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Recent U.S. court rulings may change the broad legal shield Web sites have enjoyed against lawsuits filed over material posted by their users, which has allowed the likes of YouTube and MySpace to flourish. The decisions could “inspire a wave” of new lawsuits and “create a chilling effect.”
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9911501-7.html

Harvard Business Review’s annual Top 20 Breakthrough Ideas issue; always a fascinating mix of strange and cool and a little subversive thinking.
The List.

I hope you will be as excited about it as I am.
Read: A Simple Solution to a Big Problem.

Below you can find a collection of current trends in technology by influential industry experts. I am much more interested in anti-trends, powerful forces deriving from cyclicality of markets, and from the curiosity and individualistic tendencies of the human nature.
My top 10 anti-trends for 2008:
1. Simplicity
2. Real world networks
3. Japan and Africa
4. Skinship
5. Mythology
6. Life-style […]

“Innovation is ultimately not an act of intellect but of will,” said Schumpeter. A new book  about innovation teaches us that there needs to me more: passion shall meet humility and discipline. Dreaming in Code is an epic tale about Mitchell Kapor, one of the greatest software entrepreneurs, set on a grand mission: to create […]

“Most people crave recognition, and a world without secrets may actually yield a more forgiving culture, filled with stronger, more informed individuals.”
Esther Dyson
(via Isaac Mao)

Here’s a few selected slides for my GEEK friends from Web2.0 Expo in Berlin:
Eastern European Markets, Trends And Online
presentation from my speech
Lessons In Social
a good overview of best practices in social networking.

What Is Web 2.0?
by Tim O’Reilly.
Scalable Web Architectures
by chief architect of flickr
Open Platforms and the Social Graph
a great presentation by one of the ideologists […]

(by AlwaysOn)
Limited Partners (LPs)
Limited partners are the big, quiet kahunas at the front of the technology finance food chain. Venture capital firms are just one thing they invest in, but they’re what provides most of the money VCs have under management.
1. TIAA-CREF
2. CalPERS
3. CalSTRS
4. Harvard Management Co. (HMC)
5. Yale Endowment
6. […]