - Good and bad.
So take risks, and try to change the world, even so little.
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November 12th, 2008
Joi Ito, the CEO of Creative Commons, spoke about Barriers of Innovation and how the layers of the Internet have lowered these. It started with “Getting IBM and McKinsey out of the loop.” was what drove the development to connect and build the Internet infrastructure, and then Sir Tim Berners-Lee, wanted to easily reference related research articles, and all this led to a shift in how content is created, treated and distributed.
Creative Commons
Background, sharing in the old media happens through lawyers meeting to negotiate MUSD content syndication and distribution deals. Old media fights the most expensive thing on the Internet; incoming links and references. New media; sue Google for a billion, get a little bit in settlement.
Creative Commons Licensing
Creative Commons, have 6 different licenses, to simplify legal aspects and sharing for people creating content. This makes it easy for anybody from Obhama or Gwen Stefani to you and me to share things with a predictable copyright legality. Creative commons now also supports the emerging RDFa standard, a standard for semantic markup copyright and licensing.
In summary; Nothing new to most of us, but the ones it affects the most, old media need to change their business models to take advantage of the enormous distribution.
And as I have written about before on this blog, the power of sharing and the power of Open Source is not free, but the result of free over the Internet => distribution.
Some questions for Joi:
- What is really deemed commercial use today? Currencies on the Internet or not always monetary.
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